It was too late when Angela realized that her “fridge” actually froze everything that sat in it. Her bag of apples turned sorbet-ish, but left a chewy and mushy texture unpleasant to the mouth. Thus, we turned to baking. Afterall, thou shall not waste food.
We wanted a simple recipe and found one here. I modified the recipe a bit, seeing as I didn’t have some ingredients. Since I didn’t have cinnamon, I added chocolate. A knock-off brand of Nutella was on sale, so I wondered what would happen if I put a spoonful of the hazelnut goodness in the middle of each muffin. The muffins turned out great and best of all, they’re butterless! The following makes 6 decent sized muffins and is my revised recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup self raising flour
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/3 cup cooking oil
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- Nutella (6 tablespoons)
- 2 apples – peeled, cored and chopped
Recipe:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Mix all the dry ingredients- both flours, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Then add in the oil, milk, and egg. I used canola oil, but any type of cooking oil will do.
- Incorporate the apples by folding them in. Do not overmix.
- Spoon the batter into the muffin tins 1/4 of the way. Add a spoonful of Nutella to each tin. Spoon more batter until it fills the tins 3/4 of the way. Add chocolate chips to the top of the batter. (optional)
- Bake for about 20-25 minutes.
Sidenotes*
- Adding the Nutella and chocolate chips are completely optional. However, without the cinnamon, the apple is a bit bare so the chocolate makes up for the lacking flavor quite well.
- I used part all-purpose and part self raising flour because I like it when my muffins look as if they’re on steroids. So since the recipe called for 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose, I substituted with 1 cup all purpose and 1/2 cup self raising.
- I believe that this recipe is quite healthy (minus the chocolate aspect). You can tone down a bit on the sugar if you’re adding chocolate. Either way, there’s no butter involved.
- I also don’t grease my muffin tins with butter. They slide ride out with a bit of prodding from my knife.
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Mmm, I think anything with nutella is amazing. With apple, it sounds phenomenal.
totally agree- hence why i polished off a 750g container of nutella in a week… with a spoon that is!
How do you keep the nutella from sinking to the bottom?