Apple Crumble Muffins

Super easy to make Apple Crumble Muffins.

Ingredients:

For the muffins:

120ml Milk

80ml Vegetable Oil

1 Egg

1 Tsp Vanilla Extract

160g Plain Flour

2 Tsp Baking Powder

¼ Tsp Salt

150g Sugar

2 Apples

Handful of Sultanas

For the crumble:

60g Cold Butter

65g Plain Flour

50g Brown Sugar

1 Tsp Cinnamon

2 Tbsp Porridge Oats

Utensils:

2 Large Mixing Bowls

Jug

Whisk

Spatula

Measuring Spoons

Scales

Table Spoon

Peeler

Knife

Chopping Board

Muffins Cases

Muffin Tray

Makes: 12

Baking Time: 20 - 25 Minutes

Oven: 175°C

Method:

Mix the milk, oil, egg and vanilla with the whisk in one of your mixing bowls.

Once mixed set aside.

In another bowl mix your dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, sugar and salt with the spatula.

Peel your apples, them chop them into small chunks.

Place you apple chunks into the flour mixture and mix well to ensure the apples are well coated.

Then add your sultanas and mix.

Mix your wet mixture into your dry mixtures until well combined.

Set aside.

Now to make the crumble. You can use the bowl that had your wet mixture in.

Combine all the crumble ingredients in the bowl and mix together with your fingers until you get fine crumbs.

Pour your muffin mixture into the cases, filling them ¾ full. Then sprinkle the crumble mixture onto top covering the mixture evenly.

The recipe says it makes 12 but I did struggle to pour it out evenly to get 12!

Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. The clean skewer doesn't really work as there's that much apple each time I tried to do it I was just poking into apple which wasn't coming out clean!

They're really nice and not too sweet! You can have them with custard or just plain. The cinnamon isn't too strong so you might want to put some in the actual muffin mixture and maybe add some walnuts which would work well.

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Apple Scones

Tried something different tonight. Apple scones as my nan gave us some cooking apples from her garden. 

Ingredients

225g Self raising flour

50g Butter (at room temperature)

4 Tbsp Sugar

¼ Tsp cinnamon

1 medium apple - cored & diced

125ml Milk

Preheat your oven to 200°C

In a large bowl mix your flour & butter together using a fork & hands until they're like breadcrumbs.

Add the cinnamon. 

Add sugar.

Apples peeled & diced can be added.

Mix the mixture all together. (I added sultanas again) Once it's all mixed flour your work top & roll your dough out.

Cut your dough using a cutter. Make them around 3cm thick. 

Flour your tray & place your scones on it. 

Brush the tops with a bit of milk. I actually forgot to do that until I put them in the oven & had to take them out to brush over. 

Bake for 20 minutes until the tops are golden. 

They look really pale as I forgo to add the milk wash on the top which I'm disappointed with. They're nice I will definitely make them again (better).

Let me know if you bake any of my recipes. Happy baking! :)

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Apples

My dad got a pack shortcrust pastry block from Sainsbury's which was reduced to only 60p! We also had a bag of cooking apples dad brought back home from work, from a colleague's garden which we had to use up so decided to make an apple pie. 

Shortcrust Pastry Apple Pie

I cut the pastry in half then rolled it out to size & thickness I wanted. Line the plate I was baking it into then chopped the apples & filled it.

My dad sprinkled some brown sugar over the apple to make it a bit sweeter

Then put the other half of the pastry over & pressed the edges down with a fork & put some holes on the top to let steam out. Dad trimmed the edges off & did a milk wash over the top.

We baked it until it went golden which took about 30mins at 200°C.

Ta da apple pie! As we didn't add any sugar to it, it doesn't really have much taste but we like eating it with custard anyway so don't want it to be too sweet!

Apple, Pineapple Pie

We chopped up a pineapple & put it with apple to use up the left over pastry. It didn't have a base we just put the fruit onto a try then covered it with pastry & did a milk wash.

We baked it until it was golden about 30mins at 200°C

The pastry shrunk a bit & has come off the edge of the dish!

Whilst getting the pie's out the oven I burnt my wrist on the oven! My wrist only touched the inside for a second & it's left a horrible scar! It's gone white :( I'm not even exaggerating as I am so squeamish but it's horrible! I ran it under cold water straight away & put aloe vera on it but it hasn't helped it hurts :( I'd take a picture but it's not very nice!

Apple Tourte with Nuts & Raisins

My dad has made this a couple of times as he really likes it but I'm not really a fan. He got the recipe online here if you want to try it. It's nice but I'd only make it once & wouldn't think of making it again.

I'm in uni tomorrow 9-10 seminar, 1-2 dissertation lecture, 4-5 lecture. Worst day ever. Uni should start at 10 & finish at 4. Like 9 & 5 is just the worst time for traffic we don't need to add to it by going to uni! Urghh, a start of a long week uni & working whilst having to actually start to do some uni work!

Julie

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