Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffins

In my attempt to try to eat normal breakfast foods, unlike what I eat here, I am trying to find new recipes that I like.  I also want them to be healthy and filling. These muffins really hit the spot, and they don't taste like ground rock.  Always a plus!

Apple Cinnamon Muffins

One Dozen*

Ingredients:

2 cups whole wheat flour**

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 cup honey or agave

1/4 cup canola oil

2 large eggs

1 cup unsweetened applesauce

1 teaspoon vanilla

3/4 cup lowfat milk or buttermilk

1 apple of choice, peeled cored and cut into 1/4 inch pieces

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1/4 cup chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and spray a muffin tin.  

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, and 1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon.  

In a large bowl or mixer, whisk together the honey and oil.  Add the eggs, one at a time.  Whisk in the vanilla and applesauce.

Whisk in the flour in two batches alternating with the milk. Stir in the apple chunks. Pour mixture into muffin tins.  

In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, pecans, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon. Sprinkle over top of the muffins.  

Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.  

Adapted from Ellie Krieger's Apple Muffins

*This made 12 very large muffins for me.  You could probably get 18 smaller muffins if you'd like.  Just reduce the baking time a little.  

**To make an even lighter muffin you could use whole wheat pastry flour.  This is finer in texture.  However, it's a little pricey.  One trick that I do is let the flour run for a couple of minutes in the food processor.  It makes the regular whole wheat flour much finer.  This also works to make regular sugar into super-fine sugar.

Enjoy!!

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Have a great day!