Apple Pie Muffins

by Cheryl
(Ontario)

1 1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar
2/3 cup vegetable oil (or corn oil or canola oil)
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
2 cups peeled, diced apple
3/4 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Topping – cinnamon sugar – white sugar with cinnamon in shaker bottle

1. Preheat oven to 325 F.
2. Grease and flour muffin tins (or line with papers).
3. Combine brown sugar, oil, vanilla and egg.
4. Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk to mixture, stirring until just combined. Fold in apple and pecans.
5. Place batter in tins, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
6. Bake for 25 minutes or until tops spring back.
7. Remove from pans and cool.


Makes 24 muffins

Alternative:
Substitute 1 1/2 to 2 cups mixed fruit peel for the chopped apple. Dredge the peel in a little of the flour from the recipe. You can also divide the batter in half and add 1 cup chopped apples to one half and 1 cup mixed fruit peel to other half.