I was in the mood for something fun for breakfast this morning, but couldn't quite decide what. I started looking around at different recipes, but found reasons to count out everything... didn't want a yeast recipe, because I didn't want it to take that long. Didn't want french toast because we only had three eggs in the house... and so on and so on. Then I saw a recipe for apple fritters, and that looked really good. Only I didn't want something fried. So I googled "baked apple fritters," just to see what I would find. One of the first hits, though, was someone pointing out that if you don't fry it, you can't call it a fritter. Doesn't mean you can't do it, doesn't mean it isn't delicious, but it really isn't a fritter. So when I changed my search term to "baked apple donuts," I had many more recipes from which to choose.
And that is when I came across this recipe. Looked easy, looked
Little miss happily picked out the three best apples out of our bag, then helped me get down to business mearuring and mixing.
The most time
Apples done, though, the rest of the recipe was very simple, and came together very quickly. I did make one change to the recipe, though. As it is written, once these come out of the oven, they are dipped into melted butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar. Yum, right? But remember how I didn't want fritters because they're fried? Some how, dousing these muffins in a whole stick of melted butter defeated the purpose, in my mind at least, of not frying them. But, well, yum, right? So instead, I melted a few tablespoo
These were delicious. Do they count as a fruit serving for the day, too? Because these made an excellent breakfast (brunch) and will definitely be made again. And be breakfast tomorrow morning, too.
Baked Apple Donuts
(only minorly adapted from Tasty Kitchen)
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup butter
2 large eggs, beaten
1 cup milk
2 cups cored and finely diced apples
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray.
With a fork, mix together flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Add 1/2 cup butter and mix until it is broken up. Set aside.
In another bowl, combine eggs, milk and diced apples. Add this to the dry ingredients and mix until just blended.
Spoon the batter into greased muffin pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until muffins are light to medium brown.
While donuts are baking, melt the two tablespoons of butter and set aside. Combine remaining sugar and cinnamon.
When the donut muffins come out of the oven, brush the tops with the melted butter, then sprinkle them with the cinnamon sugar.
Enjoy!
Can it be a donut without a hole? Who cares when it tastes as good as these sound.
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