Red Currant Muffins Gluten Free Food

RED CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar.
• Add both eggs and orange peel, or flower water and beat well.
• Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into the creamed mixture and lightly blend.
• Fold in the red currants.
• Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full and bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until muffins test done.
• Cool for 5 minutes before placing on wire rack.
• Dust with confectioners' (icing) sugar once completely cooled.

RED CURRANT CRUMBLE BARS (GLUTEN FREE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Grease a 8x8 or 11x7 baking dish with butter or place a parchment paper so you can easily pull the crumble out of the dish when ready. I used an 11 X 7 baking dish.
• In a medium bowl mix red currants, sugar and starch.
• In a separate large bowl whisk dry ingredients and then add cold butter and egg.
• Whisk to combine well.
• Press about ⅔ of the ready-made dough into the baking dish. Even the surface as much as you can however it is not extremely important as you will be following with a layer of berries that will melt after baking.
• Spread your red currants mixture all over the dough and sprinkle leftover dough on top. I like to make large and small crumbles. Simply squeeze different sized chunks of dough between your fingers into balls and sprinkle all over.
• Transfer to oven for 35-45 minutes until currants are bubbly and crumble on top crispy.
• Take the crumble out and let it cool completely until cutting and serving.

RED CURRANT MUFFINS (GLUTEN FREE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease 12 muffin tins or line with paper casings.
• Combine flour, xanthan, baking powder, ground almonds and cinnamon.
• Cream butter, brown sugar, buttermilk and egg yolks, add vanilla.
• Beat egg whites until glossy and nearly stiff, then continue beating, slowly adding the powdered sugar, until you get stiff peaks.
• Combine flour mixture and creamed butter-buttermilk-egg yolk-sugar mixture.
• Carefully fold currants into stiff egg whites, then gently fold egg whites with currants into muffin batter.
• Fill 12 muffin tins.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) for 20-25 minutes.

NEARLY NORMAL GLUTEN-FREE FLOUR MIX

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together; store in an airtight container.

RED CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Grease muffin cups and place the in the freezer until use.
• Preheat oven (360°F, 180°C).
• In a bowl mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and currants; set aside.
• In a large bowl beat the egg slightly. Add sugar, vegetable oil and buttermilk and mix thoroughly.
• Add flour-currant mixture and stir just until combined. Batter will be sticky.
• Divide batter equally among the prepared muffin cups. Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean.
• Meanwhile prepare the meringue topping. Beat egg whites and salt with a mixer on high speed until foamy and soft peaks are formed, then gradually add powdered sugar and beat until meringue is stiff. At last fold in the currants carefully.
• When muffins are done, remove from oven. Spread the meringue topping on each muffin. Put the muffins back into the oven and let the meringue topping dry out for about 5 - 10 minutes. The meringue topping should be white or only slightly brown.
• Remove muffins from oven and let cool down in muffin cups for 5 - 10 minutes. Then remove the muffins from the cups and serve warm or let cool down completely.
• NOTE: You can replace red currants by black currants or other small berries.

CRANBERRY SAUCE MUFFINS (GLUTEN FREE)

Steps:

• In a large bowl combine the flours, oats, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, orange zest and cinnamon. Whisk together to thoroughly combine.
• In a medium bowl combine the whole berry cranberry sauce, yogurt, coconut oil, eggs and orange extract.
• Make a well in the center of dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients. Stir to combine with a rubber spatula. Cover bowl and allow to rest for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare a 12 cup muffin tin by lining with muffin liners and lightly spraying with a gluten free non-stick cooking spray. Using a well rounded 1/3 cup scoop, divide the batter and scoop into prepared tin. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until lightly browned and cooked through. Gluten free baking requires a slightly longer cook time.

RED CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and orange zest. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture just until blended. Fold in currants. , Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Serve warm.