Bonfire Night Toffee Apple Muffins

Ingredients - serves 12

250g cooking apples

150ml vegetable oil

175g dark brown sugar

175ml whole milk

250g self raising flour

2 large free range eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

Frosting

150g butter

500g icing sugar

100ml toffee sauce

Toffee chunks

Toffee sauce-to decorate

Method 

To make these amazing toffee apple muffins, preheat your oven to gas mark 4 and line a12 hole muffin tins with tulip paper cases. Add the oil, milk, eggs and vanilla extract together to a large mixing bowl and whisk until they are all combined. Set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, place the flour and sugar and mix until fully combined. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and whisk until the mixture is smooth and  fully combined. Peel, core and chop the apples into 1cm chunks. Add these to the muffin mixture and mix until the apples are evenly distributed. Divide the mixture evenly between the cases. Bake for 25-30 minutes until well risen and cooked all the way through. Once cooked, leave to cool for 15 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.

In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter until creamy, then sift in the icing sugar in additions and mix well. Stir through the 75ml toffee sauce and transfer to a piping bag fitted with a swirl nozzle. Pipe big swirls of icing on top of the cooled muffins and then drizzle over some toffee sauce to each one. Top each muffin with some toffee chunks and then serve for a delicious bonfire night treat.