Jennifer Garner making cinnamon apple muffins is the healthy content your day needs

Jennifer Garner making cinnamon apple muffins is the healthy content your day needs

Jennifer Garner is back with her adorable #PretendCookingShow, and this time she's serving up a cinnamon apple pie and turning it into a tray of muffins that make for the perfect breakfast or snack.

In her fan-favorite Instagram series, Garner has tackled both TikTok food trends and culinary classics, documenting every mishap along the way. As in, she almost accidentally set her kitchen on fire at one point.

In a new Instagram video, Garner lends her own cinnamon sugar apple pie recipe to Lindsay Ostrom (aka Pinch of Yum). The mother of three picks fresh apples from her garden (casually!), which she chops up for the recipe. She then makes her dough by combining the remaining ingredients, including brown sugar, oil, an egg, buttermilk, vanilla extract, baking powder, and flour, making sure to combine them in the exact order listed.

Garner fights off a hiccup attack mid-batter, after which an off-camera voice suggests she close her eyes and "draw a pig." She does and jokes, “I feel like I could maybe draw a pig, I learned that there.” After the short break, she continues by folding in her apples, adding some salt and cinnamon to her batter before scooping it into her greased muffin tin. After taste-testing her dough—not once, but twice—she adds a cinnamon-sugar topping to each muffin and pops the tray into her oven.

The end result: perfectly fluffy, moist-looking muffins that might have you subtly licking your screen. Of course, Garner treats herself to a muffin along with a cold-pressed fruit snack from Once Upon a Farm, her family's children's food brand. "You're telling me this isn't a perfect little meal," she quips in the video.

It's easy to guess why Garner chose an apple-cinnamon-flavored baked good for her latest cooking video. The combination tastes fantastic in smoothies, cookies or on its own and also offers some nutritional benefits. Research links the nutrients found in apples to a reduced risk of some cancers, cardiovascular disease, asthma and diabetes. Cinnamon is packed with health benefits; It can help lower blood sugar, increase anti-inflammatory effects in your body, and even protect your heart by lowering blood pressure and LDL cholesterol.

Garner's choice went over well. Followers took to the comments section of her post to not only marvel at her cinnamon sugar apple muffins, but also share their own tried-and-tested remedies for the hiccups. Garner confirmed that the muffins tasted as good as they looked and that the remedy she had settled on was successful. “Two lessons here!” she wrote in her caption. "1:) Hiccup cure = hold your breath, pull a pig. 🐷✍️ Number 2:) Apple muffins are delicious anytime. 🍎♥️"