Shelly's Recipe

MISSISSIPPI SPICE AND PECAN MUFFINS

Category: Muffins

1 cup soft butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 cups applesauce, unsweetened
3 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp ground all spice
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
4 cups flour
11/2 cups pecans, chopped
Sliced almonds
Vanilla cake frosting
Foil baking cups

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Mix in applesauce and spices. Sift together salt, baking soda and flour. Add to applesauce mixture and mix well. Stir in nuts. Bake in muffin pans using foil baking cups at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, or until your toothpick is clean.

Let muffins cool and take out of baking cups. Place sliced almonds on the plate. Coat tops of muffins with vanilla frosting and turn muffins upside down and dip into sliced almonds. Batter keeps indefinitely in refrigerator. Baked muffins freeze well. Reheat before serving. Serves: Makes three or four dozen muffins.