These absolutely beautiful muffins may look like we have veered off our eat-healthy-January plan, which is really more of a we-stuffed-ourselves-silly-in-December consequence, but looks can be deceiving.
It's cold outside and when it's cold outside, muffins make it onto the winter necessities list. So I made these muffin goodies with whole wheat flour, added a whole apple, and cut back the sugar. Now I give you Whole Wheat Apple Coffee Cake Muffins that are fluffy and sweet and are two parts healthy to one part cakey.
So, these particular muffins won't contribute to a junk food problem, but they may bring up problems of their own. For example, do you have any muffin bottom haters at your house? Every time I make muffins like these, muffins with crunchy, sweet, coffee cake toppings, my kids come down with a serious case of muffin-bottom-itis.
Everybody loves the fluffy muffin top with its crunchy streusel, but the sad muffin bottoms are tossed aside, destined to become stale and crumbly under the kitchen table. It's a problem we're trying to work through here. Muffin-bottom neglect, it's a real thing.
All that aside, these Coffee Cake Muffins are worth the trouble.
I had some very sweet, very delicious honey crisp apples to work with so I really cut back the sugar in this recipe. Also, I don't really like my muffins very sweet, so you may want to adjust the sweetness to your own tastes. Enjoy (the tops and the bottoms)!
Whole Wheat Apple Coffee Cake Muffins
Ingredients
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Instructions
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar says
These muffins look unreal! Love!
somethewiser@gmail.com says
Thanks Katrina! Happy Holidays!
Millie | Add A Little says
This looks so tasty Allison! I love the warm spices!
somethewiser@gmail.com says
Thanks Millie!
Robin says
These were so delicious! Thanks for sharing:0)
somethewiser@gmail.com says
So glad you enjoyed them!
Ed says
Why is it called "coffee" cake? Where's the coffee? Can someone explain?