Ingredients

• 488 g Tree Top Apple Sauce
• 226 g butter, softened
• 402 g sugar
• 100 g eggs
• 2.5 g vanilla
• 512 g all-purpose flour
• 3 g cinnamon
• 1.30 g allspice
• 1.30 g ground cloves
• 75 g pecans, chopped
• 9.20 g baking soda

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 F.  Grease muffin pan or use paper cups in the pan.

Beat butter at medium speed with electric mixer until creamy, approximately 5 minutes. Add sugar; beat well. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Set butter mixture aside.

In a medium bowl, sift flour and next 3 ingredients together; stir in pecans.

Combine apple sauce and baking soda, stirring until mixture is foamy; add to butter mixture alternately with flour mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition.

Spoon batter into prepared muffin pans; filling cups two-thirds full.

Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until muffins are golden. Remove from pans immediately.

Makes 2 dozen muffins.