Description
An adapted recipe that my wife thinks is amazing.
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ½ cup cinnamon-flavored applesauce
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup plain Greek yogurt
- ¼ cup orange juice
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 (6 ounce) package sweetened dried cranberries
- ½ cup chopped pecans
- ¼ cup white sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 24 muffin cups or line with paper liners.
- Beat butter
- applesauce
- 1 cup white sugar
- and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl until smooth and creamy. Mix in eggs and vanilla extract
- then stir in sour cream
- Greek yogurt
- and orange juice until thoroughly combined. Whisk flour
- baking powder
- baking soda
- nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- and salt in a separate bowl. Gently stir the flour mixture into the wet ingredients just until moistened; fold in cranberries and pecans.
- Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups
- filling them 2/3 full. Combine 1/4 cup sugar with 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon in a bowl and sprinkle the cinnamon sugar over the muffins.
- Bake in the preheated oven until muffins are lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean or with moist crumbs
- 20 to 25 minutes. Cool muffins in pans for 10 minutes before turning out to finish cooling on wire racks.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 24