Apple Muffins

Got this recipe from All Recipes.  It had over 500 reviews and over 4 1/2 stars.  Can't wait to make this for Samhain breakfast.  It will make a fun cooking project for the family.

INGREDIENTS :

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups chopped apples (1 cup shredded and 1/2 cup chopped or if you like chunks in your muffins switch this)
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon butter

*optional- 1 cup cinnamon chips
alter butter to 1/4 cup butter and 1/4 cup applesauce

*Note... batter will be thick, almost like cookie dough.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 12 cup muffin pan.
2. In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
3. In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugars and eggs until smooth. Mix in vanilla. Stir in apples, and gradually blend in the flour mixture.
4. Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin pan.
5. In a small bowl, mix brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture is like coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over tops of mixture in muffin pan.
6. Bake 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Allow to sit 5 minutes before removing muffins from pan. Cool on a wire rack.