Apple Butter Muffins

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2 c flour

3/4 c brown sugar

1 1/2 ts baking powder

1/4 ts baking soda

1/2 ts salt

1 ts cinnamon

1/2 ts ginger

3/4 c apple butter

1/2 c butter or margarine, melted

: and cooled 1/4 c skim milk

2 eggs, lightly beaten

3 TB honey

1 ts vanilla

1/2 c raisins (optional)

Preheat oven to 400 F. In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients (the first 7 ingredients) and make a well in the center. In smaller bowl, combine wet ingredients (the next 6 ingredients). Pour wet mixture into the "well" of the dry ingredients and stir just to combine (10-15 strokes). Fold in raisins with as few strokes as possible. Spoon batter into 12 muffin cups (if you don't use muffin liners, spray the pan with cooking spray). Bake 20-25 minutes, until cake tester comes out clean. Remove muffin tin to cooling rack and cool 5 mins. before removing muffins from tin. (Do *not* let muffins cool completely in the tin.) Recipe By : Jenni Miller From: Johnnye Tamaru