Healthy Apple Muffins

4.87 from 60 votes

A Healthy Apple Muffin Recipe that is easy to make and low calorie. Made with cinnamon, greek yogurt & whole wheat flour - they're so yummy!

Prep Time15

Cook Time20

Total Time35

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: healthy apple cinnamon muffins, healthy apple muffins

Servings: muffins

Calories: 178kcal

Author: Liz Marino

Ingredients

⅓ cup applesauce
⅓ cup melted coconut oil
⅓ cup maple syrup
¼ cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
⅓ cup nonfat Greek yogurt
2 eggs
¼ cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
2 cups Bob's Red Mill Whole Wheat Flour do not use stone ground version
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1.5 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
⅛ teaspoon salt
2 cups apples thinly sliced then chopped into small pieces about 2 apples -you don’t want chunks

Streusel Topping (Optional)

1 tablespoon melted butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425.
In a bowl mix together applesauce, oil, maple syrup, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla, Greek yogurt and milk.
Once it’s combined add in the 2 cups of whole wheat flour (add half cup at a time until just mixed), cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Gently fold in the apple chunks with a spatula.
Optional: Mix together topping ingredients.
Add muffin liners to a muffin tin. Spray with cooking spray for good measure . These muffins rise high and the edges can stick if you don’t spray the whole tin.
Scoop the muffin batter into 12 muffin cups.
Add the streusel topping just evenly distributing it onto each muffin.
Bake at 425 degrees for 5 minutes then turn the oven down to 350 for 14 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Important: the different temperatures allow this muffin to rise high!
Allow to cool for 15 minutes on a wire rack. Enjoy.

Notes

Substitutions for this recipe:

Applesauce: We don't recommend substituting the applesauce. Banana or pumpkin might work but we can't recommend it.

Oil:You can use extra virgin olive oil, vegetable oil, avocado oil or melted butter.

Maple Syrup: You can substitute maple syrup for honey

Brown Sugar: You can substitute coconut sugar but it is not as good! Brown sugar and coconut sugar have the exact same amount of calories.

Nonfat Greek Yogurt: We do not recommend substituting Greek yogurt in this recipe. It tenderizes the whole wheat flour and works like a buttermilk would.

Egg free: I have not tried making these muffins egg free. I think subbing flax eggs would work, but I'm not sure.

Milk: You can use any regular milk or nut milk in place of the almond milk

Whole Wheat Flour: We don't recommend using other flours in this recipe. Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1:1 may work but we haven't tried it so can't be sure.

Apples: We haven't tried this recipe with other fruit but I think pears would work interchangeably here. You can check out our Healthy Blueberry Muffin Recipe or The Best Healthy Zucchini Bread Muffins if you're looking for other healthy muffin recipes.

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