Low Carb Apple Coffee Cake Muffins (GF)

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This low carb apple coffee cake muffins recipe is right on time for apple season, holiday season, brunch season, and hosting season. They are good enough to be featured in my keto bakery this fall, and will be a sell-out.

NOTE: If you live in the Nashville area, my bakes are sold at the Nolensville Farmer’s Market on Saturdays and at Elroy’s Coffee Shop in Franklin. You can also order for pick-up.

Have these as breakfast, which are very filling and a great high protein way to start the day. Place these on your brunch table, or serve at your next book club with hot tea.

Apple Walnut Muffin

Unlike my low apple crumb cake where I slice the apples thinly, I dice the apples for the muffins, so every bite can have an apple.

The apples are then cooked in a full stick of butter with a monk fruit sweetener and cinnamon. The entire pan is then added to the batter, and there is not extra fat added. The melted butter with the apples serves as the fat.

Made with a mix of almond flour, coconut flour, butter, eggs, cinnamon and apples, the cake is fluffy, and full of apple pieces. Topped with a streusel topping of almond flour, butter, sweetener, and walnuts, it gives all the fall muffin feels.

Walnuts in Crumb Topping

I only used the walnuts for the top with a crumb topping very similar to what I use for my keto coffee cake. You can add walnuts inside the cake, but I didn’t do that as I just wanted the topping to have the texture. I mixed softened butter with almond flour and added chopped walnuts to make the topping

Variations: Use Pecans instead of Walnuts. Add a maple or vanilla glaze. Bake in small loaf pans, bringing the batter 3/4 of the way up.

Apple Walnut Muffin

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Low Carb Apple Coffee Cake

Crunchy Apple Coffee Cake with Crunchy Walnut Topping (Low Carb, Gluten Free)
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Course: Keto Muffins
Cuisine: American
Keyword: coffeecake muffin, keto muffins, lowcarb cake
Servings: 12 Servings

Ingredients

Muffin Batter

Ingredients for Apple Mixture

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 cup Swerve granulated
  • 2 apples peeled, diced
  • 2 tablespoon cinnamon

Coffeecake Cinnamon Topping

  • 1 cup almond flour
  • 1/3 cup sugar free sweetener see notes
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • 4 tablespoons melted butter
  • 3/4 cup chopped walnuts

Instructions

Cook Apples

  • Peel apples and dice.
    Diced apples
  • In a frying pan, melt butter with cinnamon, sweetener, vanilla. Add apples and toss in buttery mixture. Cook for about 5 minutes. Set Aside.
    apple walnut muffins process

Cinnamon Crumble Topping

  • Add almond flour, Swerve, cinnamon, chopped walnuts together in separate bowl.
  • Add butter and mix with hands to make crumble. Set Aside.

Make Batter

  • Preheat oven to 350 on bake mode.
  • Put first five dry ingredients in a bowl. Set aside,
  • Add eggs to mixing bowl you are using for cake. Beat until frothy, about five minutes.
  • Add half of the dry ingredients mixture to eggs while mixer is on medium.
  • Add the entire apple mixture (made above)with all the melted butter.
  • Add remaining dry mixture. Pour into muffin liners.
  • Top with crumble (below).
    Unbaked Low Carb Apple Crumb Cake
  • Bake in muffin tins 25-30 minutes. You might get as many as 14 depending on the size of your cups. The inside muffin tests done when the temperature is 207 F.

How to Freeze

  • Muffins freeze well. Wrap each individually in plastic wrap. Take out to defrost about an hour in advance.

Notes

I  used the Golden sweetener, which is a combination of erythritol and monk fruit. You can use granulated Swerve.

Nutrition

Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 28g | Fiber: 4g

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