Merry Christmas Muffins Recipes

EASY PEASY GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 220C / 425F / Gas mark 7 and lightly grease a 12 hole muffin pan or use liners.
• In a medium sized bowl add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, all the spices and salt and give them a little whisk together.
• Pour in the buttermilk, sugar, oil, eggs, molasses and vanilla extract. Give everything a gentle mix together.
• Please be gentle so your muffins remain light and fluffy. Over mixing the batter at this point will give you tough hard muffins.
• Scoop the batter into your muffin pan filling each hole about 2/3rds full. You should have enough batter to fill the 12 holes.
• If using sprinkle the tops of your muffins with a little coarse sugar.
• Pop the pan into your hot oven. After 5 minutes reduce the heat in your oven to 190C / 375F / Gas mark 5 and bake for a further 15 minutes. The initial burst of heat will give them the high domes and the lower heat will bake them through without burning.
• Check your muffins after the remaining 13 minutes to see if they are baked through, insert a skewer and if it comes out clean then they are baked through. If not give them another minute and check again.
• Carefully remove the hot muffins from the pan to a wire rack to fully cool down then enjoy.
• Kept in an airtight tin these muffins will last for 5 days but like a lot of baked goods they are best consumed on the day of baking.
• These muffins will also freeze for 2 months.

MINCEMEAT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400F.
• Stir together flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
• In a small bowl mix together buttermilk, melted butter and egg. Add wet ingredients to the dry mixture and stir until everything is moist.
• Fold in mincemeat and pecans, until evenly incorporated.
• Fill a greased muffin tin ¾ full with batter. Bake 15-20 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to serve or cool completely.

MERRY CHRISTMAS MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first five ingredients. In a small bowl, beat eggs, oil and vanilla; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in carrots, apple, coconut, fruit and raisins. Fill 16 paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. For frosting, combine butter, cream cheese, sugar, juice and vanilla in a bowl; beat until smooth and creamy. Spread over muffins. Sprinkle with cherries.

OATMEAL EGGNOG MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Line two standard 6-cavity muffin pans with paper cups and spray each cup with a nonstick spray. You can also use a 12-cavity cupcake pan.
• Place the oats and eggnog in a bowl and let stand for 20 minutes.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
• In a separate bowl, lightly beat the eggs.
• Stir the eggs into the eggnog mixture; mix in the vanilla, rum, brown sugar, and vegetable oil.
• Pour the eggnog mixture into the flour mixture and stir just until combined. Do not overmix.
• Divide the batter evenly among the prepared muffin cups, sprinkling turbinado sugar on top of each muffin.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Let cool for 5 minutes before turning them out onto a cooling rack.