Applesauce Muffins

 

This is another recipe my mom has made for years. I mostly remember her making them and taking them to school if it was our turn to bring a snack. They are one of my favorite muffins. Recently another blogger had posted on Facebook that her daughter, who is in 4H, was looking for muffin recipes to make for her project. So we dug up the recipe and I shared it with her. I then decided to make a batch and thought I would share it with all of you as well! I hope you enjoy!

 

Ingredients:
1 c. Butter/margarine softened
2 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 c. applesauce
4 c. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
1 c. powdered sugar

 

 Cream butter

 

Gradually add sugar and beat well

 

Add eggs, 1 at a time and beat

 

 

Add applesauce and mix well

 

 

 

Combine the dry ingredients

 

 

 Add to the creamed mixture and mix well

 

 

 Fill greased muffin pans or cupcake liner lined muffin pans 3/4 full.

 

I used this scoop to scoop out my batter. It is just a 1/2 cup (I'm guessing) Ice Cream scoop. It works so well and the batter comes out of it so easy and it's less messy!

 

 

 

 

Bake at 350 degrees for 14 minutes or until done.

 

 

 

 

Transfer to wire racks and sprinkle with powdered sugar which I forgot to do and didn't realize until the next day!!!! So that's why the ones in the pictures don't have powdered sugar on them.

NOTE: Batter will keep in refrigerator for 1 week.

Yield: 7 dozen mini muffin 3 dozen regular sized muffins

Cinnamon Rolls

If you haven't noticed, from some of my previous posts, that I love to cook! I grew up learning how to cook mostly from my mom. I am so lucky to have learned from her how to cook because so many people I know don't even know how to make the simplest things and that just baffles me! I love going through cookbooks, magazines, recipe websites, and now Pinterest to find new and exciting recipes. So what I would like to start doing is to post a recipe every Monday to share with everyone. I will share some of my personal favorites for you to try and I hope you enjoy them!

The first recipe that I'm going to share with you is a cinnamon roll recipe that my mom has made for years that is truly amazing. A few weeks ago I decided one morning that I was going to try and make them. While I was making them I snapped a few pictures of the process along the way.

Cinnamon Rolls:

Ingredients:

Roll-
6 1/2 oz Milk 80-90 degrees (3/4 cups + 1 tbsp.)
1 Large Egg
3 cups Bread flour - Don't use any thing but bread flour!
3 tbsp. sugar
1/2 tspn. salt
4 tbsp. butter or margarine
2 tbsp. active dry yeast or 1 1/2 tspn. bread machine/fast rise yeast

Filling-
1/3 cup butter or margarine softened
1/3 cup sugar (I used brown sugar and it turned out fine)
2 tspn cinnamon (or just sprinkle on however much you want or that covers surface)

Icing-
1 cup powdered sugar
1-2 tablespoons Milk
1/2 tspn vanilla
1/2 tspn almond extract

Directions- ***The dough recipe is for a bread machine***

1. Add warm milk and egg to pan.
2. Add bread flour, 3 tablespoons sugar and salt to pan. Tap pan to settle dry ingredients, then level ingredients pushing some of the mixture into corners. Place butter in to corners of pan.
3. Make a well in the center of dry ingredients; add yeast. Lock pan into bread machine.

4.Program your bread machine for "Dough". Start bread maker. When done, remove pan from machine. Place dough on floured surface. Knead dough about 1 minute, then let rest 15 minutes.

(Still in Pan)

5. Roll dough into a rectangle about 15x10 inches. Spread 1 1/3 cup softened butter over dough to within 1 inch of edges. Then sprinkle 1/3 cup sugar and the cinnamon evenly over dough.

 

6. Roll dough up into a 12 inch long, evenly shaped roll. With a knife cut roll into 1 inch pieces. The way I did it was cut it in half then each of the halves cut into half again and then cut each of the 4 pieces into 3 1 inch pieces.

 

 

7. Place rolls into a greased 9x13 inch pan. Cover and let rise in warm, draft-free place until doubled in size, about 30-40 minutes.

8. Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

Please disregard the ugly one in the corner :)

9. Cool in pan for about 10-15 minutes
10. To make the icing; mix all of the icing ingredients together then drizzle over the cooled rolls.

11. Enjoy!