Cranberry-Orange Muffins
I clipped this recipe from the food section of the newspaper a couple of weeks ago. It calls for 1 1/2 cups whole fresh cranberries, but I gave them a quick pulse in the food processor. The batter is foamy: there's 1 T. of baking powder to 2 cups flour, so hopefully they'll be nice and light textured. The yield is wrong. It says "makes 12 muffins", but I filled a standard muffin tin 2/3 full and still had plenty of batter for 6 more, so I'd say "makes 18 muffins". I'll freeze the intended 12 for Gary's Birthday/Thanksgiving week, and we'll go ahead and eat the extras.
- Cranberry-Orange Muffins (Mad About Muffins, Dot Vartan)
posted by Amy @ 10/28/2004 09:02:00 AM
2 Comments:
I'm not crazy about cranberry. Hmm, I'm surprised it's fresh cranberry instead of dried. I don't know why I expected dried. But any muffin that has a hint of citrus, yum. Orange zest? Orange juice? Both?
I tried them. I have a cranberry nut bread that uses fresh cranberries that I like better. Also, I should note that they are light textured, but they didn't rise much. No nice "crown". Maybe I should have filled them all the way, but with most muffin batter, if you did that they'd overflow. I thought 2/3 was standard. They're pretty good but nothing to get too excited about.
Orange marmalade and frozen OJ concentrate.
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