Healthy Apple-Walnut Muffins

By Hklbrries

Made with no added fat or sugar, these tasty muffins use fruit and buttermilk to keep them moist.

Baking Tips: Instead of frozen apple juice concentrate, use other bottled fruit juice concentrates. Health food stores generally carry the best variety. Experiment with such interesting flavors as papaya, pineapple, and mango for a tropical taste.

Ingredients

• Garnish:
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp ground allspice
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/4 rounded tsp salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup plus 2 tbsp frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
• 2/3 cup buttermilk
• 2 tbsp oat bran
• 2 small Granny Smith applws, peeled, cored and chopped
• 1/3 cup walnuts, chopped (about 1 1/3 ounces)
• 1 small Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, and cut into 12 thin slices

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 F. Grease 12 standard size muffin-pan cups or line with paper liners.

Mix together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg and salt.

Mix together eggs, apple juice and buttermilk.

Stir flour mixture and oat bran into egg mixture until dry ingredients are just moistened. Do not overmix. Gently stir in chopped apples and nuts.

Spoon batter into prepared pan, filling cups two-thirds full. Garnish each muffin with an apple slice.

Bake muffins until lightly golden and tops spring back when pressed, 25 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack to cool slightly. Turn muffins out onto rack to cool completely.