Cinnamon Spice Muffins...

As you will quickly notice these are very similar to the banana nut muffins.....just slightly altered for those you are not too wild about bananas.....

When preparing the apples cut them into small 1 inch cubes and simmer in a pan with the apple sauce, lemon juice and spices....it will smell so darn good....almost like apple pie.....but not quite.....


After the apples are soft I mashed them with a potato masher to get an even consistency, then added them to the rest of the muffin batter.  Which can easily be mixed while the apples are simmering....dry ingredients first, then get the eggs, sugar, and milk together....let the apple mixture cool before you add it to the rest of the wet ingredients, the last thing you want to do is end up with in omelet in the middle of one of the muffins.....mix all together and spoon into greased muffin tins and bake for 30 minutes in 350 degree oven.  If you read the banana nut blog then you are well aware of the walnut/sugar mixture that I used as a topping to get a nice crunchy muffin top....I had some left over so I used that on these ones as well....I think it worked!

~Enjoy!

Cinnamon Spice Muffins
5 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
2 scoops of vanilla protein powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cardamom
1/4 tsp coriander
1 tsp salt
5 in season apples (I used Gala - this time)
5 cap fulls of lemon juice
2 snack packs of apple sauce
2 eggs
2/3 cup milk
1 cup brown sugar