Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Cranberry Orange Muffins

You can always bank on moms to have the good stuff in bulk. When prepping for thanksgiving, she let me have a big ol' bag of cranberries that she had. In addition to having some to make homemade cranberry sauce, I also have plenty left over to make these bad boys.

A few months ago, I signed up for the weekly digest of Sally's Baking Addiction and every week I get an email fun of delicious recipe ideas. So much inspiration and so little time and money to make them all. This is one of those recipes- one that I knew I had to make!

Cranberry Orange Muffins
Makes 12 medium-sized muffins.

Ingredients
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temp
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs, room temp
1/2 cup yogurt (I used vanilla greek yogurt)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract (I used vanilla bean paste)
zest of 2 oranges
1 & 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp orange juice
2 tbsp milk (I used skim, can use any kind)
1 & 1/2 cups cranberries (fresh or frozen will work)

Glaze (optional): 3 tbsp orange juice and 1 cup powdered sugar

Directions

In medium or large bowl (I used my KitchenAid mixer), cream butter on high until smooth. Add sugars and cream together until smooth.

Scrape all ingredients to the bottom. Add vanilla, mix. Add one egg at a time mixing well. Then, add yogurt and make sure all ingredients are combined. Mine turned out a weird consistency- I think the protein in the greek yogurt did something odd- but it all worked out when I added the dry ingredients.

Add orange zest and mix until combined. Add salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon- make sure to mix well. Then, add flour and mix until combined.

Finally, add orange juice and milk and mix until combined. Using a rubber spatula or large spoon, mix in cranberries.

Fill well-greased muffin tins 2/3 of the way full with mixture. Top with 2-3 cranberries for color.


Bake at 450 for 5 minutes, then without opening the oven, lower the heat to 350 for 15 more minutes (the recipe said 18 more minutes, but mine were done in 15). The muffins will be finished baking when a toothpick comes out clean! :)

Optional- top with orange glaze drizzle. Mix together 3 tbsp orange juice and 1 cup of powdered sugar. Mix well and drizzle on top.


These turned out so yummy! 

Now... what am I going to do with other 2 & 1/2 pounds of cranberries?! ;) 

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