Comments | bakebakebake: brown sugar apple muffins and applesauce cake with cinnamon and nutmeg

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brown sugar apple muffins and applesauce cake with cinnamon and nutmeg

Jan 20, 2013 20:52

I love apples. I really do. I'll eat anything with apples in it even if it contains other ingredients I usually avoid - apple strudel is a good example of this. I carefully scrape out the custard and then attack the rest of it like there's no tomorrow. This is why every time I come across a recipe for apple cake or apple muffins I think I've found ( Read more... )

apples, cakes, nutmeg, cinnamon

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reseda_3067 January 20 2013, 13:20:13 UTC

NOTHING horrible about that pic! I wanted a slice right away. Nom. The muffins look mighty tempting too. :)

amaelamin_ January 20 2013, 14:27:39 UTC

the muffins, omg the muffins. i need everybody to just stop what they're doing and make them now. so good! and heh thanks for saying that about the photo but i really should learn how to take good food photos :)

reseda_3067 January 20 2013, 14:49:27 UTC

Me too. Just look at my user pic! Hahaha. I took that a couple of days ago after I made that chocolate cake. Not pretty. But the cake was awesome! lol!

amaelamin_ January 21 2013, 13:29:55 UTC

we belong to the 'just close your eyes and eat it' school of bakers ;)

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superbadgirl January 20 2013, 17:57:22 UTC

Damn, I wish I'd bought apples instead of minneolas at the grocery store this week.

Yum!

amaelamin_ January 21 2013, 13:30:11 UTC

what are minneolas?? i've never heard of them!

superbadgirl January 23 2013, 20:16:14 UTC

tangelo - cross between a tangerine and grapefruit or pomelo. Also, delicious.

amaelamin_ January 25 2013, 02:45:37 UTC

whoa i need to get my hands on one of those.

sinkwriter January 20 2013, 18:02:09 UTC

Now I want one of those muffins. You've sold me on them! :D

amaelamin_ January 21 2013, 13:30:29 UTC

good! my job here is done.

desertdreams67 January 20 2013, 19:47:56 UTC

Want to do this!!

amaelamin_ January 21 2013, 13:30:38 UTC

please do!

doubletake January 22 2013, 02:56:28 UTC

Made the muffins, using the lower amount of sugar and swapping half of the oil for unsweetened applesauce. I also used barely 1/4 of a cup of brown sugar for the topping. I got 22 muffins, but they didn't rise hardly at all so no monster mushroom caps for me.

I liked the flavor and the bounty of apple bits (and they were plenty sweet for my taste), but the texture of my muffins was exceedingly heavy and dense. I'll probably make them again, but try upping the wet content with buttermilk or yogurt to make the SUPER DUPER THICK HOLY CANNOLI BATMAN YOU WERE NOT KIDDING dough a little easier to manage (I think I may have overdeveloped the gluten while trying to incorporate all of the dry patches/apple bits, which can interfere with rising) and add a bit more leavening.

(Note: overdeveloping the gluten would have been harder to do if I had used all oil--gluten needs water to form.)

Texture issues did not stop me from consuming 4 of these today...may have something to do with the fact that I am pregnant and /constantly/ craving fruit.

amaelamin_ January 22 2013, 08:11:01 UTC

if you ate four it's a good thing you lessened the oil and sugar! but really though, the muffins don't really need a higher wet content if you use a healthy vegetable oil because it really does help to make the muffin super light and fluffy. my batter was thick but not unmanageable and even though i think i mixed it pretty thoroughly it didn't become thick and dense. i hope you try them the original way! and congratulations on your baby :)