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Best Ever Apple Pie Muffins Make Great School Snacks

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Best Apple Pie Muffins Ever | Festively Made
Aye yi yi!!! Where have I been? It’s complicated, but the simple answer is that life has gotten in the way of blogging. First, I was struck down by a sinus infection that was hard to shake. Couple that with work, volunteering at the kids’ school, the Jewish high holidays, well…you get the picture. I owe my poor neglected blog (and my readers!) an apology. Let me make it up to you with a delicious new recipe!

Best Apple Pie Muffins Ever | Festively Made
My son loves apple pie…or more specifically my apple pie (courtesy of Paula Deen!). Apple pie is not something I’m going to make every day, but I got to thinking about how great it would be to have all the flavors of apple pie in a muffin. That would be awesome! Surely, I’m not the only person who thinks this way. As it turns out, apple pie muffins are not an original thought at all. A little online search and voila, I had a recipe in hand to try.

Best Apple Pie Muffins Ever | Festively Made
You see I’m always looking for ways to pump some calories into that boy. He’s been improving a little lately on his picky eating (which I’m afraid to even mention for fear I will jinx that progress). He’s always been a carbs guy so muffins are really a no-brainer. I made this recipe several weeks back, and my son has been taking these apple pie muffins to school on a regular basis as a snack. I just made a batch and froze them all. Every morning before school, I pop an apple pie muffin into his snack bag, and it’s defrosted by snack time. So easy!

Best Apple Pie Muffins Ever | Festively Made
If the pickiest eater in the world love these apple pie muffins, so will you!

Best Ever Apple Pie Muffins

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Best Ever Apple Pie Muffins
Serves 18
Prep time 20 minutes
Cook time 25 minutes
Total time 45 minutes
Allergy Egg, Milk, Wheat
Meal type Breakfast
Misc Child Friendly, Freezable, Serve Cold, Serve Hot
Website Adapted from Food.com

Ingredients

Topping

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
  • 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Muffins

  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/3 cup applesauce (I used cinnamon applesauce to amp up the spice!)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon allspice
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 2 cups Honeycrisp apples (finely chopped)

Directions

Topping
Step 1
In a small bowl, toss together sugar, flour, butter and cinnamon until crumbly; set aside
Muffins
Step 2
In large bowl, whisk together brown sugar, oil, applesauce, egg and vanilla until smooth. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and allspice.
Step 3
Stir oil/applesauce mixture into flour mixture alternately with buttermilk.
Step 4
Fold in apples, mixing just until combined. Spoon in greased muffin cups filling 3/4 full.
Step 5
Sprinkle topping over muffins evenly. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and tops spring back.

What’s More American than Crunch Top Apple Pie?

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Crunch Top Apple Pie | Festively Made
We  hung by the pool on the 4th of July. Delicious food and great friends are the perfect recipe for a good time, don’t you think? In addition to some hot-off-the-grill bbq and five dips, including this curry one, I also made Paula Deen’s Crunch Top Apple Pie. What’s more American than apple pie? I just love the smell of fresh-baked apple pie wafting in the air!

Crunch Top Apple Pie | Festively Made
I wish people made pie more often. The whole process of making a pie intimidates a lot of people. Could it be the rolling out of the crust? Or the time-consuming nature of most pie recipes? Whatever the case, this recipe for Crunch Top Apple Pie couldn’t be any easier to make. The most difficult task is peeling and cutting the apples. With a tool like this one, prepping the apples is a breeze.

Crunch Top Apple Pie | Festively Made
The best part of this recipe is that you can simplify the pie-making process even further by using a refrigerated pie crust from the grocery store. I used this one by Pillsbury. If you’re a purist or feel inclined to make your own, you can go that route, too. That said, refrigerated pie crust is SO easy to use. And shoot, you don’t even have to tell anyone you used it. When someone compliments  you on your pie crust, just say thank you.

Crunch Top Apple Pie | Festively Made
Paula’s original recipe calls for plain applesauce, but I’ve found this recipe is even better when made with cinnamon applesauce because who doesn’t love a little more cinnamon in their apple pie?! I really like to use this applesauce in the recipe because I prefer its flavor the best, but you can’t go wrong with any brand. The original recipe calls for 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, which you can omit or lessen if you do choose to use a cinnamon applesauce. Just something to keep in mind.

This recipe never fails to get high praise. I know you won’t be disappointed if you make it. Enjoy!

Crunch Top Apple Pie

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Crunch Top Apple Pie
Serves 8
Prep time 15 minutes
Cook time 55 minutes
Total time 1 hours, 10 minutes
Allergy Milk, Wheat
Meal type Dessert
Misc Child Friendly, Serve Cold, Serve Hot
Website Adapted from Food Network

Ingredients

  • dough for a double crust 9-inch pie (homemade, frozen, or refrigerated)
  • 3/4 cups sugar
  • 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
  • dash salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
  • 3 1/2 cups apples (peeled and chopped)
  • 16oz cinnamon applesauce
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons butter (chopped into small pieces)
  • 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • dash salt
  • 1 tablespoon butter (at room temperature)

Directions

Step 1
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Step 2
Line a 9-inch pie pan with half of dough. Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon (optional), and salt in a bowl. Stir in apples, cinnamon applesauce, and lemon juice. Spoon apple mixture into pie pan and dot with butter.
Step 3
Cut remaining crust into strips; arrange in a lattice design over top of pie.
Step 4
For crunch topping, combine flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl. Using a fork, cut in butter until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over top of crust.
Step 5
Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees F and continue to bake for about 45 minutes, or until crust and topping are golden brown.