Apples from the garden

I mentioned these muffins I made at the weekend in yesterday's post, and to be completely honest, I have to write down the recipe straight away or else I might forget it! The muffins are now all gone... I'm already thinking of making another batch..

The muffins were a bit of an experiment to be fair. Basically, we've got a wonky little apple tree growing in the back garden and the apples looked pretty good and ready to me on Sunday. So I plucked three to see what they were worth. We're pretty sure they're cooking apples, and I didn't feel adventurous enough to bite into one, so I decided to cook with them. "Cook" in the loosest sense of the word. I made muffins for goodness sake.

I used a Nigella Kitchen recipe as a basis and totally adapted it to what I had at hand and the fact that I'm pretty lazy. And don't own a dishwasher, so I did my utmost to only use one bowl. Washing up takes up waaayyyyy too much time in my life right now. Anyway. Here's what I used, and here's what I did.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 100g honey (place your bowl on a scale!)
• 100g vegetable oil (place your bowl on a scale!)
• 125g light brown sugar
• 3 small apples, peeled, cored, chopped
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 140g plain flour
• 110g wholemeal flour

Method:

• Preheat your oven to 160degreesC.
• Line a muffin tray with cases. This makes 12 muffins by the way.
• Mix the sugar and the wet ingredients in a bowl.
• Add the apples.
• Mix.
• Add all the dry ingredients.
• Mix.
• Plonk the mixture into your lined tray.
• Bake for 20min.
• Leave to cool down for 5min in the tray then transfer to a wire rack. Scoff the lot 30min later.