Cranberry Apple Muffins
Cranberry Apple Muffins are a wonderful way to incorporate yummy ingredients of the season into your Thanksgiving Dinner! If you love a muffin with a lot of warm spices and chunky ingredients this recipe is for you! Enjoy any time of the year but during the holidays they are another way to add cranberries to the menu. Consider them for a buffet, breakfast, or a compliment to a stew or soup! The aroma is unbelievable while they are baking – then add a bit of butter and they are heavenly. And if cranberries are not your thing… then consider what you might substitute!
Easy Cranberry Apple Muffins
This recipe is a basic Muffin recipe with the addition of cranberries, apples, and carrots. It is easy to make taking less than an hour with baking time. My preference is to use fresh ingredients over dried ingredients. But you could try using dried cranberries to see how they work over fresh cranberries. As a disclaimer, I have not tried dried cranberries since I use the left over fresh cranberries. It is a substantial Cranberry Apple Muffin with so many ingredients.
A consideration is to make Cranberry Apple Mini-Muffins that might be better for a dinner party. Taste of Home recommends not changing the oven temperature when making mini-muffins but the baking time typically decrease. Mini-muffins may take 10 to 15 minutes depending upon the oven temperature. When converting from full size muffins to mini-muffins, I use my experience with how my oven bakes to determine a baking time. I start with a conservative time with checking for doneness.

Recipe adapted from Taste of Home.
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Cranberry Apple Muffins
Pin RecipeEquipment
- Cutting board and knife
- Vegetable peeler
- Large mixing bowl
- Medium bowl
- Cookie cooling rack
- 12 Muffin tin with paper cup liners
Ingredients
Apple & Sugar Mixture
- 2 cups Apples peeled and chopped
- 1-1/3 cups Coconut Sugar
Vegetables & Nuts
- 1 cup Cranberries roughly chopped
- 1 cup Carrots shredded
- 1 cup Nuts chopped (walnuts or pecans)
- 2 Eggs organic
- 1/2 cup Canola Oil
Dry Ingredients
- 2-1/2 cups Flour sifted
- 1 tbsp Baking Powder
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Salt
Spices
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp Ginger
- ¼ tsp Cloves
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine apples and sugar; let stand for 10 minutes.
- Add the Vegetable and Nut ingredients; mix well.
- In a medium bowl, sift the Dry ingredients. Add Spice ingredients.
- Stir dry ingredients into apple mixture just until moistened.
- Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full.
- Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
They look absolutely lucious!!! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! They are a wonderful muffin with some substance. And a joy to serve and eat! 🙂
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Thank you! They are a fabulous muffin with so many opportunities from changing out ingredients to how they are served! Your avocado cake looks awesome! 🙂
Thanks!
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I’m both for cranberries and apples, so these would definitely work for me! 🙂
They are just wonderful! I could imagine a little apple butter on them! So many opportunities on how they can be enjoyed.
Can’t wait to try these. They sound delicious. Thanks for sharing the recipe. 🙂
They are fantastic! The aroma when baking is heavenly! I hope you enjoy them. Thank you for visiting Cooking Plate! 💕 💕 💕
Lovely recipe. I make an apple and carrot cake, and cranberries seem like the perfect addition.
Thank you! I love these recipes because you can make small changes and you have a new bread. 💕💕💕
I love muffins! They are perfect and easy to share! 🙂
So true!! 💕 They are wonderful!
I love the combination of apples and cranberries! These would be perfect for Sunday brunch! Do you use dried cranberries or fresh?
I used fresh cranberries but I would imagine dried would also work. It is a great combination making them a fun muffin! They were gone fairly quickly! 🙂
This I can make and not feel guilty, looks so nutritious as well as yummy.
It really is delicious! I do hope you enjoy the muffins! 💕 💕 💕
The muffins look yummy. I never would have thought of using both carrots and cranberries in the same recipe.
It is a wonderful combination! We really enjoyed them and they did not last long! 🙂
What a wonderful recipe! Thank you for sharing, Bernice! I love using fresh cranberries but have never paired them with apples or carrots before – look forward to try this out! 😊
Thank you for stopping by and commenting. I love the blend of them – especially since we don’t think of them naturally going together. The fun of cooking and exploring. 🙂 I hope you enjoy the muffins if you try them!
Now I know my son would LOVE these 🙂
Thank you for your kind comment! They really are delicious! If you make them, let me know his reaction. Thank you for stopping by!
Love this combination!
It is delicious! So fun for the holidays. I made them for Thanksgiving.
Delicious! 😋 Can I have some? 🤪
Yes! I will send some over! 😉
YUM!!!!!
Thank you! We definitely enjoyed them. 🙂
I bet. AND you can say they are healthy too. 🙂
Always a benefit. 💕
It’s definitely a perk! 🙂
They look so delicious! <3
Thanks so much!! 💕 We definitely enjoyed them.
I can feel the smell of these wonderful muffins!
They are perfect for this time of year. And have a wonderful aroma when baking. 💕