Mini Applesauce muffins

Yesterday afternoon I made mini applesauce muffins. I have been meaning to do this for a little while and thought it was the perfect day to make them. They turned out fantastic, the only problem was that I ended up with over 48 muffins. I guess I didn't realize how many the recipe would make. I got the recipe from allrecipes.com. Check out that site if you haven't already! It has tons of great tasting recipes, it also has a search feature where you can look for certain ingredients! Awesome!

Here is the recipe and I will show my alterations:

INGREDIENTS

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon ground allspice ( I just used cinnamon for both)
  
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 cup butter or margarine, softened (I only used 1 stick since there was the applesauce)
  
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups applesauce
• 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup raisins (I left these out because I don't like them.)
  

DIRECTIONS

1. In a bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, allspice and baking soda; set aside. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, applesauce and vanilla; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in raisins. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove to a wire rack.

They were super yummy, everyone liked them and they were a hit at the play date this morning. If you make this and get a large batch like I did you can always freeze half the batch for another morning.

Where I have been

Alright, so you may have been wondering what the heck happened to me. Well it was an extremely busy and stressful weekend, and I'm still trying to play catch up!

Day 13: We had Adam's brother, Ben, and our friend Jackie over for dinner. I made a BBQ turkey pizza, and side salad. For dessert we had a pumpkin layered loaf that I made and then the Heet family nutroll! My father-in-law has taken up the tradition of making his mom's famous nutroll and boy does he do a good job. After dinner and the kids went to bed, we played Jenga and Uno. A good time was had by all!

Day 12: What a crazy day! We headed out to my mom's house 1 1/2 hours away for breakfast with Santa. Adam stayed at a coffeeshop to do work while we went to the breakfast. Long story short, he had my phone, I left my mom's house to go get him, the kids were sleeping in the backseat, got a flat tire, the spare was flat, I had to call mom's boyfriend to save me. My mom came to get the kids and I, while Jerry worked damn hard to get the tire off to find out that both the tire and the spare were trash. So they bought us 2 new tires! We headed over to a friends house that night to watch 2 horrible movies, and spent the night out there. Didn't do much just the 2 of us but we spent tons of time together!

Day 11: My brother-in-law Tom graduated with his Master's degree. We are all so very proud of him. It was a long day and we didn't get home until late. We were happy just to spend the night in our own bed!

Day 10: I had a Mom's Night In with the moms from my mom's group. So no real togetherness this night, but after the weekend we had I think that was alright!

Day 9: Brother-in-law Ben came over for dinner. After he left Adam and I made some applebutter again. Don't tell anyone, but that is what they are getting for Christmas from us. I am using recycled glass jars, and made a tag and everything so they look really nice. I will put another post up with all the pictures because I'm jsut too lazy to start all over again!