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Christmas Morning Muffins

Butter-less, easy moist cranberry orange muffins are perfect for Christmas morning breakfast.
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 12
Calories 175kcal
Author Usha Rao

Equipment

  • Mixing Bowl
  • Handheld mixer or Stand Mixer
  • 12 cups Muffin Pan

Ingredients

  • 250 grams All Purpose Flour (approx. 1 ¾ cup)
  • 2 ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
  • ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 100 grams Superfine Sugar approx. ½ cup
  • 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon I used ½ – ¾ tsp.
  • ¼ teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
  • 1 Orange, zest and juice
  • 125 ml Whole Milk less or more depending on the citrus juice
  • 75 grams Vegetable Oil (approx. ⅓ cup oil)
  • 1 Large Egg
  • 175 grams Dried Cranberries approx. 1 cup firmly packed
  • 3 teaspoon Granulated Sugar for topping

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 400F.
  • Line 12 cups regular muffin pan. I used a ½ dozen muffin pan and ½ dozen paper muffin cups.
  • Measure all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder and nutmeg powder. Sieve all these ingredients together or take all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk until well combined.
  • Add superfine sugar, orange/clementine zest to flour bowl and whisk or mix until combined. If doing the prep work ahead of time, that is night before, leave out the orange zest. Add the zest next morning, just before baking.
  • Squeeze the juice from orange/clementines. Take it in a measuring cup or a jug. I got about 120 ml of orange juice.
  • Fill the juice cup or jug with milk until the mark reads 200 ml, less than 1 cup.
  • Add egg and oil to juice+milk mixture and lightly beat until combined.
  • Pour this egg juice mixture into dry ingredient bowl and stir with a fork or a spoon until everything is combined. Do not over mix and a slightly lumpy batter is ok, though my batter was lump free.
  • Fold in the cranberries and spoon the batter into lined muffins pan.
  • Sprinkle demerara sugar on top, ¼ teaspoon per muffin and bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes or until tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean and muffins are light golden brown. I forgot to sprinkle sugar on before baking hence my muffins aren’t golden brown.
  • Serve the muffins hot as is or with some butter or jam.

Notes

  • Whenever a recipe has weight measures, I prefer those over cup measurements. Cup measures listed below are approximate measures.
  • Suggestion - Walnuts would be a nice addition or perhaps some choco chips.
  • Nutrition - Values listed are approximate.

Nutrition

Calories: 175kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 145mg | Potassium: 68mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 62IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 74mg | Iron: 1mg