Yummy Cranberry-Apple Recipe

                                   8 Tbs butter (I used unsweetened, organic applesauce)

2 eggs (fresh from Philbrick's Dude Ranch are the BEST)

3/4 C sugar (I used honey)

rind of 1 orange, grated

1 C orange juice (I didn't have any so I squeezed the juice out of the grated orange and added water to meet the measurement)

2 C flour (I used whole wheat)

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp allspice

1 tsp ginger

3-4 peeled and chopped apples

1 C cranberries, cut in half

Melt and cool butter.  Whisk eggs and add to butter.

Add sugar (honey), orange juice, and rind. 

Add flour, b powder, soda, spices, apples and cranberries.

Fill greases muffin pans.

Bake 350 degrees for 20-25 min.

Makes 2 dozen.

These freeze super well!!  I put 2 in a plastic baggie and threw them in the freezer.  Now Mark can grab two every morning for his snack at school.  If I don't put them in the freezer, other little men eat them all! :)

I think I'll go have one with some sleepy time tea.