Baking for IT People is easy

So I often bake for work... because if anyone truly appreciates baked goods... it's IT people who live on a consistent diet of coffee and Dunkin Donuts... I'd been trying to make these muffins for a few weeks because we had apples from our tree but just hadn't gotten to them. We were making apple sauce - from apples from Michigan - because that's how I roll - and decided to take one more step and make the muffins for work. I texted my boss about it... mostly because he claims I only bring baked goods when he's traveling. Which isn't necessarily true... I mean he does travel a LOT... I can't help that my itchy to bake and his travel schedule aren't really synced. I texted asking if he would be in the office or if he'd be giving me sass... he'd be there! Yay! Meanwhile he was at a rock concert - I was at home being a homesteader - canning applesauce and baking muffins at 8 PM on a Sunday night... Anyway. These muffins came together quickly. Yay for Andy's quick thinking putting the cold butter near the hot canning jars so it could soften for me. Use all that heat! These muffins were a huge hit. Someone said they tasted like pumpkin. Um.... No? All those warm fall spices get a weird rap with pumpkin when they are rightfully paired with apples. The original recipe called for maple icing - nope... vanilla works for me. An easy recipe and oh so delicious.

Old Fashioned Apple Muffins

Muffins
2 ⅔ cups (333 g) all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons apple pie spice
¾ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ cup (½ stick / 57 g) unsalted butter, room temperature
⅓ cup (73 g) vegetable oil
½ cup (100 g) granulated sugar
⅓ cup (67 g) light brown sugar, packed
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup (245 g) buttermilk, room temperature
Apples
4 medium Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, finely diced
4 teaspoons granulated sugar
4 teaspoons apple pie spice
Glaze
2 tsp vanilla
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
½ cup (62.5 g) confectioners' sugar

Preheat oven to 425°F and line a muffin pan with liners.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, apple pie spice, and salt.
In a large bowl, mix together the butter, oil, and sugars until smooth.
Add eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk.
To the wet ingredients, add the flour mixture. Mix until just combined. Set aside.
Apples
In a small bowl, mix together apples, granulated sugar, and apple pie spice.
Gently fold apples into muffin batter.
Divide the batter evenly between the 12 muffin cups. (They should be filled to the top of the muffin liner!) Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out with a few crumbs, but no wet batter. As the muffins are baking, make the glaze.
Glaze
Melt butter, stir in confectioners' sugar and vanilla
Drizzle the glaze over the warm muffins.