We kickstarted our holiday muffin series with pure chocolate and cream cheese indulgence. Flour sifted, beater in hand, am ready to share with you yet another magical and scrumptious recipe.
We’re baking Apple Muffins with Coconut Crumble. The combination of apple and coconut is surprisingly divine. The original recipe is from Women’s Weekly and calls for pie apples. I substituted that with homemade caramelized apples. I also change the process a little, I did not add the caramel apples into the batter, opting instead for layers. First the batter, then the caramelized apples and then the coconut crumble. The luscious apples transformed into a perfect topping with just a little sugar and butter.
In the spirit of the holidays and with the promise of indulgence I went one step further and made us a caramel sauce to drizzle on top. The sauce is simple but really adds to the flavor.
Even though these muffins make for a scrumptious snack with your tea, I would highly recommend it served warm, drizzled with a homemade caramel sauce and a dollop of ice cream.
- For the muffin:
- 21/2 cups self raising flour
- ¾ cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 410g can pie apples
- 1 egg
- ⅔ cup buttermilk
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- For the coconut Crumble:
- ¼ cup plain flour
- 11/2 teaspoons caster sugar
- ½ cup flaked coocnut
- 20 grams butter
- For the caramel sauce:
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 cup cream
- 40 grams butter
- Preheat oven to 400F / 200C
- For the coconut crumble:
- Place all the ingredients in a small bowl and rub the butter using your fingertips till it is nice and crumbly. Set aside.
- For the muffins:
- Grease or line a 12 hole muffin pan
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar and cinnamon. Stir in the apple. Do not over mix.
- In a measuring jug or medium bowl, combine egg, buttermilk and oil.
- Pour the buttermilk mixture into the apple mixture and mix gently.
- Assemble:
- Spoon the mixture equally into the prepared pan and top with coconut crumble.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. In the meantime prepare the caramel sauce.
- For the caramel sauce:
- Combine ingredients in a medium saucepan and stir over heat without boiling until the sugar has dissolved.
- Simmer the gas for about 3 minutes without stirring or until the sauce has thickened slightly.
- Serve the muffin warm with a drizzle of caramel sauce and ice cream.
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Happy Baking!
Oh wow, you transformed these muffins into decadent dessert layering the ingredients and adding caramel sauce :) love it!
Yum! What a great combination of flavors! The apples and the caramel make these a perfect fall treat!
What delicious treats these Apple Muffins were to make ! Thanks for doing the round-up, An. As always, baking along with you and the rest of the MM Bakers was lots of fun. Have a Muffin & a Smile to brighten your day :-)
These Apple Buttermilk Muffins have to be the most elegant and sophisticated muffins! I can’t wait to try these…Love this recipe! :)
Oh my, I’m with Pandi here, these look so decadent! I heart caramel and have to try that sauce..and ice cream! yes, please!
Oh, these are indeed scrumptious!!! SO many of my favorite ingredients: apples, coconut and CARAMEL! Mmmmmmm….
You really came up with a wonderful way to serve these. I would have never thought of using a sauce, but I am sure in amps these up quite a bit. This is not your ordinary muffin and deliciously so. Well done!
Oh man, they look WONDERFUL. I’d never think they weren’t intended as is.
I love apple, I love coconut, I love caramel. I’d be curious to taste the apple-coconut combination, which I don’t think I’ve had before, so this is a very intriguing recipe!
love the twist you did on the recipe!! These muffins are fab and with caramel sauce… omg YUM! I took my muffins into work today and everyone loved them!! The flavour combination of apple and coconut works really well. Thanks for letting me bake with you, can’t wait for the next one!
Hey you Miss silly goose when did you manage to bake these?! weren’t we still on squashlove page?! your pace is so fast you youngling! :) btw did I hear coconut?! :)
Heh! I know, weekend is such a blur. between squashlove, muffin monday and now the quick bread series!
your muffins look more like a decadent dessert. i am in love with that caramel sauce you used.
Yum, yum, yum! Great recipe this week! Homemade caramel apples? Yours must have been AMAZING!
Your inventive twist on the original recipe resulted in a beautifully decadent dessert that should definitely not be reserved for morning servings only ;)
Such beautiful muffins this week! I really loved the flavour combination of apple and coconut. I absolutel love the way you modified these, An! Great thinking with the caramel sauce and layering! I had such a crazy weekend, I had to opt for the canned fruit, but they were still wonderful. I can only imagine how much better yours must have been with the caramelized apples!
love the idea of ice cream and caramel sauce on top! sounds like an apple pie muffin to me ;)
These muffins look amazing! Love the idea of layering all of the goodies…must have turned out great! And how can you go wrong with a caramel drizzle?! You can’t :)
WOW! That is amazing! I love the coconut crumble, that is just fantastic. I wouldn’t be able to stop at just one of those yummy muffins!
What a beautiful way to transport these muffins in to something extraordinary!
Ooooh, love the caramel layer. A cross between muffins and bread pudding!
Thank you, as always, for being our hardworking, gracious hostess.
The combination of apple and coconut is such a brilliant idea. These muffins sounds divine!
These are fabulous! I’m loving that coconut crumble and caramel sauce on top!!
Wow – what a GRAND idea to pair coconut and apples! I have to say – I would have never thought of that, but once I saw it, I immediately thought how great they sound together! Brilliant!
Seriously, I want to devour one now! They look amazing:-) I love the coconut crumble:-) Hugs, Terra
I enjoyed this recipe, even though my muffins weren’t the prettiest! Yours look great on the other hand :)
Thanks Bianca! Hoping for a better next week!
Wow these look incredible! My mouth is watering from your post…I wish I could come eat one!
I love all of the layers of flavor in beautiful gem of a muffin. Perfect for a tea party! Congrats on the Top 9 Today!
hooray! not only does this recipe sould phenomenal – it looks gorgeous! What fabulous photography – made my mouth water!!!!!
Mmm…….caramel and apples together are heavenly!
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wow, lovely!
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