Harvest Spice Muffins Recipes

FALL HARVEST MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Place paper baking cups into 18 muffin pan cups or grease muffin pan cups; set aside.
• Combine flour, sugar, oats, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in bowl. Add apples, carrots, dried cherries and nuts; stir until well mixed.
• Whisk eggs in bowl. Stir in melted butter, applesauce and vanilla. Add egg mixture to flour mixture; stir until just moistened.
• Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin pan cups. Bake 18-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pan. Serve warm or at room temperature.

AUTUMN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease muffin pans or line with paper muffin liners.
• In a large bowl, stir together the brown sugar, white sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Make a well in the center, and add the melted butter, milk and eggs, mix until smooth. Stir in the cranberries, apple, figs, and hazelnuts. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pans. Cups should be at least 3/4 full.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven or until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean.

SUGAR AND SPICE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 12 muffin cups.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. In a separate bowl, beat together oil, 3/4 cup sugar, egg and milk. Stir egg mixture into flour mixture, just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean.
• While muffins are baking, mix together 3/4 cup white sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. While muffins are still hot, dip tops in melted butter and then in cinnamon sugar mixture.

HARVEST SPICE MUFFINS (APPLE-PEAR SPICE MUFFINS)

Steps:

• Whisk together eggs, milk, and oil until completely blended.
• Stir in diced fruit.
• Combine remaining ingredients in separate bowl.
• Add dry to wet ingredients and stir just until blended.
• Let batter sit for 15-20 minutes: this is optional, but I think it makes the muffins rise higher. (You could also let the batter sit after you divide it into the muffin cups, instead of before.).
• Divide batter between 20 greased muffin cups and bake at 400 for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown on top.
• Serve warm with a drizzle of honey!

GOLDEN HARVEST MUFFINS I

Steps:

• Combine all dry ingredients, fruits, nuts, raisins, and carrots in a large bowl.
• Mix together oil, milk, vanilla and eggs.
• Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients just until the dry are moistened.
• Do not over mix.
• Fill well greased muffin tins 3/4 full.
• Bake at 350°F for 20 to 25 minutes.

SPICED PEAR MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first eight ingredients. In another bowl, beat the egg, yogurt, oil and molasses until smooth. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in pears, raisins and walnuts. , Fill greased or paper-lined miniature muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 400° for 10-12 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm.

HARVEST SPICE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Note: The total amount of chopped carrots and beets should be about 3 cups. I like a little more carrot than beet in the mixture.
• Put the carrots and beets in water in a microwave safe dish and microwave, covered, for 10 minutes or until they are tender.
• Add the oil and eggs to a blender and put the carrots and beets in on top. Puree.
• Mix together the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry, stirring until just moistened.
• In another bowl, beat the cream cheese, egg, and sugar until smooth.
• Fill 24 greased muffin cups one-third full of muffin batter.
• Drop a spoonful of filling on top of each muffin.
• Cover the filling with remaining batter.
• Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
• Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan. Refrigerate leftovers.