Recipe - Mississippi Spice N Pecan Muffins

1 cup Butter or margarine;
softened
1 teaspoon Ground cloves
2 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
2 Eggs
2 teaspoon Baking soda
2 cup Unsweetened applesauce
4 cup Allpurpose flour
3 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
1 One half cup Chopped pecans
2 teaspoon Ground allspice
Sliced almonds
Vanilla cake frosting
Foil baking cups

Preheat oven to 350° F. Line muffin pans with foil baking cups.

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time. Mix in applesauce and
spices. Sift together salt, soda and flour. Add to applesauce mixture and
mix well. Stir in nuts.

Bake in muffin pans using foil baking cups at 350° for 25 minutes
(toothpick is clean). Let muffins cool and take out of baking cups. Place
cut or sliced up almonds on plate. Coat tops of muffins with vanilla frosting and
turn muffins upside down and dip into cut or sliced up almonds.

(Batter keeps indefinitely in refrigerator. Baked muffins freeze well.
Yields 34 dozen muffins.

Recipe by: Bridgeford House B & B, Eureka Springs, AR

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 566 by Crane Walden
cranew@foothill.net on Jan 20, 1998