Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins Recipe – Healthy 

This Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins Recipe has the added healthy ingredients of oats, nuts and lots of fresh apples for an Autumn hug. 

Healthy Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins
Healthy Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins

Apple Season Inspired

The first culinary ingredient that always come to mind for me when the fall season arrives, is apples!

Apples are such a versatile fruit. Sure, most other fruits can be prepared in sweet or savory recipes. 

But apples have substance. Even diced apples don’t dissolve into a puddle of juice like so many other fruits. 

We live such busy lives and often find it difficult to eat healthy food on the go. 

Tuck an apple in your purse or backpack and that beauty is still firm and ready when you are, which makes apples a great way to take fruit with you on the go! 

Try doing that with grapes or a pit fruit, like peaches!

So Many Great Autumn Apple Choices
So Many Great Autumn Apple Choices

Apple Picking In Autumn

It’s funny how at the first sight of Spring, we go hunting for strawberry patches to pick those beautiful red berries. 

Then when Autumn arrives, we go on the hunt for the best apples, at a local orchards to pick, yet again, more luscious red (usually), fruit!

Finding family fun has become increasingly more difficult, now that we are all stuck to a screen. 

I promise you though (having raised 4 of my own), a family outing, time together, time with nature, will cultivate the best memories. 

Return home with a bag full of delicious fruit and you can continue to linger together as a family, in the kitchen. 

Make something delicious, that your family helped to gather, perhaps make and the dish will have more meaning. Perhaps it will even become a tradition they continue when grown. 

Apple Orchard Apple Picking - A Family Outing To Treasure
Apple Orchard Apple Picking – A Family Outing To Treasure

Healthy Apple Muffins Recipe

As is usually the way, a ‘quick bread‘ recipe is made with the combination of wet ingredients, mixed with dry ingredients, and risen with a quick rising agent, usually baking soda. 

What makes a muffin recipe healthy, is the ingredients used in the dry and wet ingredients. 

The healthier fat used in this recipe is the use of a vegetable oil instead of butter, in which coconut oil is my first choice of a vegetable oil to use. 

It has a way of making moist and tender muffins instead of dense and sometimes dry. 

Another aspect of a healthier muffin is found in the dry ingredients, and for this recipe I grind walnuts, also adding more natural oils, and cut down on the all purpose flour. 

Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffin Without Crumble
Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffin Without Crumble

Cinnamon Apple Muffins

These easy apple muffins come together fast, whether you peel the skins or choose to leave them on. 

Tossing the apple pieces in cinnamon, allspice and cloves, before mixing the remaining ingredients, allows the apple to become coated in the wonderful  apple pie spice we all know and love. 

However, to make preparation time quicker, simple toss wet ingredients with the dry ingredients and when it bakes, the spices will become incorporated into every single bite. 

The bake time is quick, producing a dozen, and with a small airtight container, a single delicious apple muffin can go where you need to go! 

Cinnamon and Apples Are Just A 'Thing'!
Cinnamon and Apples Are Just A ‘Thing’!

Decadent Autumn Crumb Topping

Often times, a crumble placed on the top of a quick bread is a mixture of butter, sugar and flour, sometimes rolled oats. 

However, for the crumble on decadent healthy muffin, I’ve chosen to make the crumble out of finely chopped walnuts, cinnamon and a drizzle of maple syrup for a lovely nutty, slightly sweet healthier version. 

The use of maple syrup, agave or honey is the perfect way to cut back on over processed sugar. 

Warm Cinnamon Screams Of Autumn

When the weather begins to cool and the days become shorter, ovens begin to crank up once again for the fall and winter months. 

I’m sure most would agree that there is nothing quite like biting into a freshly baked bread, cake or pie that is fragrant with the aroma of cinnamon. 

Did you know that cinnamon is one of the most common spices used in baking and cooking around the world? 

It is known by cooks, both professional and home cooks to add the scent or flavor to the dish being prepared. 

While you might think of cinnamon as primarily a spice used in sweets, having grown up with a Syrian mother, I first knew cinnamon as the spice used in meat dishes. 

After all, cinnamon is not sweet until sugar is added to it, and actually quite ‘peppery hot’ to the taste. 

Better Than An Apple For The Teacher!
Better Than An Apple For The Teacher!

Cooking With Apples

If you’re looking for an easy snack or dessert for raw apples, look no further than whipping up some homemade Salt Caramel. It’s perfect for dipping apple slices in, or making Popcorn Balls out of. 

While we know how delicious apples are raw, let’s chat about some fabulous recipes that showcase cooked apples. 

  • Apple Baklava– an American twist on a traditional Mediterranean dessert.
  • Apples Wellington – a whimsical way of stuffing a whole apple with spices and nuts, then wrapping a pastry around it to look just like an apple, baked to perfection.
  • Autumn’s Best Apple Pie – Autumn’s Best Apple Pie Recipe With Homemade Crust incorporates your choice of apples, sweet or tart, warm autumn spices and a buttery homemade crust. 
  • Apple Oat & Almond Muffins – healthy enough to be breakfast, naturally sweet enough to be dessert, found in my cookbook of 52 muffins.
  • Apple Salad In A Cabbage Bowl– a traditional savory apple salad, served in a seasonal Savoy cabbage.
  • Barbecue Sauce – while tomatoes are often the fruit used to make a barbecue sauce, apples make an even richer flavor and texture.

52 Muffins In My Muffin Madness

So, why didn’t this scrumptious apple cinnamon crumb muffins recipe make it into my recently published muffin cookbook?

Well, My Muffin Madness, was just that; during a flurry of 3 straight months, I was creating muffin recipes day and night.

Poor hubby, it’s about all he ate during that frenzy of fun in my kitchen.

However, now that autumn has arrived, two years after I published my fabulous and unique cookbook, I quietly went into my kitchen with apples on my mind, and created a new one, just for you and me!

My Muffin Madness Cookbook
My Muffin Madness Cookbook

Equipment Needed

  • 12-cups Muffin Tin
  • Mixing bowls – of various sizes
  • Food processor
  • Measuring cup and spoons
  • Apple peeler
  • Cutting board and sharp knife
  • Oven
Cinnamon Apple Crumb Muffin Ingredients
Cinnamon Apple Crumb Muffin Ingredients

Ingredients Needed

  • Eggs
  • Coconut oil or other preferred vegetable oil
  • Brown sugar
  • Apples
  • Plain Greek yogurt
  • Lemon juice
  • Venilla extract
  • Walnuts
  • Spelt flour or all purpose
  • Cinnamon
  • Allspice
  • Cloves
  • Salt
  • Maple syrup
The Apples Of Autumn!
The Apples Of Autumn!
Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins Recipe - Healthy

Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins Recipe – Healthy 

A healthy apple cinnamon muffin with oats, nuts and a maple syrup crumble on top.
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Course: Muffins
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins Recipe
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 12 servings

Equipment

  • Muffin tin
  • Food processor or blender
  • Cooking spray or baking paper cup liners

Ingredients

  • Wet Ingredients
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1/2 cup Coconut oil room temperature or slightly melted
  • 1/3 cup Light brown sugar
  • 2 cups Grated Apples Pink lady for sweet or granny smith apples for tart
  • 1/3 cup Greek yogurt plain
  • 1 tbsp Lemon juice
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  • Dry Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup Ground Walnuts or pecans
  • 2 cups Spelt flour or all purpose
  • 1 tbsp Cinnamon
  • 1 tsp Allspice
  • 1/4 tsp cloves
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • Crumble
  • 1/2 cup Walnuts or pecans, finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp Maple syrup
  • 1 tbsp Brown sugar
  • pinch Salt
  • 1/2 tsp Cinnamon

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350
    Prepare muffin tin with either cooking spray or baking paper liners
  • In a large bowl, whisk the wet ingredients together until light and creamy, preferably with a hand mixer. Set aside.
    In a medium bowl, whisk the dry ingredients together and set aside. 
    In a small bowl, whisk the crumble ingredients together and set aside. 
  • Whisk the flour mixture into the wet apple mixture until well blended. 
    Spoon batter evenly into the prepared muffin tin. 
    Place a small dollop of the crumble mixture on tops of the muffins. 
  • Bake until golden brown and a cake tester comes out clean, about 20-minutes. 
    Remove and place on a wire rack to cool.

Notes

 Once cooled, these Apple Cinnamon muffins can be store in an airtight container in the fridge for a week, or frozen for several months. 
Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins
Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins
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