Apple Mini-Muffins

Loaded with apples, toasted pecans, pineapple, and coconut, these moist Apple Mini-Muffins are delicious for breakfast or an anytime snack! As an added bonus, they’re easy to make and freeze beautifully.

Ingredients for Apple Mini-Muffins

The ingredients for these little gems include unsalted butter, vegetable oil, egg, granulated sugar, light brown sugar, milk, vanilla extract, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, baking soda, salt, all-purpose flour, apples, fresh lemon juice, toasted pecans, crushed pineapple, shredded coconut.

Making the Apple Mini-Muffins:

For starters, using a pastry brush, I greased the wells of my mini-muffin pan with butter, and set the pan aside. I also shredded the peeled and cored apple, tossed it with lemon juice, and set it aside.

Then, I beat the butter, oil, egg, granulated sugar, light brown sugar, milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and nutmeg on high until everything was well incorporated. This took a minute or so. The mixture was quite liquidy.

I sifted in the baking soda and salt, and beat the mixture for about 5 seconds. Then, I dumped in the flour, and stirred the mixture with a wooden spoon just until the flour was incorporated.

Next, I added the shredded apples that I had tossed with the lemon juice, toasted pecans, crushed pineapple that I had drained well, and coconut, and stirred to combine everything.

Using a 1¾-inch ice cream scoop, I filled the wells of the mini-muffin pan about ¾ full.

Into a preheated 375° F oven the mini-muffins went for about 18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center came out clean. I let the mini-muffins cool for a minute or so before turning them out onto a wire rack to cool.

I ended up with 3-dozen incredibly moist and delicious Apple Mini-Muffins that were loaded with the goodness of apples, toasted pecans, pineapple and coconut. Yum!

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Apple Mini-Muffins

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

20 mins

Total Time

35 mins

 

Loaded with apples, toasted pecans, pineapple, and coconut, these moist Apple Mini-Muffins are delicious for breakfast or an anytime snack! As an added bonus, they’re easy to make and freeze beautifully.

Course: Bread, Brunch, Mother's Day

Cuisine: American

Servings: 36 mini muffins

Calories: 69 kcal

Author: Chula King

Ingredients

• 1 (8-ounce) Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored and shredded (about 1-1/2 cups)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick, 2 ounces, 56 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 large egg room temperature
• 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup (3.5 ounces, 99 grams) granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup (1.85 ounces, 52 grams) firmly packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup (4 ounces) milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup (2 ounces, 56 grams) chopped pecans, toasted
• 4 ounces 1/2 of an 8-ounce can) crushed pineapple drained with excess juice squeezed out (1/4 cup, 2 ounces, 56 grams)
• 1/2 cup (1.5 ounces, 43 grams) shredded sweetened coconut

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375º F.
2. Grease wells of mini-muffin pan or line with mini cupcake papers; set aside.
3. Combine shredded apples and lemon juice in small bowl; set aside.
4. In a large bowl, beat together butter, egg, oil, granulated sugar, brown sugar, milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and nutmeg until all ingredients are incorporated.
5. Sift in baking soda and salt; beat for several seconds until incorporated.
6. Add flour; stir just until combined.
7. Add shredded apples, toasted pecans, pineapple, and coconut; stir just until combined.
8. Fill mini-muffin wells 3/4-full. Bake in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the mini-muffins comes out clean.
9. Cool completely on wire rack.

10. Yield: 3 dozen.

Nutrition Facts

Apple Mini-Muffins

Amount Per Serving

Calories 69 Calories from Fat 27

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 3g 5%

Saturated Fat 2g 10%

Cholesterol 8mg 3%

Sodium 69mg 3%

Potassium 26mg 1%

Total Carbohydrates 8g 3%

Sugars 5g

Vitamin A 1.1%

Vitamin C 0.5%

Calcium 0.8%

Iron 1.5%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.