Apple (Chocolate Chip) Muffins

28th Oct, 2012

This is one more of my attempt to bake with apples. Instead of making the usual Apple pie, I wanted to make something that would make my boys happy. When I was talking to one of my dear friend, she mentioned that she has a very good recipe for Apple cake. She mailed the recipe to me right away and here I am couple of weeks later, made her recipe and awfully happy with it. Thanks Marybeth for the awesome recipe.

I made half the muffins with just the apples and to the other half I added the chocolate chips, only to please my dear husband. It was job well accomplished. He loved the muffins with the chocolate chips. The recipe also called for nuts, which I did not add.

Ingredients- (Makes about 18 large or 36 mini muffins)

• Apples (any cooking variety) – 3 cups (chopped)
• All purpose flour – 2 cups
• Vegetable Oil – 1cup
• Eggs – 2
• Sugar – 1 cup
• Baking soda – 1 tsp
• Cinnamon – 2 tsp
• Salt – ½ tsp
• Vanilla – 2 tsp
• Chocolate chip – 1 cup (optional)
• Nuts (walnuts, pecans or any nut of your choice) – ½ cup (optional)

Procedure –

• Preheat the oven to 325 F.
• Sift the flour with baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Keep aside.

• In another bowl, beat the eggs well and then add the sugar, vegetable oil and the vanilla to it. Mix well.

• Now add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and stir until well blended. 

• Fold in the chopped apples, chocolate chips and nuts. In my case, I added the apples first, then filled half of my muffin pans and then added about ½ cup of chocolate chip to the remaining batter and then filled the remaining molds. 

 

• Bake for about 35 mins at 325 F.
• Check if done by inserting a tooth pick to the center of the muffins. If the tooth pick comes out clean, then the muffins are done. 

• Remove them from the muffin pans and cool completely on a wire rack.

Variations-

To make the recipe low fat, you could use this substitution instead of 1 cup of oil.

• ½ cup oil
• Less than ½ a cup of yogurt
• 3 tbsps of applesauce. 

Apple Muffins 

 

Apple Muffins with chocolate chip

Check out my other Apple Recipes here !!!

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"60 Days To Christmas"  

 

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