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Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffin Recipe

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This Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffin recipe is the essence of fall. These muffins are warmly spiced, full of tender, sweet apples, and are as comforting as can be!Several Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffins in a red and green, cloth lined basket, surrounded by Fuji apples.Imagine, if you will, something between luscious apple pie and warm apple cake.

That’s exactly what this Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffin recipe tastes like!

One Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffin, cut in half on a red and green cloth.And let’s go ahead and call this sweet, amazingly comforting deliciousness a muffin — that way we can feel good about having it for breakfast. 😉

I think we all know a “muffin” is often dessert.

I hope you’ll try this recipe over the weekend — have it for breakfast or for dessert!

You will be so happy you did.  My advice . . . warm it slightly, and have it with a perfect cup of coffee.

Close up photo of a few Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffins in a red and green, cloth covered basket.Make sure you begin with fantastic apples — they should be sweet and crisp.

Taste them before you buy them — all you have to do is ask, and most produce departments will happily slice into one for you.

I was lucky enough to get these from a friend’s backyard Fuji apple tree.  Remember when we used them to make Fall Chai Spiced Apple Cake?

Sheet pan full of thinly sliced apples, with cinnamon and other spices sprinkled on top.

What are the best apples to bake with?

The best apples to bake with are apples that will keep their structure when heat is applied. We want to use apples that will stay in pieces, rather then turning int apple sauce in our cakes, muffins, etc.  Here are a few (of several) that work really well.

  • Braeburn
  • Fuji
  • Granny Smith
  • Honeycrisp
  • Pink Lady

Batter prepped in paper cups in the muffin tins for Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffin recipe.I think making this Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffin recipe is sure to bring you some fall joy!

A few more delicious, fall apple recipes for you:

Fuji apple tree with a few bundles of green apples hangingin clusters. Enjoy every last crumb of these oh-so-delicious roasted apple muffins!

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Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffin Recipe -- These Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffins are the essence of fall. They're warmly spiced, full of tender, sweet apples, and are as comforting as can be!
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Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffin Recipe
Prep Time
40 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
1 hr
 

This Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffin recipe is the essence of fall. They're warmly spiced, full of tender, sweet apples, and are as comforting as can be!

Course: Breakfast, Brunch, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: desserts for breakfast
Servings: 12
Calories: 233 kcal
Author: Valentina K. Wein
Ingredients
For the apples
  • 3 cups Fuji or Granny Smith apples, peeled, thinly sliced (from about 3 to 4 apples)
  • 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
For the batter
  • 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons ground cardamom
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 3/4 cup golden raisins
For the topping
  • 1/3 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup raw pecans or walnuts, very finely chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted cold butter, cut into small chunks
Instructions
  1. Prepare a muffin tin with 12 paper cups. Set aside.
To prepare the apples
  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F, and adjust a rack to the center.
  2. In a large bowl, gently mix the apples with the brown sugar, lemon juice and cinnamon. Set aside.
  3. Add the butter to a sheet pan and place it in the preheated oven for about 30 seconds to melt it. Remove the pan from the oven and move it around to evenly distribute it. Then add the prepared apples and use a flat-bottomed spatula to gently mix them with the butter. Spread them out in a fairly even layer.
    Sheet pan full of thinly sliced apples, with cinnamon and other spices sprinkled on top.
  4. Place the sheet pan back in the oven until the apples are soft, about 8 minutes. Set aside to cool.
  5. Turn the oven heat down to 375 degrees F.
For the batter
  1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour with the baking powder, cardamom, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
  2. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk the buttermilk with the sugar, eggs and vanilla.
  3. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. Mix just until smooth.
  4. Fold in the melted butter, the raisins and the roasted apples. (Use a rubber spatula to scrape every last bit of the butter and apples from the pan.)
  5. Fill the prepared muffin cups evenly -- each should be about 3/4 filled with the batter. Set aside.
For the topping
  1. In a small bowl, mix the brown sugar with the nuts and cinnamon. Then use your fingers to incorporate the butter -- it should be a crumbly mixture.
  2. Evenly distribute the topping on the surface of each muffin.
    Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffin Recipe -- These Spiced Buttermilk Roasted Apple Muffins are the essence of fall. They're warmly spiced, full of tender, sweet apples, and are as comforting as can be!
  3. Place in preheated 375 degree F oven until they've risen a bit above the top of the cups and are becoming golden, about 20 minutes.
  4. Let them cool for at least 20 minutes before serving.

 

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  3. Love everything about these! These look like autumn in a muffin wrapper! I am pinning these for future reference and I look forward to consuming a dozen! Thanks for sharing 🙂

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  4. I am SO jealous of that apple orchard – oh my goodness you lucky girl! I’m printing this recipe off as we speak – looks so amazing and you described it perfectly!

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    • Thank you so much, Amanda! If only it were my orchard! 😉 Thank you for checking out the recipe and I hope you love these as much as I do!

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  6. Oh my God! These look absolutely AMAZING! I love apple pie and apple cake, so I can imagine what these muffins taste like. Pinning to try later!

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  10. Super excited to make these! Do you know if I refrigerate the batter overnight and bake them fresh in the morning, will they still be as good? If I do so should I make the apples in the morning too?

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    • Hi Catherine, Though I haven’t tried it so I’m not 100% sure, I do think it would work to make the batter ahead of time and refrigerate. You could also roast the apples the night before — but I’d leave them out, wrapped tightly once they’ve cooled. I hope you love them and let me know how it goes. Enjoy & thanks for checking out my recipes. 🙂

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