Glazed Apple Fritter Muffins
Apples and cinnamon tucked into a light cakey muffin. Almost a cupcake, but not quite! Recipe adapted from Kim Lange’s Country Apple Fritter Muffins
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 Cup Softened Unsalted Butter
- 2/3 Cup White Granulated Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 Cups Flour
- 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1/2 Cup Whole Milk
- 3 Apples, peeled and chopped into bite sized pieces
Cream Cheese Frosting/Glaze
- 4 Ounces of Softened Cream Cheese
- 2 Tablespoons/ 1/4 A Stick of Butter
- 1 Cups Confectioner’s Sugar
- 1/8 Cup Heavy Cream or Half-and-Half
Instructions
- Prepare Cupcake/Muffin Tray with liners or spray with baking spray.
- Peel and cut apples into bite sized pieces.
- Mix Brown Sugar and Cinnamon into a separate bowl and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar in the mixer until light and fluffy.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time.
- Add vanilla extract.
- Add flour, baking powder until blended. Batter will be thick.
- Add milk until batter is incorporated.
- Layer in each muffin tin a spoonful of batter each, about 1/3 full.
- Add approximately 1 Tablespoon of chopped apples. Pat into batter.
- Sprinkle a layer brown sugar/cinnamon mixture.
- Repeat with remaining batter, apples, ending with brown sugar/cinnamon mixture.
- Bake at 350* for 25 minutes (maybe more- these are very full muffin cups).