Apple Butter Doughnut Muffins
Soft, fluffy, and deeply spiced with a flavor that just screams FALL, these apple butter doughnut muffins are everything. Perfect with a slathering of salted butter or even a little more apple butter, you can’t go wrong with this one.
- Yield: 6 muffins
Ingredients
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- 3/4 cup apple butter
- 6 tablespoons salted butter, plus more for greasing the muffin pan
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar, divided
- 1 egg
- 2 heaping tablespoons Greek yogurt (vanilla or plain)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon allspice or ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- Pinch salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Butter 6 muffin tins.
- In a microwave safe bowl (you can also do this in a saucepan on the stovetop), combine the apple butter and salted butter and microwave for about 45 to 60 seconds, or just until the butter is melted.
- Pour ¾ of the apple butter mixture into a large bowl (reserve the remaining for brushing), and add ⅓ cup of the sugar, the egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla, the yogurt, and the vanilla. Stir to combine.
- In a second bowl, whisk together the flour, 1 teaspoon of the cinnamon, the allspice, the cloves, a pinch of salt, the baking soda, and the baking powder.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir just until you can’t see any more dry streaks. Don’t over-mix! Evenly divide the batter between the greased muffin tins.
- Bake at 425 for 5 minutes and then reduce the temperature to 350 degrees. Bake at 350 for about 8 to 10 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted inside comes out totally clean (sometimes this takes 8 minutes for me, sometimes more – just check!). Let cool for 5 minutes before handling.
- In a small bowl, combine the remaining â…“ cup sugar with the remaining teaspoon of cinnamon.
- Add about 1 tablespoon of water to the remaining apple butter mixture and brush this all over the warm muffins. Coat each glazed muffin with cinnamon-sugar, and enjoy.
Notes
These will keep, covered, for a few days.