Applesauce Blender Muffins
These easy applesauce blender muffins are soft, warmly spiced and ready in just 30 minutes—simply blend the batter, pour and bake!
Every apple season, the Southern husband and I head to our favorite apple orchard and attempt to pick apples slowly and sensibly. Somehow, we still come home with three pecks—which is a whole lotta apples for two people!
Three pecks of apples inevitably lead to a giant vat of homemade applesauce. And after we’ve eaten plenty and handed mason jars to everyone we know, it’s time to turn some of that applesauce into these soft, warmly spiced muffins. Everything goes right into the blender, and 30 minutes later—muffins!
I love making them with that homemade applesauce, but store-bought applesauce works perfectly too.
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🔎 A quick look at this recipe
- What It Is: Soft, warmly spiced applesauce muffins with an easy batter made right in the blender.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Servings: 12 servings
- Calories: 142
- Cooking Method: Oven
- Good For: Breakfast, brunch, after-school snacks and apple season baking
⭐️ Why this recipe works
- 🍎 Soft and flavorful: Applesauce gives these muffins a tender texture and plenty of cozy apple flavor.
- 🌀 Blender-easy: The entire batter comes together in the blender, making prep and cleanup a snap.
- ✨ Warmly spiced: Cinnamon, nutmeg and a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar make every bite taste like fall.
- ⏱️ Ready in 30 minutes: These speedy muffins go from blender to breakfast table in half an hour.
- 🛒 Everyday ingredients: You can make them with homemade or store-bought applesauce and a handful of pantry staples.
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📝 Ingredient notes
- Applesauce: Homemade or store-bought applesauce will both work beautifully. I recommend unsweetened applesauce so the muffins don’t become overly sweet.
- Self-rising flour: This flour already contains baking powder and salt, which give the muffins their light, fluffy texture. Make sure you use self-rising rather than regular all-purpose flour.
- Regular and brown sugar: Regular sugar adds sweetness, while brown sugar brings a hint of molasses flavor and extra moisture.
- Cinnamon and nutmeg: These warm spices give the muffins their cozy fall flavor. Nutmeg is potent, so that little half teaspoon is all you need!
- Cinnamon sugar: Look for cinnamon sugar in the spice aisle, or make your own by stirring together regular sugar and a little ground cinnamon. It adds a sweet, lightly crunchy topping to the muffins.
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Easy applesauce muffins dusted with cinnamon sugar…happy apple season!
🤔 Recipe FAQs
Yes! For this recipe, whisk together 1½ cups all-purpose flour with 2¼ teaspoons baking powder and ¼ teaspoon salt. Use this mixture in place of the self-rising flour.
Either will work, but I recommend unsweetened applesauce because the batter already contains both regular and brown sugar.
You can. Whisk the wet ingredients and sugars together in a mixing bowl, stir in the spices and flour just until combined, and then continue with the recipe as written.
Lightly coat the paper liners with cooking spray before adding the batter. Letting the baked muffins cool for a few minutes also makes the liners easier to remove.
Keep the cooled muffins in an airtight container at room temperature for up to three days. You can also freeze them in a freezer-safe bag for up to three months and thaw them at room temperature.
Pop your question in the Comments section under the recipe card and I will answer pronto!
Let’s blend up some apple season!
Applesauce Blender Muffins
This easy recipe for applesauce blender muffins is a quick and delicious snack for apple season or anytime, and the blender makes them a snap to whip up!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 12 muffins 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup regular sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 cup applesauce
- Cinnamon sugar for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and line a 12 cup muffin tin with paper liners. Spray the liners with cooking spray.
- Put all ingredients except for cinnamon sugar in your blender and blend for 30 seconds, stopping halfway through to stir the mixture and scrape down the inside of the blender.
- Pour the muffin batter into the muffin tin and sprinkle each muffin with a pinch of cinnamon sugar.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool just a little and then eat the first ones while they are still warm!
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Hi,
Just a quick question. Does it have to be self-rising flour or will just plain old white flour work?
Thanks
Hi there! You do need to use self-rising flour because that’s what gives the muffins their fluffy texture. But if you don’t have any on hand, it’s super easy to make – here’s a quick method from the always wonderful folks at King Arthur! https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/homemade-self-rising-flour-recipe
These sound amazing! Applesauce always makes the best baked goods!
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Thanks Luci! Yay for applesauce!
I have 2 apple trees that are loaded with apples and ready to pick.I will also be making vats and vats of applesauce. This will be a good recipe to have on hand to use up some of that stuff. Thanks!
Oh, how would love to have an apple tree! Pick some for me!