These scrumptious apple and pecan muffins have a light and moist texture and are sweet to taste. Made from low fat Greek yogurt they're only 143 calories each!
Folks, today's healthy apple and pecan muffin recipe is just delicious!
I would say these are like when dessert meets breakfast.
You see these muffins may just remind you a little of eating apple pie. Which of course would remind you of dessert.
Having dessert for breakfast seems just fine to me!
Although I prefer pecan nuts with apple, you could use walnuts here too.
I find Golden Delcious apples are the best apples to use for this recipe.
However, if you can only get red apples that's fine too.
You can also leave out all the nuts if you like.
The muffins will still remind you of that apple pie!
Just one more thing - this is a muffin recipe, and yes, this is NeilsHealthyMeals.
As I advocate (yawn) in my Healthy Living section, it is all about moderation.
Eat healthy for 80% of the time, have a regular exercise routine.
Then, provided you are at a sensible weight, you should be able to indulge for 20% of the time.
Read all about the 80/20 rule for eating here.
For These Apple And Pecan Muffins You May Need….
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Equipment
- 12 hole muffin tin
- Sieve
- Measuring spoons
- Kitchen scale
- Measuring jug
- Large mixing bowl
- Pyrex mixing glass bowl
- Whisk
- Wooden spoon
- Wooden skewers
- Wire baking rack
This is the 12 hole muffin tin I use. 
As you can see it's relatively inexpensive and it's perfect for all kinds of muffin recipes.
It's made with heavy gauge carbon steel for long lasting performance and comes with a 25 year guarantee!
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Apple and Pecan Muffins Recipe
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Equipment
Ingredients
For the Muffins
- 200 g self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Pinch of salt
- 250 ml low fat Greek yogurt (plain or Greek)
- 75 g light brown soft unrefined cane sugar
- 1 large egg, whisked
- 2 eating apples (e.g. Golden Delicious) (about 100g) peeled, cored and grated
- 50 g chopped pecans
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
For the Topping
- 100 g icing sugar
- 4 teaspoon cold water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C (fan) and line a 12 hole muffin tray with paper cases.
- In a bowl sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and pinch of salt.
- In a separate larger bowl mix together the yogurt, sugar, egg, grated apple, pecan nut and cinnamon.
- Add the dry flour mixture from the first bowl to the larger bowl and fold the ingredients together.
- Spoon the muffin mixture into the muffin trays, just enough mixture to fill ¾ of each hole.
- Bake for 15 – 20 minutes in the centre of an oven until risen and brown. Check the centre of one with a wooden skewer to ensure it comes out clear, and is therefore cooked through.
- Allow to cool a little in the muffin trays and then transfer onto a wire rack.
- Once cooled mix the icing sugar with the water and spoon over the top of each muffin equally.
Shashi @ runninsrilankan
Sounds like an awesome run! Congrats! And these muffins sound so amazing - love the yogurt instead of butter!!
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Thanks Shashi, it was. I loved every moment. I'm just going to keep up my training too and continue to run the 2 10k distances weekly that I was doing for my training and I'll look around the U.K. here for other potential running events! 🙂
I'm so delighted at how these muffins eventually turned out after many tweaks at the recipe, thank you! 🙂
I loved your Chocolate Manicotti Recipe. Wow, that's a winner in my eyes, good luck with your entry I'll be checking back to see how you got on. 😀
Linz @ Itz Linz
those muffins look and sound delicious!
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Thanks for the comment and stopping by Linz.
Yeah. They took a while to perfect, but I'm really happy with them now. 🙂
dana @ IveGotCake
Lookls tempting indeed
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Thanks Dana! 🙂
Angie@Angie's Recipes
These muffins sound and look great for a post workout snack or breakfast on the go.
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Thanks Angie 🙂 , I couldn't agree more with you.
When I was trialling the recipe I took them into work on a Wednesday morning for after my gym run and they were just ticket!