Name: Apple Walnut Muffins
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Streusel:; 3 tablespoons cold butter; 5 tablespoons flour; 4 tablespoons sugar; ½ teaspoons cinnamon; ¼ cup walnuts, chopped; Muffins:; 2 eggs, room tempurature; ½ cup olive oil; 2 tablespoons sour cream; ½ cup applesauce; ½ cup pear puree; 1 ⅔ cups flour; ½ cup sugar; 1 teaspoon baking powder; ½ teaspoon baking soda; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; ½ teaspoon ginger; ¼ teaspoon nutmeg; ¾ cup walnuts, chopped

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Perfect for Fall, these Apple Walnut muffins are a yummy treat or great for a quick breakfast.

Looking for a treat guaranteed to satisfy your sweet tooth? This super easy recipe for apple walnut muffins has you covered. These healthy muffins can be made with walnuts or pecans, your choice.

Make a batch on the weekend and have some on hand for a fast breakfast that’s healthy and filling. Or, grab a muffin or two to enjoy along with a hot cup of coffee on a cool afternoon.

Apple Walnut muffins with streusel topping in a basket — These delicious Apple Walnut muffins have a streusel topping.

Why You’ll Love these Apple Walnut Streusel Muffins

These muffins are easy to make with a delicious apple flavor, plus they are full of healthy ingredients along with your choice of nuts (or choose to use both types of nuts).

The muffins freeze well, too, so it’s easy to make a double batch and freeze together or individually to grab as needed.

Be sure to use muffin liners – not only will they make clean up a breeze, but they are great for keeping your fingers clean while noshing on these treats.

Apple Walnut Muffin Recipe Ingredients

Muffin Ingredients:

eggs
olive oil
sour cream
applesauce
pear puree
all purpose flour
sugar
baking powder
baking soda
salt
cinnamon
ginger
nutmeg
chopped walnuts

Streusel Topping Ingredients:

butter
flour
sugar
cinnamon
walnuts

Apple Muffin Instructions

Streusel topping mixed together in a bowl — Mix together the Streusel ingredients.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Get a muffin tin and set in the paper liners. Mix all streusel ingredients in a small bowl, until crumbly, then set this mixture aside for later.

Beaten eggs with oil, sour cream and vanilla in a bowl. — Vanilla and sour cream added to beaten eggs and oil.

In a large bowl use hand mixer or whisk to beat eggs and olive oil, then add in vanilla & sour cream. Now stir in both the applesauce and the pear puree and mix together well.

Mixing together the eggs, oil, spices, sugar and flour for muffins — Adding in the dry ingredients.

Now it’s time for the dry ingredients. Mix in flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, stirring together well. Also, stir in the walnuts, again mixing together well.

Muffins with streusel topping ready for baking — Top each muffin with some streusel topping before baking.

Scoop batter into muffin liners, then sprinkle on the streusel topping onto each of the muffins.

Bake 15-20 minutes until golden brown and toothpick in center comes out clean. Remove the muffins from the pans. Let muffins cool completely on a wire rack before serving (if you can wait that long!)

Baked muffin in a muffin liner. — Let muffins cool before serving.

Don’t they look delicious? What a treat for a cool Fall morning!

Why not make up a batch this weekend and just pop any leftovers in the freezer? Your family will love these – guaranteed!

Apple Walnut Muffins with a streusel topping in a basket. — Click to save to your Pinterest board.

Substitutions and Variations:

You can easily substitute whole wheat flour for all purpose flour in this recipe.

Switch out maple syrup for the oil for more delicious flavor.

You could also substitute coconut oil for the olive oil.

If you want to use apples instead of apple sauce, a variety like Granny Smith apples work well. Other apples that will work well include Jonagold, Golden Delicious and Honey Crisp.

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