Apple Muffins

INGREDIENTS: (Muffins)
3 cups apples- peeled and diced small
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg

STEPS:
In a large bowl mix diced apples, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg together.

In a separate bowl blend sugar, brown sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla extract together. You may use either a whisk or hand mixer. Add wet ingredients to dry and mix until combined.

Divide batter evenly among 12 muffin cups that have been either sprayed with non stick cooking spray or lined with muffin cup liners.

Sprinkle prepared streusel topping (recipe follows) evenly over muffin batter.

Bake in a preheated 350° oven for 30-40 minutes, rotating pan half way through cooking process. Allow muffins to cool in the pan and then remove to a wire rack.

INGREDIENTS: ( Streusel Topping)
¾ cup all purpose flour
½ tsp. cinnamon
¾ stick unsalted butter, melted
¼ tsp. salt
¾ cup light brown sugar

STEPS:
Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl, using your fingertips to combine.  Set aside until ready for use.

Autry Greer & Sons 
2850 West Main Street 
Prichard, AL 36612 
www.greers.com  for locations and hours 

About the Business: 
Greer's has been in business for 95 years and currently has 29 locations across Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.  We are your local grocery store.  We offer top quality Black Angus beef, all natural pork and chicken.  We have a butcher in every store where meat is cut and ground fresh 7 days a week.  We offer a pick 5 program that is a great value to our customers, as well as an extensive dollar aisle, and two great private label brands- Best Choice and Always Save.  We offer competitive pricing and outstanding customer service.  At Greer's you are treated like family, we guarantee it! 

Special Event Information:
The community is encouraged to shop at Greer’s Market, Food Tiger and Cash Saver stores to help students.  The Apple for Students program turns register tape receipts from those grocery stores into FREE equipment for participating area schools. On March 9, 2013, it’s DOUBLE CREDIT DAY.  Organizers say, over the past three years, Greer’s has provided $120,000 dollars in FREE educational equipment and supplies for the area.

About the Guest: 
Lucy Greer is part of the 5th generation at Greer's.  She supervises all 13 delis as well as heads our catering branch, Greer's Catering as our corporate chef.  She attended Auburn University where she received her business degree.  She then attended culinary school at Culinard in Birmingham, AL.

Sponsored by Autry Greer and Sons