Apple Pumpkin Struesel muffins

This is a really easy, quick recipe which takes very little time to whip up. In fact, you don't even need to take your mixer out! The original recipe came from Taste of Home's Fast Family Favorites, but I found it on the net and changed it a bit. The changes, one an accident the other a substitution, are explained below.

Ingredients

• 2-1/2c flour
• 2c sugar
• 1tbsp pumpkin pie spice*
• 1tsp baking soda
• 1/2tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 1c canned pumpkin**
• 1/2c vegetable oil
• 2c finely chopped, peeled apples

Streusel:

• 1/4c sugar
• 2tbsp flour
• 1/2tsp ground cinnamon
• 4tbsp cold butter or margarine

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large bowl combine the first five ingredients.
3. In a medium size bowl combine the eggs, pumpkin and oil; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
4. Fold in apples.
5. Fill paper lined muffin tins 2/3 full.
6. In a small bowl combine sugar, flour & cinnamon for struesel.
7. Cut in butter until crumbly.
8. Sprinkle over muffin batter.
9. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown.
10. Cool for 5 minutes before removing muffins from tins to wire racks.
11. Enjoy!
    

Notes
*I didn't have pumpkin pie spice on hand so, I used 1tsp ground cinnamon, 1/2tsp ground ginger & 1/4tsp ground cloves.

**Every now & then when I screw up a recipe it turns out to be a good thing. In this instance the original recipe called for 1c canned pumpkin but I used the entire can. It was a yummy mistake so go for it. Unless of course you know what the heck to do with the rest of an opened can of pumpkin!