Here’s a really simple apple cinnamon muffin that Ella Grace and I made yesterday.
Cooking with your little is a great way to introduce a lifelong happy healthy relationship with food. From the independence of shopping for ingredients to measuring, mixing, chopping, cleaning, littles learn to appreciate textures and flavors while doing their favorite thing in the world - spending time with mama!
This recipe is a little cheeky w the addition of an oat streusel mixed in, if you are serving to a very little one or want it a little healthier, you can leave out the streusel, add in a teaspoon of cinnamon to the batter and replace the sugar w a mashed ripe banana instead!
Enjoy! ❤️
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APPLE CINNAMON MUFFINS
Dry Ingredients
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Wet Ingredients
1/3 cup oil (I did half melted butter half oil)
1 Egg
1/2 cup milk
2 apples, chopped
1 tbsp chia seeds
1 tsp vanilla bean paste
Streusel
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/3 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1. Preheat oven to 400f/200c
2. In a large mixing bowl, stir together dry ingredients before adding in wet ingredients. Fold in chia seeds, vanilla bean paste, and apples.
3. In a separate mixing bowl, stir together dry streusel ingredients before cutting butter into it. Fold lightly into muffin batter but don’t mix through. Chunks are good!
4. Spoon into greased muffin pans and bake for 20-25 mins.
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Racheal Kwacz is a Child and Family Development Specialist, mama tribe advocate and writer. As creator of the ‘Racheal Method’, she combines her 20+ years experience working with children in the USA and in Asia with the foundations of ‘Respectful Parenting’. Her method has helped hundreds of parents, families, and teachers around the world raise kind, confident, compassionate, respectful little ones.
She now shares her knowledge at parenting workshops, private sessions and corporate engagements. She is a mom to a joyful, curious and fiercely independent toddler foodie who is her talking, walking, poster-child for the Racheal Method. To learn more, connect with her on her website or follow her on social media @rachealkwacz!
