These muffins are packed full of goodies: sweet apples, a cinnamon sugar swirl, and a buttery brown sugar crumb topping. All the flavors of coffee cake, in muffin form!
Ahhhhhhh.
Guess where I’ve been? Nowhere.
We are having ourselves a little ‘staycation’. This was going to be Hawaii…that was until I took a 1.5 hour flight with Kai and decided there was absolutely nothing relaxing about getting on a 10-hour flight with an 11-month old. Nope, nope, nope.
Instead, Ben took some time off work and we’ve done some fun family things around the city. We went to the zoo as a family, yesterday we went for a hike. Kai has had a lot of time with his Daddy, which is really nice.
And I’ve had some culinary therapy!
I have had a great time this long week-end with some uninterrupted kitchen time. Uninterrupted kitchen time = SO much more productive! Are you ready for a bunch of recipes?
First up are these muffins. Or should I call them cakes? I really think they should be cake-fins, a hybrid, because these have a lot of goodies you’ll find in cakes…yet are still undeniably muffins in taste and texture. But there has to be a better name out there than that.
These muffins were actually ‘created’ back on holidays at my parent’s house where the apple trees were overflowing. They are so good that I made three batches of them! It seems that my Mom and I have a very similar addiction: coffee cake.
So. Cake-fins. Cake-ins? Muf-akes? Ugh. I give up.
These muffins are packed with things that make me happy: apples. A cinnamon sugar swirl. And topped with a crumbly, buttery, brown sugar crumble.
They go down perfectly as breakfast…coffee break snack…dessert, you name it!
They are my way of ringing in the first ‘unofficial’ day of fall. The leaves are changing here, which means apples are totally acceptable!
What do you think?