Apple Pie Muffins
Soft, fluffy, and full of good-for-you ingredients like oats, almonds, and apples, these Apple Pie Muffins are the perfect start to your morning! They’re made with almond pulp from your Almond Cow, and have a gooey apple pie filling in the center that will leave you coming back for seconds and thirds.
RUN TIME: 30 min MINS
PREP TIME: 20 min MINS
SERVINGS: 6

Instructions
- 1. To make the apple pie filling, in a large mixing bowl, add the apples, sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest, and cinnamon. Mix to combine.
- 2. Heat a saucepan on medium heat, and cook the apple filling until it gets sticky. This takes about 10 minutes. Set aside to cool.
- 3. To make the cupcake, in a mixing bowl, add the oat flour, almond pulp, coconut sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt, and mix.
- 4. In a separate mixing bowl, add almond milk, lemon juice, coconut oil, and maple syrup, and mix.
- 5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, and mix.
- 6. Line a 6-cup muffin pan with cupcake liners, and pour batter evenly into the cupcake liners.
- 7. Transfer apple pie filling to a piping bag, and pipe the filling into the center of each cupcake.
- 8. Bake on 350F for 20 minutes, or until golden.
Ingredients
- 2 medium granny smith apples, peeled, cored, and diced
- ¼ cup coconut sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- zest of 1 lemon
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- Apple Pie Filling: 2 medium granny smith apples, peeled, cored, and diced
- Apple Pie Filling: ¼ cup coconut sugar
- Apple Pie Filling: 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Apple Pie Filling: zest of 1 lemon
- Apple Pie Filling: ¼ tsp cinnamon
- Cupcake: 2 cups gluten-free oat flour
- Cupcake: ½ cup almond pulp, dried (from almond milk)
- Cupcake: ¼ cup coconut sugar
- Cupcake: ¾ tsp baking soda
- Cupcake: ½ tsp baking powder
- Cupcake: ¼ tsp salt
- Cupcake: ½ cup almond milk
- Cupcake: 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Cupcake: 3 tbsp coconut oil, melted
- Cupcake: ¼ cup maple syrup