If you have an apple or two too many in the fruit tray that are constantly left behind in favor of a new one – let it go and use it/them in a cake 😉

Ingredients

Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees

1 big or two smaller cored and finely chopped apples. No need to discard the skin if they have not been subject to massive pesticide control.

100 ml vegetable oil

1 egg

150 ml milk

1 tsp vanilla essence

250 g flour

50 g sugar

50 g brown sugar

1 tbsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 good handful chopped nuts – I prefer hassle nuts.

Sugar mixed with cinnamon to top the muffins

Method

Core and finely chop or grate the apples. If you have a chopper, use this.

In a bowl, mix together the egg, milk, oil and vanilla essence. In a seperate bowl, mix together the dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, sugars and salt. Poor the egg mixture into the dry mix ingredients and mix quickly and not too much!…just so much so that all the ingredients are wet.

Add the chopped nuts and apple and again – mix lightly.

Distribute the mixture evenly between 12 muffin cups (12 muffin pan). Sprinkle the muffins with approximately 1/4-1/2 tsp cinnamon sugar each. Bake in the oven for approximately 20 min.