After those Whole Wheat Pumpkin Muffins a couple of weeks ago I knew that I had fallen in love with muffins again. And you know what this means, they are going to be getting baked in the Living Lou kitchen a lot more often. So when I was assigned the wonderful blog Busy-at-Home for this month’s Secret Recipe Club I was on the hunt for muffins.
Glenda, who is the face behind Busy-at-Home is such an inspiring person. I was so happy to be assigned her blog which is filled with recipes, such as these No Bake Peanut Butter Bars (which I have already made!) She also has great reviews and lots of fun giveaways. What I found the coolest about Glenda is how passionate she is about homeschooling. You may not know this about me, but I’m passionate about many things, so to see someone who is as equally passionate about something she believes in is so inspiring! What it boils down to folks, is that Glenda is a pretty amazing person and I just reading her About page brings a smile to my face.
These Cinnamon Swirl Muffins come out of her Cinnamon Roll Cake I took her delicious sounding cake recipe and adapted it into a Living Lou favourite – the muffin! These muffins are sweet and make a nice snack, not the healthiest, but made with whole wheat flour.
Cinnamon Swirl Muffins (makes 6-8)
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/8 tsp salt
1/8 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup unsweetened apple sauce
Cinnamon Swirl
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp whole wheat flour
1 tbsp cinnamon
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 and line a muffin tin with paper liners.
In a large bowl whisk together whole wheat flour, salt, cloves, baking powder and sugar.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the milk, egg, vanilla and apple sauce.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, gently mixing. Do not over-mix! Scoop batter into muffin tin.
Meanwhile, in another bowl, combine meltedbutter, sugar, whole wheat flour and cinnamon. Spoon a little over a teaspoon of the cinnamon swirl onto the top of each muffin. Create the swirl using a knife, by drawing it through the batter.
Bake in the oven for 20 minutes or until fully cooked.
Hope you’re having a great Monday!
- Lou
Absolutely delish! 1 question – The apple sauce u used is sweetened or not?
Thanks and unsweetened – I’ll be sure to put that in the recipe! :)
I LOVE LOVE LOVE that you made this into cupcakes! I need portion control when it comes to something as delicious as this recipe!
Very nice SRC post!
Those muffins look excellent. Cinnamon swirl – just makes me want to get a cup of tea to dip it in!
This is a beautiful muffin, very warm and inviting with great flavor. This is a great pick for the SRC! Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful week.
Miz Helen
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Delicious looking, great recipe.
If you haven’t already, I’d love for you to check out my group ‘A’ SRC recipe this month: Pork Belly Soup with Collard Greens.
Lisa~~
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I love the idea of making these into muffins :)
Lou, the muffins look fab. I’m so going to try these out!!! Great job!
I love cinnamon, these sound delicious. Looks great — so fun to be in SRC with you!
Whole wheat flour and applesauce. That’s about all you can do to make it as healthy as possible. They look delicious.
If you haven’t already, I’d love it if you’d check out my SRC recipe for Crockpot Apple-Cinnamon Oatmeal.
Will definitely be making these muffins…Love the healthy ingredients you use, too…
Good Morning Lou,
I need that awesome muffin to go with my morning coffee. It is fun cooking with you at the SRC, have a great day!
Miz Helen
Those look so good! I wish I had one for breakfast this morning!