Sourdough Discard Apple Cinnamon Muffins

Are you on team pumpkin or team apple? Well team apple, go ahead and give these sourdough discard apple cinnamon muffins a try. They are absolutely delicious and taste like fall. The ingredients are all pantry staples and it takes only 1 apple.

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Muffin Mornings

When I was a kid, my mom would buy the muffin mixes in the blue package. Some mornings she would surprise us with warm muffins for breakfast. It was a very special treat, especially on a school morning. My favorite was apple cinnamon. Once in a great while she would get fancy and add a streusel topping. It was better than anything from a bakery.

I’ve made lots of sourdough breakfast foods like pancakes, waffles, and bagels. But I wanted to have a muffin morning, just like my mom used to do for us. Of course now I prefer to use sourdough for the health benefits. Thus a recipe was born.

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Why Sourdough?

Sourdough was used by people to leaven bread before they were able to go to the store and by those little yeast packets. Sourdough is the old-fashioned yeast packet. 

Grains contain phytic acid, but our bodies don’t really process it well. Phytic acid prevents our bodies from absorbing the nutrients from our food. Fermentation gets rid of most, if not all of the phytic acid, in the grains before we eat them. The fermentation process also helps break down some gluten, so although the bread isn’t gluten free it does have a lower gluten content. This allows people like me, who are sensitive to gluten, to eat sourdough. It also acts like a probiotic, which makes it great for gut health. Sourdough has prebiotic characteristics as well, which simply means that the good bacteria in your gut enjoy eating the fiber.

Sourdough Discard Apple Cinnamon Muffins Recipe

Ingredients

1 ½ cups flour

⅔ cup sugar

1 tablespoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

1 egg

⅓ cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ cup melted butter

2 teaspoons cinnamon

½ cup sourdough discard

1 apple

Instructions

1. First mix together 1 ½ cups flour, ⅔ cup sugar, 1 tablespoon baking powder, ¼ teaspoon salt, and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon. 
2. Next you will need to peel, core, and chop the apple. You will want ½ inch pieces. 
3. Then add 1 egg, ⅓ cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, ½ cup melted butter, ½ cup sourdough discard, and the chopped apple. Mix everything together in the KitchenAid mixer. This batter will be lumpy and that’s ok. Don’t overmix or they will not turn out well. 
4. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line your muffin cups with silicone or parchment liners. Fill each cup ¾ of the way full. If you want to add streusel topping, do that now. Then bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. 

Streusel Topping for Sourdough Discard Apple Cinnamon Muffins

I highly recommend you add a streusel topping to the sourdough discard apple cinnamon muffins. They are delicious without it, but the topping really makes them taste like something from a bakery. 

In a small bowl use a pastry cutter or fork to blend together ¼ cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons softened butter, and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon. Sprinkle it on top of the muffins before baking.

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