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Apple Crumb Muffins Everyone Will Love

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My youngest always loves to “make something”.  Most days we spend at least a bit of time in the kitchen cooking something he can help with.

Cooking with kids is fun and helps them in so many ways…but you have to be safe of course too.  That said, there’s tons even the little ones can do in the kitchen to have a great time while learning about food, nutrition and more!

Many of our go to recipes when we’re cooking together are baked goods because they usually don’t require the stove all that much.  And, also, because he loves muffins!

This recipe for apple crumb muffins is one of our favorites.  Everyone in the family actually likes them and they’re fairly healthy.  Some may want to reduce the sugar, and you could replace the butter with olive oil or all applesauce.  We also like to increase the apples a bit here too!

Hope you enjoy this muffin recipe as much as we do and, if there’s a little one in your life, consider sharing the cooking duties with him or her and enjoy the fun!

Apple Crumb Muffins
Recipe Type: quick bread
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 16
Ingredients
  • 2 C flour
  • 1t baking powder
  • 1/2t baking soda
  • 1/2t salt
  • 1/4 C butter
  • 1/4 C applesauce
  • 1C sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/4t vanilla
  • 2 C apple chopped
  • FOR CRUMB TOPPING
  • 1/3 C brown sugar
  • 1T flour
  • 1/2 t cinnamon
  • 2T butter
  • 2T oats
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375F and prepare muffin pans.
  2. In a medium bowl mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  3. In a large bowl beat together butter, applesauce, sugar, and eggs until smooth.
  4. Add vanilla and apples
  5. Gradually mix in the dry ingredients.
  6. Add mixture to prepared pans by filling each muffin cup to approx 1/2 full.
  7. In a separate bowl mix sugar, flour and cinnamon.
  8. Cut in butter until you get a mixture that looks like coarse crumbs.
  9. Sprinkle crumbs over the tops of the muffins.
  10. Bake 15 – 18 min or until set.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe For Soft and Chewy Homemade Cookies

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Everyone has a favorite type of chocolate chip cookie.  If yours is soft and chewy – like the kind you find in a bakery – this recipe is for you!

We’ve tried a lot of different chocolate chip cookie recipes here and this is one of our favorites.  There’s only one problem; it’s hard to keep the cookie jar full for more than a day or so when these are in there because everyone just loves them.

Check them out for yourself today and let us know what you think.  And, if you have another favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, share it with all of us so we can go have a taste test!

BIG, Soft, and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Recipe Type: Dessert
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 45 mins
Serves: 16
Ingredients
  • 3/4 C butter melted
  • 1 C brown sugar
  • 1/2 C white sugar
  • 1 T vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 C flour
  • 1/2 t baking soda
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 2 C semi sweet chocolate chips
  • Unbleached parchment paper for cookie sheets
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 325 F (165 C)
  2. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper
  3. Melt butter
  4. Cream melted butter, sugar, brown sugar together in a large bowl
  5. Add vanilla, egg, and egg yolk
  6. Sift flour, baking soda, and salt together
  7. Add flour mixture to the rest of the ingredients and mix until well blended
  8. Add chocolate chips
  9. Drop dough by 1/4 C onto the prepared cookie sheets about 2-3 in apart
  10. Bake 12-15 min – the softer you like your cookies the less you should bake them.
  11. Let set on the cookie sheet a few minutes, then move to a wire rack to cool

 

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Easy Recipe for Quick, Organic Garlic Carrots

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Carrots are readily available most places and nearly any time of year.  If you have the space, carrots are quite easy to store through the winter.  If you can’t store them, they’re also a cold season crop and can even be started early in the spring and last throughout the fall outside in the garden.  In fact, if you have the right set up (or are blessed w/a mild climate!) carrots can be grown year round outside!

Organic carrots are also packed with nutrients that benefits your entire body including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Potassium and, they’re a great source of fiber too.

Whether you’re enjoying fresh from your garden carrots or are using organic ones you brought home from the store, this recipe helps  make them extra tasty and  even more nutritious too by adding garlic; also known for its many beneficial properties.

This recipe isn’t only nutritious though, its really tasty; even some of our pickiest eaters love it.  Our organic garlic carrot recipe is quick to make too, and if there’s one thing that’s helpful when we’re trying to nourish our hungry families its recipes that don’t take forever to prepare.

Enjoy these organic garlic carrots along side any main dish or as a quick snack, or however else you choose!  They’re packed full of nutrition and so delicious you’ll find yourself making them again, and again….and again.

Organic Garlic Carrots
Recipe Type: Side Dish
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 15 mins
Total time: 25 mins
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • 1 pound carrots cut into about 2in pieces
  • 2-4 garlic cloves depending on preferences
  • 2 T olive oil
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/3 t dried thyme
  • salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Saute carrots and garlic in oil for 5 min over med heat. Add water, salt, thyme and pepper. Bring everything to a boil then reduce heat to low/med and cook for about 10-12 min. Carrots should be tender yet not mushy when done.