Apple Strudel Muffins!

Using up the extra large bag of Macintosh apples from Costco has been much harder than I anticipated... In an effort to use some of these delicious apples up, I found this yummy sounding muffin recipe! This recipe far surpassed my expectations and turned out really great... Not to mention the incredibly delicious aroma they leave in the house, YUM! This recipe yields a batch of 12 muffins, just the right amount!

Ingredients 

2 cups of flour 
1 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 cup of butter, room temperature 
1 cup of white sugar
2 eggs 
1-1/4 tsp of pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups of chopped apples (I used 2 large MacIntosh apples, yielded slightly more than a cup and a half)

1/3 cup of packed brown sugar 
1 tbsp of flour
1/4 tsp of ground cinnamon 
1 tbsp of cold butter, cut up into little morsels

Preheat the oven to 375F. Insert muffin papers into muffin pan. In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar and eggs until smooth. Mix in vanilla/ Stir in apples, and gradually blend in the flour mixture.

Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin pan.

In a small bowl, mix brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until the mixture is like course crumbs. Sprinkle over tops of mixtures in muffin pan.

Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Allow to sit for 5 minutes before moving to a wire cooling rack. Pleasant Surprise!