Muffins With Dried Cherries Food

DRIED CHERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Fold in cherries., Coat muffin cups with cooking spray or line with paper liners; fill three-fourths full. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack. Serve warm.

DRIED CHERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Combine the cherries and buttermilk in a small bowl, and set aside to soak for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Spray 18 muffin cups with nonstick spray or line them with paper liners and set aside.
• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar.
• In a measuring cup, combine the egg substitute, applesauce and almond extract.
• Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, and spoon the buttermilk and cherries into it.
• Then add the egg-substitute mixture.
• Mix until thoroughly blended, but do not overmix.
• Fill the prepared muffin cups two-thirds full with batter, and bake for 18 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the top springs back when touched lightly with a fingertip.
• Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

MUFFINS WITH DRIED CHERRIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400˚F. Grease a standard 12-cup muffin tin with butter. In a small bowl, toss the dried cherries with a bit of flour, which will help prevent them from sinking to the bottoms of the muffins.
• In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt until it's evenly combined. In another bowl or a largish measuring cup, whisk together the milk and eggs, then add in the melted butter and orange zest. Make a hole in the center of the dry ingredients, and pour in the wet, then fold everything together to make a batter. Work quickly, and don't overbeat: you don't want tough muffins. Fold in the floured cherries, leaving any excess flour behind.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, filling the muffin cups 3/4 full. If you like, you might sprinkle the tops of the muffins with some extra sugar - if you do, make it the coarse crunchy stuff - but I did not, and the result was very fine.
• Bake at 400˚F 20-25 minutes, until the muffins are golden and a toothpick comes out clean when poked into the center muffin. Let cool in the pan undisturbed for 5-10 minutes, then tip the muffins to expose the bottoms to cool thoroughly - except, of course, for the ones you snag to eat when they're still warm.

BASIC MUFFIN RECIPE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line 2 muffin trays with paper muffin cases. In a large bowl beat 2 medium eggs lightly with a handheld electric mixer for 1 min.
• Add 125ml vegetable oil and 250ml semi-skimmed milk and beat until just combined then add 250g golden caster sugar and whisk until you have a smooth batter.
• Sift in 400g self-raising flour and 1 tsp salt (or 400g plain flour and 3 tsp baking powder if using) then mix until just smooth. Be careful not to over-mix the batter as this will make the muffins tough.
• Stir in 100g chocolate chips or dried fruit if using.
• Fill muffin cases two-thirds full and bake for 20-25 mins, until risen, firm to the touch and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. If the trays will not fit on 1 shelf, swap the shelves around after 15 mins of cooking.
• Leave the muffins in the tin to cool for a few mins and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

BRAN MUFFINS WITH DRIED FRUIT

Steps:

• Combine milk and bran flakes and allow to sit in a bowl.
• Combine dry ingredients, including fruit (I use peaches, apricots, cherries, cranberries, prunes or whatever combo I have in the house).
• Mix eggs, banana, vanilla and oil well and add to bran mixture.
• Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients.
• Stir to blend, but don't overmix.
• Bake at 375° for 20 minute.
• Makes about 18 regular-size muffins.
• I usually make 6 Texas-size muffins, and use the rest for mini-muffins (bite size). It makes 18 of the regular size muffins.

DRIED FRUIT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 425°F. Lightly grease the cups of a standard 12-cup muffin pan. Or line the cups with papers, and grease the papers.
• Blend together the dry ingredients, add chopped fruit and stir.
• Beat the liquid ingredients together - milk, oil or butter, eggs, and vanilla - until light.
• Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Take a fork or wire whisk and blend the two briefly - about 20 seconds should do it.
• Fill the cups of the muffin pan two-thirds to three-quarters full. Sprinkle with sparkling white sugar, if desired.
• Bake the muffins for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of one of the center muffins comes out clean. Remove them from the oven, and as soon as you can handle them turn them out of the pan onto a rack to cool.

MEAN CHEF'S DRIED CHERRY CORN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Spray a 12 cup muffin tin.
• Place cherries and 1 tbl flour in bowl, toss and set aside.
• Combine milk, melted butter and eggs in a bowl.
• Set aside.
• In bowl of mixer combine flour, sugar, cornmeal, baking powder and salt.
• Mix with paddle to blend.
• Add milk mixture and mix on low until just blended.
• Add cherries and mix to combine.
• Spoon into muffin tin.
• Bake until tests done.
• Remove muffins from pan to cool.