Mini Muffin Honey Apple Cakes

I was looking for a dessert recipe in honor of Rosh Hashanah for social hour this week. I found an Apple Cake recipe, and I tweaked the recipe some to include honey.

Ingredients:

Cake:

• 2.5 tablespoons sugar
• 1.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 cups of finely diced apples (I used 2 largish apples )
     
• 180 grams all purpose flour (or a scant 1.5 cups flour)
• 1/2 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
• 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted (or other light vegetable oil)
• 1/4 cup applesauce
• 1/2 cup (100 grams) white sugar
• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 tablespoons of applesauce (or 1 ounce apple juice) 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs (I warmed mine to room temperature)

Glaze:

• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 3 tablespoons applesauce
• 1 tablespoon butter or margarine (
• 1/2 cup confectioners sugar

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. 
2. Mix 2.5 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon together. Stir into apple chunks, and let sit.
3. Grease one 24 count mini-muffin pan and one 30 count mini bundtlette pan (or two 24 count mini-muffin pans with cooking spray.
4. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
5. In another bowl, whisk together oil, applesauce, sugar, honey, vanilla, and eggs.
6. Mix wet ingredients into dry ones. Reserve 1/3 cup of apple chunks, stir in the rest into the batter.
7. Using one small cookie scoop per well, fill all the wells of the mini-bundtlette/mini-muffin pans. (You should be aiming for about 75% full, so the cake can rise a bit.)
8. Sprinkle the reserved apple pieces on the mini-muffins. 
9. Bake for 16 - 18 minutes until lightly brown on edges.
   (While mini muffins bake, make up glaze.)
10. In a microwave safe bowl, combine brown sugar, honey, applesauce, and butter. 
11. Heat at high for 1 minute, stir, and heat another minute (bring mixture to a boil.)
12. Continue to heat another 2 to 3 minutes, stirring every minute.
13. Let cool a couple of minutes. 
14. Whisk in confectioners sugar until smooth, and paint or spread over mini-muffins.

Carole's Notes:

We liked these!  They were light an sweet and apple-y! The applesauce in the glaze added an extra layer of apple flavor.

The mini muffin recipe is lightly adapted from https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/09/moms-apple-cake/ and the glaze recipe is adapted from https://whitehousefoods.com/old-fashioned-apple-sauce-cake-caramel-apple-glaze/