How to Make Apple and Nuts Muffins | Quick-Spice.com | Food hack

Children's favorite muffins are available in many flavors in the market, but the taste of the muffins made at home is unique. Apple and nuts muffins made from nuts, apples, vanilla essence, etc. are very soft and tasty. Surprise your children by making these muffins on any holiday or special occasion and see smiles on their faces.

Ingredients:

•     Apple - 1 (Medium) (200 grams)
•     Refined Flour/ Maida - ½ cup (125 grams)
•     Curd - ½ cup
•     Butter (butter) - less than ½ cup (75 grams)
•     Sugar - ½ cup (100 grams)
•     Almonds - 10 to 12
•     Walnuts - 2 tbsp
•     Powdered sugar - 2 tbsp
•     Baking Powder - 1 tsp
•     Baking soda - 4 tsp
•     Cardamom - 4
•     Vanilla essence

Method - How to make Apple Nut Muffins:

To make Apple Nuts Muffins. First, peel off the apple skin. After that, grate it.
Peel cardamom and grind the seeds and mix powdered sugar in it. The powdered sugar-cardamom mixture is ready.

Prepare apple sauce:
Heat a pan on the gas. Put grated apple and sugar in a hot pan. Cook it till the sugar dissolves well and becomes a saucy texture. Keep the gas slow.

Keep stirring the sauce in the pan. Apple sauce is ready as soon as the apples are very transparent and sugar syrup dissolves nicely in the apple, turn off the gas.
Once the apple sauce is ready, then prepare the nuts. Cut almonds into 6 to 7 pieces and walnuts into small pieces. 

Make batter:
Put butter and apple sauce in a big bowl. Mix both the ingredients till well mixed. Take refined flour in a separate big bowl and add baking soda and baking powder to it. Mix all the things well.

After this, put the maida-baking soda-baking powder mixture into the sauce-butter mixture. Add some curd to it and mix all the ingredients properly. Then, add nuts to it and mix until well combined. After adding the nuts, add ½ tsp vanilla essence to the mixture and mix it. The batter is ready for the muffins.

Bake muffins:
For this, first, preheat the microwave to 180 degrees centigrade on the convection mode. Grease the molds of the muffins maker (tray) with some butter. Then, put a little dry flour in these molds, shake it, and spread a thin layer of flour. This allows the muffins to be pulled out easily. Then, flip the tray upside down and dust the extra flour in a bowl.

After this, fill each part of the tray with 3/4 parts of the batter, leave the mold slightly empty. Press the batter with a spoon and make it uniform. Now, place the tray in the microwave and bake at convection mode for 20 minutes at 180 degrees centigrade.

Check the muffins after 20 minutes. The muffins will be light brown on top. Make a check with a knife. If the knife comes out of the mixture clean, then the muffins are baked. If the batter is stuck to the knife, then the muffins are left raw from inside. Bake them for 4 more minutes. Then, check; the muffins must be golden brown and ready. It takes about 24 minutes for the muffins to be fully baked.

After the muffins cool down a bit, sprinkle the powdered sugar-cardamom mixture over the muffins using a sieve. Apple nuts muffins are ready; you can keep them in the refrigerator and enjoy them for 3 to 4 days.

Advice:

• You can also add cashew nuts or other nuts in these muffins.
• For muffins, milk can also be used instead of yogurt.
• There is a slight difference in the baking time of different ovens/microwaves. Therefore, bake the muffins for 15 or 20 minutes first, then check them and bake them for a long time until they turn golden brown.