This recipe was my son’s all-time favourite lunch box baking for all of his high school years. Unfortunately for him, there is only a small window of opportunity when both apples and passionfruit are in season. But this is it! The first of the new season Granny Smith apples are just starting to become available here in northern NSW, and there are still a few weeks left in the summer passionfruit season.
This is the fourth in my “Muesli Bar Challenge” series. So far I have three from three, but last week’s Choc Chip Cookies are the one to beat! The challenge is a lunchbox baking recipe, that is fast and easy, healthy, ethical, and that my school age reviewers actually prefer to the junk food marketed as “muesli bars”.
The Recipe
Quantities are a bit difficult to specify for this recipe, because apples come in lots of sizes, and passionfruit are variably juicy. You are aiming for a muffin-type batter, which is not quite as thick as a standard cake batter, sort of between a pikelet and a cake batter, and not over-mixed. The apple needs to be diced fairly small or they tend to break up. The recipe is pretty forgiving though.
Into a bowl mix (in more or less this order):
- 1 large or 2 small peeled and finely diced green apples (about a cup of diced apple)
- Pulp from 5 passionfruit
- 2 good desertspoons of plain, low fat yoghurt
- 2 good desertspoons of butter, melted
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 good desertspoons of brown sugar
- 1 beaten egg
- Pinch cinnamon and a small pinch of cloves (careful – it’s easy to overdo it with cloves)
- Enough wholemeal SR flour to make a thickish pancake batter – about 2/3 of a cup full.
Mix just enough to combine, and spoon into greased muffin tins. A small circle of greaseproof paper in the bottom of each tin helps the muffins come out easily.
Bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes or so, until a skewer comes out clean.
Makes 7 medium muffins (unless Casey finds them as they come out of the oven).
YUMMYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well did I get a treat tasting these muffins on Sunday afternoon. I picked the passionfruit with my (best brother in the world) then my darling sister-in-law cooked up some fresh hot apple and passionfruit muffins. I was in heaven. Thank you guys for the love in that food and the best Sunday afternoon I’ve had in a long time. Trouble is I will be back soon for more. Felicity Sue
I liked how it was sweet all through. My friends asked for a bite. I loved how it had a nice little taste to it. There was a bit of a taste that tasted like passion fruit. Outside had a bit more of a yummier taste than inside.
It was pretty good. The outside had a different taste and texture to the inside. Sweet and tangy in the middle. Overall texture is what a muffin should be like.
3/5