Apple and Cardamon Muffins

Ingredients:

2 Eating Apples, peeled and cored

130g Buckwheat flour

75g Caster sugar

1 tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda

Pinch of Salt

1 Egg

60g Unsalted butter, melted

100ml Milk

1 tsp Vanilla extract

1/2 tsp Green cardamom pods, roughly crushed

For Top:

1 tbsp Jumbo GF oats

2 tbsp Demerara sugar

Method:

1. Heat over to 220C (200C Fan).

2. Coarsely grate one of the apples, and chop the other into 1 cm cubes

3. Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a bowl. In another bowl, whisk the egg, melted butter, milk, vanilla extract and cardamom, then stir in the grated apple.

4. Pour the wet mixture into the dry, then fold gently.

5. Spoon the batter evenly into 6 muffin cups, and top each one with cubes of apple, pushing them into the batter a little. Add a sprinkling of oats and demerara sugar.

6. Bake for 8 mins, then reduce to 180C (160C) and bake for a further 8-10 mins.

7. Leave to cool completely before turning out and serving.