Directions

Preparation time: 10 minutes 

Cooking time: 15 minutes 

Food Safety Tips:

• Wash your hands with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds.   
• Clean all countertops and equipment used for food preparation.   
• Gently rinse all produce under cool running water. 
• Use separate equipment for handling raw food and cooked food. 
• Do not eat raw dough or batter as it may contain bacteria that could cause you to become sick. 

Preparation:

Note: Apple butter is simply apples cooked down past the applesauce state until they have a natural, concentrated sweetness, and means that additional sugar is not needed here to make these muffins sweet. 

• Preheat the oven to 350 °F and grease a mini muffin tin or line the tin with paper liners. 
• In a large bowl, whisk the apple butter, apple or orange juice and egg.  Stir in the grated apple. 
• In a separate bowl, stir the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, cinnamon, allspice, and salt.  Add this to the apple butter mixture and stir just until evenly blended.  Stir in the dried cranberries and scoop the batter into the prepared muffin tin. 
• Bake the mini muffins for 15-18 minutes or until a tester inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.  Cool the muffins in the tin for 20 minutes, then lift them out to cool completely. 

Note: The mini muffins will keep for up to 4 days in an airtight container, or can be frozen for up to 3 months.