Festive Christmas Muffins
Treat your family and friends over the festive period with these delicious Christmas Muffins
Ingredients
- 250g Plain Flour
- 2½ Tsp Baking Powder
- ½ Tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- 100g Caster Sugar
- 1 Tsp Ground Cinnamon
- ¼ Tsp Ground Nutmeg (or good grating of fresh nutmeg)
- 2 Clementines (or satsumas)
- 125 ml Full Fat Milk
- 75 ml Vegetable Oil (or melted butter left to cool slightly)
- 1 Large Egg
- 175g Dried Cranberries
- 3 Tsp Demerara Sugar
To Decorate
- Festive Cake Toppers – (edible silver balls, xmas trees, snowflakes)
- Melted Milk Chocolate or White Chocolate Drizzle
Recipe
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6/400ºF. Line a 12-bun muffin tin with muffin cases.
- Measure the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, caster sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg into a large bowl; grate the zest of the clementine/satsuma over, and combine.
- Squeeze the juice of the clementines/satsumas into a measuring jug, and pour in the milk until it comes up to the 200ml mark / halfway between the ¾ cup and 1 cup marks.
- Add the oil (or slightly cooled, melted butter) and egg, and lightly beat until just combined.
- Pour this liquid mixture into the bowl of dried ingredients and stir until everything is more or less combined, remembering that a well-beaten mixture makes for heavy muffins: in other words a lumpy batter is a good thing here.
- Fold in the cranberries, then spoon the batter into the muffin cases and sprinkle the demerara sugar on top. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes until golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Then it’s time to get festive and get your cake decorations onto the muffins!
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