Apple Muffins with Maple Glaze is a copycat of the old Costco muffins. Moist, fluffy, apple and spice filled muffins topped with streusel and drizzled with a maple glaze. This tasty apple muffin recipe is perfect for your brunch table!
I have never been a muffin girl, unti lately. I do recall years ago my mom or teaches getting a large pack of muffins from Costco and one was apple with a maple glaze. I remember always begging for that muffin. It was delish.
Well it’s been a few years. And the other day the muffin just popped in my head. Baked goods seem to do that to me. Anyways I left work that day and stopped at Target to pick up some ingredients. Well un benounced to me the Target by my work has a 1/8 of a baking aisle and carries not fresh fruit. So no apples for the muffins I wanted. 🙁 I was annoyed. But later that night I happened to go to Trader Joes and got my apples 🙂 so muffins would be made the next day ! WOO HOO
And let me say these Apple Muffins with Maple Glaze deserve a WOO HOO! I seriously loved them! In fact I loved them so much I hoarded them in a bag inside my purse so no one else could get to them. Sad? Pathetic? I know, I have issues.
On a serious note, the spices, the chunks of apples, the oats in the batter, the moistness, the maple glaze- what is not to love? These Apple Muffins w/ Maple Glaze will defo be making many more appearances in my kitchen.
Please let me know if you make this Apple Muffins with a Maple Glaze Recipe!
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Apple Muffins with Maple Glaze is a copycat of the old Costco muffins. Moist, fluffy, apple and spice filled muffins topped with streusel and drizzled with a maple glaze. This tasty apple muffin recipe is perfect for your brunch table!
Ingredients
Muffins
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup quick oats
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp cloves
- 1/4 allspice
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2/3 milk
- 1/3 oil
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 large apple, cut into small chunks (mine came out to 1 1/2 cups)
Streusel Topping
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 8 tbsp butter, at room temp.
- 1/4 cup oats
- Pinch cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves
Maple Glaze
- 1 heaping cup powdered sugar, sifted
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp maple extract
- 1 tbsp hot water
Instructions
Muffins
- Preheat oven to 375F and heavily grease a muffin pan.
- In a medium bowl mix together flour, quick oats, sugars, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl mix together eggs, sour cream, milk, oil, and vanilla. Slowly mix in dry ingredients, just until no flour streaks remain. Fold in apple chunks.
Streusel Topping
- To make streusel topping in a medium bowl mix flour, brown sugar, butter, oats, a pinch of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
- Fill muffin pans all the way to the top with batter. Sprinkle streusel on top. Bake for 18-20 minutes. Until a toothpick inserted in comes out clean. Place on wire rack to cool.
Maple Glaze
- In a small bowl mix together powdered sugar, maple syrup, maple extract and hot water. If too thin add a tsp of water at a time to reach desired consistency. Drizzle on top of muffins.
Keywords: costco muffin recipe, maple apple recipe
This must be the Target version of the recipe. I don’t see any apples listed.
That would be me writing the recipe at 2am and forgetting about the apples all together! LOL Sorry for the mistake and thanks for letting me know 🙂
Thanks! I can’t wait to make them. Sounds Delish!
I hope you do Ron. My family and friends LOVED them.
I love muffins and these look like some totally awesome muffins! I’m a little leery of the new grocery department in my Target – things aren’t looking so fresh there either. I also remember those Costco muffins, but I don’t eat them anymore because the ingredient list is a mile long and they don’t taste nearly as good as homemade.
Yes homemade= way better! 🙂
I love muffins – especially for breakfast! These look so warm and comforting. Bookmarking for the Fall!
Thanks Ashley 🙂
You sound like a Costco girl like me…love all their goodies in the baking area! These apple chunks rock in this muffin!
Btw, your nail polish color is very pretty!
I love it when you get all muffin girlie on me.
Oh shoot girl! ME too!!
I could drink that maple glaze! SO good.
Oh, nothing beats a nice warm glazed muffin!
True that!
Omg! These look SO good! Moist and that Maple Glaze makes me want to lick it all off. haha
My son will love these! Great recipe!
That maple glaze looks totally amazing. I’d want to put it on everything! 🙂
A long time ago I made these but forgot to write down the recipe that I had come up with. With your recipe I would double the strussel and pack the bottom of each muffin with 2 T. Of it so you get that crunchy bottom too. These are my favorite muffins. Today my granddaughter and I made blueberry ones. I get to eat a couple before I send them home with her, because first my husband is not a muffin eater…. Ok back… I’m old not dead! And doesn’t like blueberries. Though he will eat 1-2 slices of a quick bread… Dah… Same thing! So I need send this recipe to my computer so I can print it off. Thanks so much for making it available to print! Cindy from Alaska 12/31/15
Thank you for this recipe, I just made them following the recipe exactly and they came out beautifully! They were a little taller than the muffins pictured, and the maple glaze was perfect. So delicious. I love the maple Costco muffins but don’t live anywhere near a Costco so this recipe will perfectly suffice. Good work!
My family all liked these muffins, though the streusel could use a little more spice. My husband doesn’t like oat in muffins, so I ground that ingredient to a flour consistency. I plan to make these again!
★★★★
Thank you for coming back and leaving a review, Kim. I appreciate it so much!! I too sometimes grind the oats down, it really creates such a fabulous texture!