Applesauce Muffins

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups applesauce
• 4 cups all-purpose flour or 5 cups freshly ground soft wheat flour or 5 cups oat flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
• cinnamon sugar (optional)

Recipe

• 1 in a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. add eggs and vanilla; mix well.
• 2 stir in applesauce.
• 3 combine the flour, baking soda and spices;.
• 4 stir into creamed mixture.
• 5 fold in nuts.
• 6 fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full.
• 7 bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• 8 cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.
• 9 sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar if desired. yield: about 2 dozen.