These are my apples from the farmers market on Saturday.
I bought apples because I saw an instagram of an apple muffin on wingandaprayerfarm which I found when I was looking at housewrenstudio's photos of her Vermont get away. I also bought these apples because I could not walk by the couple selling them at the market without buying something. Luckily they were selling something I wanted. They were happy to tell me the difference between Jonagold and Liberty apples and offer me a taste of each so I could be sure I got what I wanted.
I used the recipe from King Arthur Flour because it is the recipe that wingandaprayerfarm used. I wanted my muffins to be just like hers. Except then I added walnuts to the recipe, and I did not put brown sugar on top - I used a sprinkle of sugar in the raw instead because I like the crunch it gives. I also added a bit of ground nutmeg. It is hard for me not to to doctor a recipe a little. I almost put raisins in but stopped myself.
The big chunks of apples are completely delicious. This is a perfect muffin. Not overly sweet and very moist. But the very, very, very, best thing about them is everytime I take a bite I think of the nice man who sold me the apples on Saturday telling me "a couple of them were picked on Thursday, but I picked most of them on Friday."
If you go back could you please ask him what apple type makes the best bubbly delicious apple pie?
Posted by: SMM | 10/07/2013 at 03:36 PM