Gluten Free Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Muffins

EEEEEKKKK! ;-)

This recipe was born because my oldest son Thijmen wanted to make scary cupcakes for Halloween. I'm a bit late posting this recipe, but sometimes there just doesn't seem to be enough time in a day, or a week. So, you can bookmark this recipe for next year. :-)
Since I've made a gazillion cupcakes of late, I decided to turn them into scary muffins. The basic recipe is of a Apple, Cinnamon Oatmeal cake I've found in a Jamie magazine that I figured would make great gluten free muffins if i canted the recipe somewhat. Yes, I'm a daredevil, boldly changing that into a muffin recipe. LOL
Apple, Cinnamon & Oatmeal make a great combination, so if you aren't into a scary breakfast of snack, you can very well do without the marzipan spiders we put on top.


Ingredients:

• 180 grams (6 oz) of butter at room temperature
• 140 grams (5 oz) of cane sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 100 grams (3.5 oz) of rice flour
• 80 grams (about 2.75 oz) of buckwheat flour
• 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar
• 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon of xanthan gum
• 1 large apple (do not use a very sour one, pick a sweet tasting apple)
• 2 tablespoons of oatmeal
• Icing sugar
• To make the spiders, use gluten free marzipan

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees centigrade (325 fahrenheit).
2. Line a muffin tin with butter or paper muffin cups. 
3. Take a large bowl and add the soft butter and sugar. Beat it into a creamy mixture. 
4. Whisk the eggs into the sugar and butter mixture and sift the flour, cream of tartar, cinnamon and xanthan gum and fold all this into the egg/butter/sugar batter in the bowl. 
5. Peel the apple, take out the centre and grate it. Fold it into the batter.
6. Now, if you want to decorate your muffins with marzipan, toss the oatmeal into the mixture now and fold it in. It will give the muffins an extra bite and extra fibers. If you don't feel like making scary spiders, keep the oatmeal aside to decorate the muffins with later. 
7. Now scoop the batter into the paper cups in the muffin tin. Grab your oatmeal if you kept that for decoration and sprinkle it on top.
8. Put the muffin tins in the oven and bake them for about 35-40 minutes. If they look golden, smell wonderful and if you poke a skewer in them and it comes out clean, they're done. 
9. Take them out of the oven and let them cool a bit before you transfer them to a wire rack to let them cool completely. Then decorate with the marzipan spiders (stick them onto the muffin with bit of basic icing) or just dust the oatmeal topped muffins with some icing sugar for extra prettiness.

Enjoy!