So apple-picking season is over, are you tired of them yet? Why not turn them into something different, like these light, sweet muffins?
This is probably the recipe that started my baking kick. I had an apple lying around and it was getting a little old, but I didn’t want to throw it away. A little light bulb went on it my head and then poof, muffins! This recipe works equally well with firm, fresh apples.
I tend to look up recipes from various places and than make changes in order to adjust them to my taste. It can be adding a bit more of an ingredient to enhance the flavor or just more baking powder so they get fluffier. These muffins however, were perfect from the original recipe.
You might think combining blueberries and cinnamon is a little weird, which I agreed with until I tried these. The only thing I would mention is that it tones down the blueberry flavor a good bit. Not a problem though, because if you want straight-up blueberry muffins, these are great even without the topping.
You should still try them with the topping at least once though, it’s really awesome 🙂 .
There’s something that just works when you combine lemon and poppy seeds. This recipe also uses yogurt, which really brings out the lemon’s tangy flavor.
If you’ve got your hands on some lemon extract, these are also really quick and easy to make.
I came across this recipe while I was desperately searching for a good spice muffin recipe. All the ones I found were weak and unimpressive, so I tried finding a recipe that used really different ingredients instead. The result was not at all what I was looking for, but great nonetheless.
I call these “cinnamon doughnut muffins” because they have a more dense texture than regular muffins, and in combination with the cinnamon and sugar topping, they remind me of good old-fashioned doughnuts.
Aside from the fact that they taste awesome, I really love these because they’re easy to make and you just about always have everything you need on hand to make them.
If you’re anything like me you’ve probably been tempted for the better part of the summer every time you walk into a grocery store and see watermelons on sale. I was wondering if watermelon would lend itself well to baking, and after a bit of googling I found out that it does. The common consensus is that watermelon has a pretty weak flavour, so unfortunately you can’t get actual watermelon-flavoured muffins using natural ingredients.
While these muffins indeed don’t taste that much like watermelon, I think they have a really funky and different flavour that makes them one of my new favourite recipes.
