Blue Chair Bay Spiced Rum Apple Crumb Muffins
Equipment
- Tulip parchment muffin liners, muffin tin
Ingredients
Crumb Topping
- 10 Tbsp butter melted
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 ¾ cups whole wheat pastry flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 ¼ tsp apple pie spice or 1 tsp cinnamon ¼ tsp nutmeg
Apple Muffin Batter
- 2 Tbsp Blue Chair Bay Spiced Rum
- 1 apple diced into ¼” cubes
- 8 Tbsp butter softened
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 Tbsp apple pie spice or cinnamon
Blue Chair Bay Spiced Rum Glaze
- 2 Tbsp Blue Chair Bay Rum
- ½ cup powdered sugar
Instructions
Crumb Topping
- Mix all the ingredients together in a medium bowl until large crumbs form.
Apple Muffins
- In a small bowl, mix the diced apple and spiced rum.
- In a medium bowl, combine the all-purpose and pastry flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and apple pie spice.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add in the egg and mix until combined.
- On low speed add in half the buttermilk and half the dry ingredient mixture and mix until mostly combined.
- Add in the remaining buttermilk and dry mixture and mix just until combined.
- Fold in the Blue Chair Bay Spiced Rum and apples by hand.
- Portion into 12 paper lined muffin tins.
- Top with a generous amount of crumb mixture and press the crumbs into the batter a bit.
- Bake at 375F for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Allow to cool while you make the Blue Chair Bay Spiced Rum Glaze.
Blue Chair Bay Spiced Rum Glaze
- In a small bowl, stir the Blue Chair Bay Spiced Rum and powdered sugar to combine.
- Adjust consistency with additional Spiced Rum or powdered sugar as desired.
- Drizzle cooled muffins with the glaze.