Recipe Name
Apple Crunch Muffins
Serves: many ppl
Calories: umm...a lot i guess
Prep Time: about an hour or less
Occasion: Any
Effort: Easy

Ingredients:

Nut Crunch Topping:

  1. 1 1/2 C  Flour, unbleached; sifted
  2. 1/2 C  Sugar
  3. 2 ts Baking powder
  4. 1/2 ts Salt
  5. 1 1/2 ts Cinnamon, ground
  6. 1/4 c  Shortening, vegetable
  7. 1 Egg; slightly beaten
  8. 1/2 c  Milk
  9. 1 c  Apples, tart
               -Peeled, cored and grated
     1/4 c  Sugar, brown
    1/4 c  Pecans; chopped
    1/2 ts Cinnamon, ground

 

 

 

 
 
How to Prepare:
Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon into mixing bowl. Cut in shortening with pastry blender until fine crumbs form. Combine egg and milk. Add to dry ingredients all at once, stirring just enough to moisten. Stir in apples. Spoon batter into paper-lined 2 1/2-inch muffin-pan cups, filling 2/3rds full. Sprinkle with nut crunch topping (see below). Bake in 375xF oven 25 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot with butter and homemade jelly or jam.
 
NUT CRUNCH TOPPING: Mix together brown sugar (packed), chopped pecans and ground cinnamon in small bowl.