Apple Oat Muffins

Muffins are great but I always find that store bought muffins are way too sweet. I was originally setting out to make apple bran muffins but scratched that idea all together and started from the ground up on this recipe. It was a total shot in the dark (that started with one large egg and some makeshift buttermilk) but it turned out great!

The key to this recipe is using tart apples. I like baking with granny smith, but feel free to use whichever type of apple you'd like. Try adding walnuts or cranberries.

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Apple Oat Muffins

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Preheat oven to 350°F 3/4 C white or whole wheat flour 3/4 C brown rice flour 3/4 C rolled oats 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 3 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 large egg 1 C buttermilk* 3-4 Tbsp butter, melted 3/8 C honey 2 medium granny smith apples, diced

In a large bowl, beat the egg. Add the buttermilk. If you are using a buttermilk substitute, make sure it is sufficiently curdled before adding. Mix in the honey and melted butter until completely combined. Sift and add the dry ingredients and mix until smooth. Add the apples. In a greased muffin pan or a non-stick pan, spoon the ingredients to the brim. Bake for 18-20 minutes or if using a convection oven, bake for about 10 or until the tops are golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. *Milk curdled with lemon juice or white vinegar works as a great buttermilk substitute. For one cup of buttermilk use one cup of milk and enough acid to curdle the milk.

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Quick Apple Turnovers

I bet you guys are tired of seeing recipes for triangle shaped carbohydrates at this point but I swear this one is stupidly fast, cheap, and amazing with all things considered. It's just a little bit past 1 AM as a write this and a big plate of apple turnover dumpling things are hovering in my vision just over the laptop screen. This will ultimately mean disaster, but presently means I've been good enough to resist eating all of them already. I'm so ready to pop one of those babies in the toaster tomorrow morning. Sinful.

Earlier this evening I came home craving apple pie. Pies are sort of messy to make, plus I didn't want to be tempted to eat the whole pie so I reluctantly vetoed that idea and moved onto apple dumplings. Apple dumplings are awesome but as I started rummaging through the fridge looking for ingredients I spotted a roll of crescent rolls. Yep, that's right, those delicious, fattening, fake doughy air things. Bingo! The light went off in my head, instead of making full on apple dumpling dough, I'd wrap the apples in crescent roll dough. Wrong.

What I ultimately ended up doing was going to be way faster to bake: dice an apple, add some stuff, make a crescent roll dumpling sandwich thing. Bake. Amazing. I might be a genius... or I might just be a gigantic food whore.

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Quick Apple Turnovers

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Yields 4 turnovers Preheat oven to 375°F 1 crescent roll package 1 medium apple 1 tsp cinnamon 1 Tbsp honey

Dice apple into 1/4 inch cubes. In a bowl, combine apples, cinnamon, and honey. On an ungreased baking sheet, lay out four of the eight triangles of the crescent roll dough. Scoop the apple mixture onto the triangles, place a remaining triangle on top of each of the prepared triangles. Seal the sides by pressing them together with your fingers and stamping with a fork. Place in the oven on a center rack for 11 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot or toast tomorrow.

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Fun fact: the grand total price of these was about $3. And the time they took to make from start to consumption was about 20 minutes. There's a hash tag for that and it's "#winning".





I'm really still unsure of what to call these apple delights. Maybe just apple delight but I've definitely run though the gamut:

Apple ______

1. Hot Pocket
2. Turnover
3. Ghetto Dumpling
4. Dough Triangle
5. Wedges
6. Poptart Triangle
7. Delight
8. Sandwich

Yeah, I clearly did not stop while I was ahead. Call them what you want.