Pumpkin Apple Streusel Muffins

Ingredients

• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice (I don’t know what this is, so I combined ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups peeled, cored and chopped apple

• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup white sugar
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 4 teaspoons butter

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 18 muffin cups.
2. In a large bowl, sift together 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour, 2 cups sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mix together eggs, pumpkin and oil. Add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture; stirring just to moisten. Fold in apples. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
3. In a small bowl, mix together 2 tablespoons flour, ¼ cup sugar and ½ teaspoon cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle topping evenly over muffin batter.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean.

PS, don’t mind my poor photography.

Apple Pie

• recipe for a pie crust, store bought pie crust, depends how much time you have.
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• cinnamon and nutmeg to taste
• Enough Granny Smith apples to fill a pie crust - I used about 4, but they were pretty big.

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  I was too lazy to make my own pie crust, even though I know they're easy. I used this:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Add water, white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg, and bring to a boil. I used about 1 tsp of nutmeg and maybe 1 tbsp of cinnamon... I didn't measure. Reduce temperature and let simmer.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work of crust. I clearly suck at taking pictures, but my sister and friend are coming over today to make one of these with crabapples, so will try to do a little better...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Put this thing on a cookie tray or something! There is some runoff once it starts to bake and heat up and you don't want that in your oven.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees. Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft. 

This will make you a hit with the new in-laws, trust me.