This great apple muffin recipe from Shaun Rankin is lightly spiced and these muffins make a great mid-morning snack. They are best served slightly warm accompanied by a frothy cappuccino. The addition of diced apple and plump golden sultanas gives a moist muffin that will last a few days in a sealed tin. This apple muffin recipe is wonderful to make for breakfast or brunch

Apple muffin recipe

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Easy

30 minutes

6

Method
1.
Preheat the oven to 190˚C/Gas mark 5 and place 12 muffin cases in a muffin tray
2.
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and sugar
3.
Peel, core and dice the apples. In a separate bowl, beat the egg and stir in the milk. Add the oil, melted butter and stir in the diced apple
4.
Add the wet mixture into the dry and combine well. Stir through the golden sultanas
5.
Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases and sprinkle the tops with brown sugar
6.
Bake in the oven for 20 minutes until lightly brown. They should spring back when pressed. Allow to cool slightly before eating
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Ingredients

  • 225g of plain flour
  • 3 tbsp of baking powder
  • 1 tsp of salt
  • 1 tsp of ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp of ground nutmeg
  • 1 tsp of ground ginger
  • 100g of caster sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 150ml of milk
  • 3 tbsp of sunflower oil
  • 40g of unsalted butter
  • 170g of Granny Smith apple, peeled and diced
  • 70g of golden sultanas
  • 3 tbsp of light brown sugar

Equipment

  1. Muffin tin
  2. 12 muffin cases

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This apple muffin recipe from famed chef Shaun Rankin makes a delightful and impressive snack - an apple muffin recipe to make again and again

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Gemma
I left the sultanas out and used 2 whole apples (170g made for one and a half), which gave the muffins a lovely fresh and sharp flavour. I also didn't have any brown sugar to sprinkle on top of the muffins. The recipe was spot on, 20 minutes after putting in the oven I had 12 spiced apple muffins!
14 August 2012
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