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Autumn is the perfect season for apple cinnamon muffins. Those are absolutely delicious with a nice cup of green tea.
Each time I eat one of those delicious and moist apple cinnamon muffins, I struggle a lot resisting the temptation to eat more than one! Personnaly I think it is my best recipe so far.
Ingredients for these apple cinnamon muffins
- Fresh Apples
- Apple sauce : make sure to use unsweetened apple sauce
- Tigernut flour : This recipe uses tigernut flour (or almond flour for those who are not on AIP). If you are on AIP and still in the elimination phase, unfortunately there are no possible substitution for the tigernut flour. Why? Because all the other AIP compliant flours have very different texture and they all need their own amount of liquid. So it is not possible to replace the tigernut flour with another flour without altering the entire recipe.
- Arrowroot : it is a starch. If you are not cassava intolerant, you can substitute it with tapioca starch (also called tapioca flour). Other possible substitutions, only if you are not on AIP nor Paleo diets: you can use potato starch or corn starch instead of arrowroot.
- Maple syrup : If you want to reduce the maple syrup quantity in this recipe, I suggest replacing it by same quantity of oil of your choice
- Apples : use sweet apples like Fuji or Gala
- Oil of your choice: I either use extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil
- Baking soda
- Lemon juice (or apple cider vinegar)
- Cinnamon
How to make apple cinnamon muffins
In a large bowl, combine the tigernut flour, arrow root, baking soda and cinnamon. Stir.
In another large bowl, combine the apple sauce, maple syrup, lemon juice (or ACV) and olive oil . Mix until combined.
Peel and cut the apples in small pieces.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix until well combined. Then add the apple pieces and mix again.
Line or lightly oil a muffin pan. Fill each muffin cup with batter, you should get about 6-8 muffins depending on your pan.
Bake for about 20-25 minutes. To make sure that they are cooked, insert a thin bladed knife into the centre of one muffin, the knife should come out clean. And voilà! Let them cool down before removing them from the pan. Bon appétit!
About substitutions
This recipe uses tigernut flour (or almond flour for those who are not on AIP). If you are on AIP and still in the elimination phase, unfortunately there are no possible substitution for the tigernut flour. Why? Because all the other AIP compliant flours have very different texture and they all need their own amount of liquid. So it is not possible to replace the tigernut flour with another flour without altering the entire recipe.
On the other hand, if you are not on AIP nor nut intolerant you can subsitute almond flour for tigernut flour on a 1:1 basis.
If you don't have a muffin pan or simply don't fell like having muffins, you can make this as a loaf instead of muffins.
Can you freeze these apple cinnamon muffins?
Yes! They freeze extremely well. Which is so convenient!! So nice to have a delicious snack or dessert that is ready to be eaten in the freezer (ok just need to be defrost). About defreezing one of these delicious muffins, you can either take it out of the freezer a few hours ahead or pop it in the microwave oven (if you still have one, like me, and yes I know that they are very controversial health wise but nobody's perfect lol) for 1 minute or pop it in the oven for a few minutes.
Please let me know if you try this recipe by leaving a comment or by tagging me on Instagram or whatever : I'm always happy to have your feedback. And do not hesitate to share this recipe!
Other recipes you might like
If you are looking for more tigernut flour / almond flour recipes you can check the following recipes :
Cheryl
Can you clarify the maple syrup amount? The recipe lists one thing and the notes list an astronomical amount. I'm confused.
gohealthywithbea
Oops! I'm deeply sorry. It is now fixed. the right amount or maple syrup for this recipe is 2 Tbsp.
Kathryn Sanchez
Could pear be substituted for apple?
gohealthywithbea
Hello Kathryn. I'm afraid that pears might be too watery to replace apple in this recipe. If you can't or won't have apples you can try my banana blueberry muffin recipe which is pretty similar to this recipe. Or if you want a dessert with pears, you can try my pear and carob tart or my pear and chocolate tart.