Baystate Breakfast Muffins

• 2 cups shredded Granny Smith apples
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 1 (14 ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce
• 1 cup shredded carrot
• 1 cup chopped pecans or 1 cup walnuts
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Mix: shredded apples & sugar.
3. Add to apple mix: cranberry sauce, shredded carrots & nuts. (set aside).
4. In a separate bowl, mix all dry ingredients.
5. Add to dry mix: beaten eggs and applesauce.
6. Gently stir ingredients from both bowls together.
7. Spray muffin tins with no-stick spray.
8. Fill tins completely.
9. Bake 25-30 minutes Check after 20 minutes (because all ovens are different). If toothpick inserted to the middle of the muffin comes out clean, muffins are done.
10. Remove from oven & let them set 5 minutes before removing from tins.
11. Enjoy! Delicious alone or with butter or cream cheese.

apples, sugar, cranberry sauce, carrot, pecans, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice, eggs, unsweetened applesauce

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/baystate-breakfast-muffins-516149 (may not work)