Apple Muffins With Pecan Topping

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 350 g plain flour
• 25 g butter
• 50 g dark muscovado sugar
• 50 g pecans, chopped
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 284 ml sour cream
• 1 egg, beaten
• 3 apples
• 2 -3 tablespoons milk

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 200c/gas 6. line a muffin tin with cases. in a small bowl, use your fingers to rub 50gs of the flour together with the butter to make fine crumbs.stir through 1 tbsp sugar & the chopped pecans, then set aside.
• 2 in a large bowl, sift together the remaining flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda & a pinch of salt, then stir in the sugar & cinanamon & set aside. coarsely grate 2 of the apples, then beat together with the soured cream egg & 2 tbsp milk. make a well in the dried ingredients & quickly fold through the wet ingredients, adding a extra tbsp of milk if really dry. dont over mix or your muffins will be tough.it doesnt matter if there are lumps of flour.
• 3 spoon the mixture into the muffin cases- they should be about two-thirds full -then sprinle over the pecan topping. thinly slice the final apple, the poke slices into the tops of the muffins. bake for 20 mins or until risen, golden & a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.