With only just over a month to Christmas why not try making my Christmas Day Muffin Recipe. Something for you to kick back and eat mid morning with nice cup of cocoa!
Christmas Recipe makes: 12
Calories per muffin: 175
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Not suitable for freezing
Ingredients:
• Cranberries, fresh 175 g (6 oz)
• Icing sugar, sifted 50 g (2 oz)
• Flour, plain wholemeal 150 g (5 oz)
• Flour, plain white 150 g( 5 oz)
• Baking powder, 15 ml (1 tbsp)
• Mixed spice, ground 5 ml (1 tsp)
• Salt, 2.5 ml (half tsp)
• Sugar, light brown 50 g (2 oz)
• Egg, 1
• Milk, 250 ml (8 fl oz)
• Vegetable oil, 50 ml (2 fl oz)
Christmas recipe instructions
1. Mix the icing sugar with halved cranberries.
2. Take a twelve cup muffin tin and grease with butter or use paper cases. In a bowl mix the brown sugar, salt, mixed spice, baking powder and both flours. Make a hole in the middle.
3. Add a mixture of beaten egg/milk/oil into the hole and just blend. Then add the cranberries and quickly stir. The end product should be a rough mixture with lumps and air pockets visible. [Note: Instead of the cranberries you can use mincemeat (225 g, 8 oz) to put in the hole.]
4. Take this mixture and fill the muffin cups to two thirds and bake at gas mark 4 (180 degrees centigrade, 350 F) until they are golden brown and well risen. About 20 minutes.
5. Cool for a bit and serve warm. |
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