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Apple Muffins!

Sweet apple muffins!

last two days I’ve been busy. Got little to time to craft, but I kind of have a nice project for tomorrow…

Now I just have to learn how to juggle.  (Also, I got this project from CRAFT  magazine.)

This is a recipe I saw on the Martha Stewart show a year or so ago. It’s kind of bread pudding-like with apples and cinnamon and nutmeg. I modified the original recipe to make it a smaller dish, and I use a sweet Belgian Waffle Mix instead of flour. It makes a great, quick breakfast/brunch dish. add more sugar and it becomes a dessert.

Apple Pancake Puff
1/2 stick butter
3-4 apples (I prefer Gala)
2 tbs. raisins (optional)
4 eggs
1 cup Belgian waffle/pancake mix
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
dash nutmeg
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tbs. granulated sugar (more or less, depending on the sweetness of your waffle/pancake mix)
1 tbs. brown sugar

Pre-heat oven to 425°F. Melt butter in an 8×4 loaf pan in the oven. Meanwhile, peel, core and quarter apples. Quarter again for 16 pieces per apple. Add apples (and raisins, if using) to melted butter. In a large bowl or blender, combine: eggs, waffle/pancake mix, milk, vanilla extract, nutmeg, cinnamon, granulated sugar. Blend or whisk until frothy. Make sure butter is bubbling, then pour batter over apples. Sprinkle with brown sugar. Bake 20 minutes. Serves 6.

To make into dessert: After adding apples & raisins, and before adding batter, sprinkle apples with 1 tbs. granulated sugar. Also, increase sugar in the batter mix from 1 tbs. to 3 tbs. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream to make this into a dessert.

Martha’s original recipe may be found here: click!

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