Best Upside Down Apple Cinnamon Muffins Recipes

EASY APPLE CINNAMON MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease six muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
• Stir together 1 1/2 cup flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt, baking powder and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Mix in oil, egg and milk. Fold in apples. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling to the top of the cup.
• In a small bowl, stir together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, butter and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix together with fork and sprinkle over unbaked muffins.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.

UPSIDE-DOWN CARAMEL-APPLE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Generously grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
• In a large skillet over medium-high heat, stir together the apples, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 8 tablespoons butter and pinch salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the apples are tender, about 15 minutes. Distribute the apple slices among the muffin cups. Add walnuts, if using, on top of the apple slices.
• To make the muffins, in a large bowl, whisk together flour, 3/4 cup brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon salt.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together 8 tablespoons butter, eggs, sour cream and vanilla. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and fold together until smooth. Distribute the batter on top of the apples. Bake until the muffins are slightly puffed, about 20 to 22 minutes.
• Allow the muffins to cool partly in the pan; turn onto a platter and serve warm or at room temperature.

PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. Drain pineapple, reserving 1 tablespoon juice. Set pineapple aside., In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, whisk eggs, yogurt, oil and reserved pineapple juice. Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened. Fold in reserved pineapple., Fill greased mini-muffin cups two-thirds full. Sprinkle tops with brown sugar; top with halved cherries., Bake 9-12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm.

APPLE CINNAMON MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking powder and cinnamon. Mix together.
• Add all remaining ingredients and stir until flour mixture is moistened.
• Spoon batter into 2 greased or paper-lined 12-cup muffin pans.
• Bake at 375 for 19-23 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool for about 5 minutes before removing from pan.

APPLE CINNAMON MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the first six ingredients. In another bowl, combine the egg, milk, oil and applesauce. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in apple. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. For topping, combine brown sugar and flour. cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in oats and nuts. Sprinkle over muffins. Bake at 400° for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm.

UPSIDE-DOWN CARAMEL APPLE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Stir apples, brown sugar, butter, and salt in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and syrupy, about 30 minutes. Stir in walnuts.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a muffin tin; divide apple mixture among muffin cups.
• Whisk flour, brown sugar, baking powder, apple pie spice, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl. Make a small well in the center and set aside.
• Combine butter, applesauce, buttermilk, egg, and vanilla extract. Pour into the well in the flour mixture. Mix until just combined; batter should be lumpy. Pour batter over apple mixture in the muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of each muffin. Carefully flip pan onto a serving platter; serve hot.

UPSIDE DOWN APPLE CINNAMON MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375º.
• Generously spray 12 muffin tins.
• Mix together the 4 tablespoons of sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon; sprinkle less than a teaspoon of this mixture into each tin.
• Reserve rest for layering in the batter.
• Stir together apple and honey.
• Spoon about 2 tablespoons of the apple mixture into each muffin cup.
• In a medium size bowl, lightly spoon flour into measuring cups, and level with a knife.
• Combine flour and the next 3 ingredients (flour through salt) in this bowl, stirring well with a whisk.
• Make a well in center of flour mixture.
• In another medium size bowl, combine the yogurt, butter, milk, and egg in a bowl, stirring well with a whisk.
• Add yogurt mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until moist.
• It will be thick.
• Spoon half the batter into each tin, sprinkle on some reserved cinnamon sugar, and top with remaining batter.
• Top with the reserved cinnamon sugar.
• Bake at 375º for 20 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in the pan for 15 minutes.
• Flip the pan onto a wire rack WITHOUT removing the pan immediately.
• Even if the apples do stay in the pan, simply spoon them onto the top of the muffins.