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    You are here: Home / Recipes / Apple Streusel Muffins with Applesauce

    Apple Streusel Muffins with Applesauce

    BY: Courtney PUBLISHED: Nov 1, 2016 Leave a Comment UPDATED ON: Feb 3, 2018

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    Our Apple Streusel Muffins with Applesauce are moist, packed with flavor, and a tasty recipe to pair with breakfast. Make your favorite delicious and flavorful fall desserts healthier by using applesauce instead of oil and butter.

    If you’re looking for an easy applesauce muffin that is filled with flavor this is it! We use applesauce and fresh apples in this applesauce muffin recipe.

    This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Mott’s.  The opinions and text are all mine. #MottsAppleswap

    Our Apple Streusel Muffins with Mott’s® Applesauce are moist, packed with flavor, and a tasty recipe to pair with breakfast. Make your favorite delicious and flavorful fall desserts healthier by using Mott’s® Applesauce instead of oil and butter. We really enjoy making this recipe!

    Apple Streusel Muffins

    We have passed down the sweet tooth to my mini chef. She loves her sweets! She’ll wake up asking for muffins or a cookie because daddy takes her to get a bagel and cookie on his day off. So what’s a mama to do? How do I compete with that, but still keep it healthy-ish?

    Helloooooooo, Mott’s® Applesauce!

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    By using Mott’s® Applesauce from Walmart I can cut the calories, reduce the sugar, fat, sodium, cholesterol, and completely nix the oil. Mott’s® Applesauce is a healthy substitute for baking, especially during the holidays when we’re baking as often as the leaves are falling. Boom, like that I’m super mom, cool mom, hip mom, all thanks to Mott’s® Applesauce. 🙂

    applesauce muffinsApple Streusel Muffins with Applesauce, nix fat, not flavor.

    Want more muffin recipes? Try our chocolate chip muffins recipe!

    I’ve swapped applesauce in cakes, cupcakes, pancakes, but my favorite swap is muffins during the fall. You get the apple flavor, and you get the moist texture in your baked goods without the oil! In fact, most recipes you see that have oil or butter, you can swap with applesauce. You really won’t notice much of a difference unless it’s in a cookie recipe. It works fabulously in the things we mentioned like the cakes, cupcakes, pancakes, and muffins.

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    I’m happy that my family can enjoy a healthy muffin with breakfast and my husband can even take one of the muffins to work with him! To make it an even healthier treat I load it with fresh chopped apples. The apples get tender and it’s just the perfect fall muffin recipe.

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    Our Apple Streusel Muffins with Applesauce are moist, packed with flavor, and a tasty recipe to pair with breakfast. Make your favorite delicious and flavorful fall desserts healthier by using applesauce instead of oil and butter.

    Apple Streusel Muffins with Applesauce

    Author: Courtney
    If you're looking for an easy applesauce muffin that is filled with flavor this is it! We use applesauce and fresh apples in this applesauce muffin recipe.
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    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 30 minutes minutes
    Servings: 16
    Calories: 130kcal

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup all-purpose flour
    • 1 cup pastry flour
    • 2 teaspoons baking powder
    • 1/4 teaspoon salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin seasoning
    • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
    • 1 cup Mott’s® Original Applesauce
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 1/8 cup milk
    • 3/4 cup sugar
    • 2 large eggs
    • 2 apples , peeled, chopped

    Streusel Topping

    • 1 tablespoon Mott’s® Original Applesauce
    • 1/8 cup old fashioned rolled oats
    • 1/8 cup flour
    • 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
    • 1 tablespoon cane sugar
    • 1/2 tsp powdered cinnamon
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    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
    • In a large bowl mix the flour, baking powder, salt, pumpkin seasoning and cinnamon.
    • Once combined add in the applesauce, vanilla, milk, sugar, and stir until combined.
    • Fold in the apples and then place into a muffin tin.
    • Mix streusel ingredients and top muffins.
    • Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

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    Nutrition

    Calories: 130kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 2g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 46mg | Potassium: 134mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 45IU | Vitamin C: 1.2mg | Calcium: 32mg | Iron: 0.9mg

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    I found Mott’s® Applesauce right at my local Walmart and it’s less than $2! It’s not just for eating with a spoon, it’s for baking too! 🙂

    Our Apple Streusel Muffins with Applesauce are moist, packed with flavor, and a tasty recipe to pair with breakfast. Make your favorite delicious and flavorful fall desserts healthier by using applesauce instead of oil and butter.

    POSTED IN: Desserts Recipes

    About Courtney

    Family, Food, and Photography are Courtney's passions and you'll see all of that on this blog. She is happily married to her husband Chris and together they have two amazing kiddos!

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