As you can see I have a glut of Apples and I’m cooking and baking with them constantly right now. These Apple Crisp Breakfast Muffins are sweet but a lot of the sweetness comes from the fruit and not sugar. Having said that the crispy topping is not so healthy but I imagine that these muffins will be eaten on the weekend when everyone deserves a treat.
Ingredients
- 2 large cooking apples
- 250g of plain flour
- 50g of dark brown soft sugar
- pinch of salt
- half a heaped teaspoon of ground ginger
- half a heaped teaspoon of ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 1 egg, beaten
- 100g unsalted butter, cut in to small pieces
- 200ml of semi skimmed milk
For the topping
- heaped tablespoon of plain flour
- heaped tablespoon of jumbo oats
- heaped tablespoon of dark soft brown sugar
- 50g of unsalted butter
- half a teaspoon of cinnamon
- 50g of chopped pecans
Pre-heat the oven to 180c
Peel and cut both of the apples in to small pieces. Set aside.
Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and ginger together.
Mix in the butter to create a crumble
Add the beaten egg and mix
Add the milk and mix
Fold the chopped apple in gently so as not to crush the apple pieces
Grease a large muffin tin and spoon the mixture in to the tin dividing equally
The topping
Crumble together the flour, oats, sugar, butter and cinnamon and then mix in the chopped pecans
Sprinkle the topping over the top of each filled muffin case
Bake in the oven for approx thirty mins or until a knife comes out clean
Wait ten mins before removing the muffins from the tin
Breakfast on the weekend can be an occasion. If you have guests staying or you just want to treat the people you live with, waking up to a planned breakfast on a Saturday morning can be a lovely thing. Before the kids go off to their clubs and before you head out to the shops, to be able to stop just for twenty minutes and enjoy a quick muffin, either outside or at the table, is something we don’t often give ourselves the opportunity to do. It’s not too late to feel the sun on your face.
These particular muffins are all about the smell they create while they are baking. Seriously, when I made these the smell went right up the stairs and filled the house. It’s that autumnal baking smell of cinnamon and sugar mixed up in the hot oven that never fails to make me feel like I’m in exactly the right place and doing exactly the right thing no matter what else is going on around.
It’s cosy.
How much power does the word ‘cosy’ hold?
A lot.
When a place or an event is cosy it means you never want to leave and if you have to then you want to take that feeling with you and create it wherever you are. I’ve known many homes that are cosy but I’ve also known many desks in offices, many shops on the high street, many gardens, many streets that are cosy and I’ve even been lucky enough to know people that are cosy. You know those people too don’t you? They are people who wrap you up in their personalities and make you feel like you never want to leave them. They invite you in to their generosity of spirit and make you want to be a better person. We create cosy. We give it. We share it. We grow in it.
THAT is the power of cosy.
I’m glad I’ve got that off my chest.
Have a fantastic weekend. I’m working on my own sort of cosy right now. Getting sorted and enjoying purging the house of huge amounts of stuff that I’ve accumulated and never sorted before moving house.
But I’ll be making time for breakfast too. My twins love these muffins and I allow them as a treat because they tend to eat their veggies, after they’ve squished those veggies all over their faces, their hair and me!
I love you and thank you so much for reading.
Cherry x
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Hi Cherry,
How many muffins does this recipe make?
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Hello Cherry,
This is the same kind of question I already asked about the cookies. I love to bake and I really want my daughter to enjoy it with me. Do you think I could replace the milk with water and still have good muffins? How much olive oil should I use instead of the butter.
Thanks
Véronique
Absolutely delicious! I wish I could think up such great recipes, but at least I can cook them! everybody thought they were delicious, so thanks for sharing Cherry. I love what you do x
Cherry, these muffins look simply divine! Do you have a chart that converts grams into cups and oven temps into degrees? I googled how many grams equals a cup, but there were several different answers depending on what type of food… please help this confused American make your wonderful muffins! Thanks!
Yvonne,
I found a converter, and these are quantities I’m going to use:
250g of flour = 2.5 cups
50g of brown sugar = 1/4 cup
100g of butter = 1/2 cup
200ml milk = 7 ozs.
180C = 356F
I think the conversions look right, but if someone else who is more familiar with English to US conversions has better information, please let us know.
Marilyn (in Dallas)
Those look very good! I love apple crisp, so apple crisp in a muffin could not help but be good!
Although I said earlier that I have not met any “cosy” people in my life time, I should have mentioned that my hubby and myself met someone about 30 years ago who has become our ultimate best friend- He is absolutely amazing, he’s funny, kind, thoughtful, compassionate and he certainly wraps us up in love! We are oh so grateful to have met him as we have never found anyone else quite like him, he is absolutely unique and we absolutely thank God for him!
He was with us when we had some terrible things happened to us some years ago, (done to us by some really cold-hearted and selfish people). He helped us through the terrible experience; he never left our side for one second.
So yes here’s to lovely warm and loving “best friends”
Cherry,
I agree with the other posters. This blog and, of course, you and your family, are the pure definition of cozy. Reading your blog is like getting a warm hug from a good friend, and that’s a great, great feeling!
Those muffins look wonderful. I particularly love baking with apples, so I will be making them tomorrow. Can’t wait!
One quick question for you, or your readers. What is semi skim milk? Is that what we call in the US, 1% or 2% milk?
Thanks!
Marilyn (in Dallas)
I’ve never met any “cosy” people in my life time, only very, very cold, selfish and hardhearted people, sad but true, but I still live in hope that one day I might! lol
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The word cosy, is very descriptive of it’s meaning isn’t it. I love the word and I love being cosy.
Lovely muffins by the way!
Dear Cherry, there are apples dropping into the chickens yard-huge 60″x30″-they are spoiled (chickens not apples) and they love them! Also the milk bottles remind me of my first experience with Blue Tits. Our neighbors had arranged for the milk float to deliver our first silver top bottles. We were 1 of 2 American families living in Byfield near Banbury. The next morning all the tops of the bottles had been punctured and the cream gone! I was so upset, thinking someone didn’t like us USAers. But our darling friends explained it was the Blue Tits being rascals! We used a brick after that, the driver placed it on the bottles, no more vandals!
They look very yummy! I love apple pastry!
I love cosy!! And I love muffins so this is a great post for me! I love making muffins for breakfast and will definitely be giving these a try
x
Hi Cherry. I was going to add as others have that cosy is the feeling I get when reading your blog which is the reason I find it hard to drag myself away from here.
I think this is another lovely apple recipe. I was hoping for a quiet weekend after last weeks party for my little boy (racing car cake came out really well by the way and party was great fun). So I’ve decided to have a baking weekend and they’re all your recipes, Banana Bread, Jam cookies, Apple Bread and now the above recipe. Also want to cook the slow roast lamb as having a couple of r
friends around tomorrow night. Not sure if I’ll manage it all but you never know.
Also the storage idea earier in the week was great as cake cases are usually squashed and lost in the back of the cupboard or fall on me as soon as I open the door. If you have anymore fab storage ideas like this please let us know as I’m sure there are others on here who like me desperately need to sort they’re houses out.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend xxx
I made these this afternoon with my 2 year old using apples from our garden. They are delicious. I am having to resist eating the topping from all the remaining muffins. Jacqueline – I got a crate of 6 mini milk bottles here – http://www.dotcomgiftshop.com/school-milk-bottles-crate.
totally agree with Amy’s post – your blog and lovely pics always cheer me up and make me feel the world is a lovely safe place – how nice you are giving this to your family ad to all of us avid readers! x
Yes I agree Amy, Cherry is cosy, and her blog is cosy!
I would just like to point out that YOU are one of those “cosy people”, Cherry! It’s why I return to your website day after day – - because it makes me feel warm, good, happy and wrapped up in a hug!
(and the muffins look AH-mazing!)
These look super scrummy. I’ve made Apple Cake before, from Sarah Raven’s Kitchen Garden Cookbook, which is also a delicious way to use up apples. Love your photos and stripy straws!
Sally x
It looks very delicious… I can try this recipe tomorrow, thank you….
Happy Weekend…
Hi Cherry – these look great. I made the apple bread last weekend. As I don’t have apple trees in my garden, I bought 2 large cookers, which I have come to realise were obviously MUCH bigger than the 2 large cookers I might have gathered from a tree in the garden. There was A LOT of apple and I threw it all in rather gung-ho. Husband sniffed it out before it was even in the oven, and it tasted great, but fell apart quite a bit when I sliced it as there was so much fruit. Still, i’m not deterred, i’ll just use less next time.
My Mum’s house is cosy – just because it’s where I grew up – no other reason. I really hope one day if I have kids, they’ll feel like that about where we live. I also finds walks in the forest very cosy at this time of year – all the rustling leaves and being wrapped up in the first few wears of a woolly jumper.
Take care,
Bex.x
They’re baking in the oven right now and the smell is incredible! Can’t wait to taste them! Thanks for the recipe
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THis is a great post, I would love to be eating one of thoes right now. Thanks for answering my question from yesterday too
lots of love laura x
Mmmmmm….I can smell that cosy cinnamony smell now. Thanks for the recipe. I will make them over the week-end.
I’ve been doing some purging too. I seem to be experiencing a surge of energy lately…must be the change of season. Have a great week-end with your family Cherry.
oh and forgot to add, I love cosy!
and hope with all my heart that thats how people feel around me, mine and my home.
xxx
guess what I’m making tomorrow………lovely post as always Cherry,
BUT PLEASE TELL ME AND OTHERS WHO WILL NO DOUBT ASK, WHERE OH WHERE DID YOU GET THE MILK BOTTLES AND HOLDER FROM??????
enjoy the autumnal weekend everyone, and as always
love to you Cherry, Robert, the cutie twins and all the family
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Hello
I picked them up from a stall at an autumn fair I went to on Wednesday night. I’m pleased as I hadn’t seen them before. Cx
mmm. scrummy. I could do with one of those right now. Where did you get the vintage style straws? I’ve been looking for some but have had no luck.
Did you get my tweet re the lights? Mine arrived today, and I am slightly disappointed. The lights are fine, but a bit too clunky for the bays, and the wire – far too thick! I have no chance of trailing them under the door the way I normally do, the door won’t shut! So, off to Dunelm-mill this weekend for me, they have some with thinner wire. I can find another home for the new ones, probably indoors.
Have a lovely weekend. We’re off Christmas shopping in Colchester tomorrow. Can’t wait!
x
Aren’t they gorgeous! I would love to know where to find them too
xx