When the weather starts changing and getting cooler, everyone starts asking for fall-themed recipes. These apple cinnamon muffins are a result of multiple tests to create a muffin with flavor and lower calories. As I continue on my journey to use WW for losing weight, and a plant-based diet for other health and moral reasons, it is harder than ever. This recipe is accidentally vegan and seriously amazing!
Apple Cinnamon Muffins
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I prefer using from-scratch recipes, but they just fell flat every time. This is an upgrade to a cake mix, and that was shockingly naturally vegan. So, for those who are looking for something to fit into a plant-based or vegan diet plan, this will work. I do typically use the Pillsbury Sugar-Free Cake Mixes since they are lower in points. If you use a traditional cake mix, this recipe will be higher in points. If you are looking for a vegan recipe, then always double-check the cake mix to make sure it does not contain any dairy or eggs. Most do not.
Ingredients
1 Sugar-Free Cake Mix (white or yellow)
1 ½ cups Granny Smith apples, chopped (approximately 3 small apples in ¼" dices)
½ cup unsweetened applesauce
1 small ripe banana
½ cup water
½ cup apple juice
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
How to Make Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Spray with nonstick spray or line full-sized muffin tins.
In a large bowl, mash the banana and mix well with applesauce.
Mix together dry cake mix and cinnamon in a large bowl.
Pour mashed banana and applesauce mixture as well as water over dry mixture and lightly mix, but don't completely blend.
Add in apples, and mix well.
Pour approximately ¼ cup mixture into each muffin tin. This should make enough for 18 muffins.
Bake at 375 degrees for 18 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through.
These will be moist, but should not be liquid in the center.
How Many Ponts Per Muffin?
You can find the recipe on the WW app or on the website HERE to verify your own unique PersonalPoints.
- PersonalPoints: 2-4
- BLUE: 2
- GREEN: 2
- PURPLE: 2
- SmartPoints: 4
- Points Plus: 2
I use traditional muffin tins and spray them with non-stick spray. However, silicone muffin cups or silicone muffin tins may be a better method for some. Choose whatever method you prefer. These muffins are not large, but they are average-sized and very filling since they have tons of fiber with the apples chopped inside.
Apple Cinnamon Muffins make a great breakfast alongside some fresh fruit. They are also an excellent flavorful dessert that even my picky 10-year-old loved!
More Weight Watchers Muffins
3-Ingredient Blueberry Muffin Recipe
Weight Watchers Banana Coconut Muffins
Healthy Pumpkin Cupcake/Muffin Recipe
Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Use a sugar-free cake mix base to make these tasty apple cinnamon muffins! A perfect breakfast or snack on the WW programs!
Ingredients
- 1 Sugar-Free Cake Mix (white or yellow)
- 1 ½ cups Granny Smith apples, chopped (approximately 3 small apples in ¼" dices)
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 small ripe banana
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup apple juice
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Spray with nonstick spray or line full sized muffin tins.
- In a large bowl, mash banana and mix well with applesauce.
- Mix together dry cake mix and cinnamon in large bowl.
- Pour mashed banana and applesauce mixture as well as water over dry mixture and lightly mix, but don't completely blend.
- Add in apples, and mix well.
- Pour approximately ¼ cup mixture into each muffin tin. This should make enough for 18 muffins.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 18 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through.
- These will be moist, but should not be liquid in the center.
Notes
- PersonalPoints: 2-4
- BLUE: 2
- GREEN: 2
- PURPLE: 2
- SmartPoints: 4
- Points Plus: 2
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Beth
I just made these and they are so delicious! I had to stop myself at two!
SANDRA HAWN
where do you buy sugar free cake mix?
Katie
It is available at most Walmart stores, but I have also found on Amazon, seen at Kroger and Publix, as well as Target 🙂
Joan Dahlen
I just found your blog and I love it. I downloaded the WW recipes because I am trying to keep every meal in the 0-3 pt. range and your recipes fit that. I did want to mention that most cake mixes are really highly processed and full of chemicals. Organic mixes usually have few ingredients and sound much healthier, so maybe you could mention this to your viewers. Thanks for helping with WW recipes. I hope you will continue to post them! Happy Valentines Day!
Lindy
How many calories are these muffins?
Katie
It depends on the cake mix used and how many apples you add. You can figure the amount using My Fitness Pal if you prefer 🙂
Tracy Zittrower
I don't think this recipe is vegan using the Pillsbury Sugar Free Cake Mix which contains Milk products. This is what it says on the box: Contains milk and wheat...May contain soybeans Also, wouldn't these be 2 points? I thought the Freestyle program uses the SmartPoints. From Weight Watchers website: On WW Freestyle™, you’ll get a personalized SmartPoints® Budget.
Katie
In regards to the cake mix being vegan, it depends on the brand. Pillsbury does contain milk products in some of their cake mixes, but not all sugar-free cake mixes do. The same applies to the points value on this recipe, if you calculate using the information on the Pillsbury Moist Supreme Cake Mix, Premium, Sugar Free, Classic Yellow (serves 12), it is a total of 47 points for the entire mix, you also must count the points in the apple juice (6SP for amount used in the recipe) When you divide that by 18 servings, within the app, it shows each muffin as 3 SmartPoints on FreeStyle, Beyond the Scale, or Flex plans.
Tracy Zittrower
Regarding my comment on the SmartPoints...I see that you say its 2 PointsPlus per muffin. However, I must not understand how the 3 points were calculated. The only points are from the cake mix. The serving size on the box is 1/10 with 10 servings in the box...this gives you 4 points per serving. If the cake mix makes 18 muffins...that's almost double the serving size on the box, therefore the muffin serving size is 2 muffins (roughly). That would make it 4 points per 2 muffins or 2 points per muffin. Please explain if I'm wrong.
Katie
As responded to your other comment, the amount on the box differs depending on brand used. When this recipe was created, I used the Pillsbury Moist Supreme Cake Mix, Premium, Sugar Free, Classic Yellow (serves 12) in the recipe builder. The number of servings on the box is not the number of servings you end up having after you make the muffins. This is because of the added apples in the recipe creating more bulk, so the recipe makes more muffins. I count each muffin as a serving, so again, the point per serving of 1 whole muffin is 3 SmartPoints on the FreeStyle plan. If you are using a different type of cake mix, you would need to input the information into the recipe builder on your own, and list the number of muffins you get when you are done to determine the points per muffin.
Patrice DeCristoforo
Could you list all nutrition facts.
Kylie skinner
Hi! I just made these and followed the exact recipe, exact cake mix and everything. How would I track this in the WW app? Do I need to put each ingredient individually or do you have this already made up?
Katie
You can add as a quick add in the app for just the points 🙂
Lawren
When I put this into the app, it shows up that they are 0 points. Am I doing something wrong?
Katrina
How long can these be stored? keep refrigerated?
Katie Hale
They are best stored in the refrigerator and good for up to 5 days