Spiced Apple Brown Butter Muffins
Makes 16-18 muffins
Equipment
- 2 Muffin tins with liners. (if you only have one tin thats ok! You will just need to do two batches).
- Medium bowl
- Whisk
- Small Pan
- Small Bowl
- Wire rack
Ingredients
Crumble topping
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup packed dark brown sugar
- ⅓ cup old fashioned oats
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- 1 stick 4oz unsalted butter melted and cooled slightly
Batter
- 1 stick 4oz unsalted butter
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 2 cups small diced golden delicious apples about 2 apples
- 2 tsp all purpose flour
- Powdered sugar for dusting, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line two muffin tins with liners (if you only have one tin thats ok! you will just need to do two batches).
- First prepare the crumble. In a medium bowl, whisk flour, brown sugar, oats, cinnamon and kosher salt. Pour in melted butter, and mix using a fork to fully incorporate the butter into the dry ingredients. Break up the mixture with the fork to create a crumble texture. Set aside.
- Next prepare the batter. In a small pan over medium low heat, add butter and melt.
- Whisk butter continuously until the butter has browned. Keep an eye on it as this can happen quick!
- Once the butter is brown, immediately transfer to a large bowl. Let cool 5 minutes.
- Add brown sugar to the large bowl with the browned butter and whisk until incorporated.
- Add in eggs and whisk until homogenous. (work quick here as the butter may be still warm and we don’t want to cook the egg!)
- Whisk in applesauce, buttermilk and vanilla. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk 1 3/4 cup flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves and salt.
- Add dry into the wet and mix until just moistened. It’s ok if there are a few clumps. Don’t over mix 🙂
- Toss apples with 2 tsp flour. Fold apples into the batter.
- Fill muffin tin with batter about 2/3 of the way up.
- Top each muffin with a generous amount of crumble topping.
- Bake muffins for 25-30 minutes until muffins are puffed, golden, and a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffin comes out clean (a few moist crumbs are ok!).
- Let muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Remove muffins to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with powdered sugar if desired!
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
These were delicious! Definitely making them again!
The instructions were also easy to follow along, thanks Hailee!