This is yet another muffin recipe from me. I know I am giving you an over dose of muffins. S even joked that I should be called as Miss Muffin. At first, I thought of not posting the recipe. But then these muffins were so tasty that I thought it would be a shame if I did not share the recipe with you.
I had some oranges in the fridge and there was some apricots. I decided to put them together and bake these muffins. The apricots gave a moist richness to the otherwise regular orange muffins . Apart from these already healthy ingredients, there is also oats and corn meal which give these muffins a healthy boost. mmmmm too good!!! Shall we move on to the recipe??
Apricot Orange muffins recipe:
Preparation time: 20min
Baking time: 20min
Makes- 10 muffins
Ingredients:
Freshly squeezed orange juice- 1 cup
Chopped Apricots- 1/2 cup
Raisins or currants- 1/2 cup
All purpose flour or maida- 1 cup
Oats- 1/2 cup
Corn meal- 1/2 cup
Sugar- 1/2 cup
Butter- 2 tbsp
Baking powder- 2 tsp
Baking soda- 1 tsp
Nutmeg Powder- A pinch
Vanilla essence- 1 tsp
Thick butter milk- 1/2 cup
Method:
- Sift the all purpose flour along with the baking powder, baking soda and nutmeg
- Add the corn meal, and oats to the flour mixture and mix well
- In a separate bowl, mix the butter, butter milk, sugar and vanilla essence and beat well
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix till the ingredients are well combined
- Fold in the chopped apricot and raisins and mix gently.
- Fill the batter in greased muffin cups till 3/4th full and bake in preheated oven at 180C for 20 to 25 min or till the muffins are brown and firm to touch.
- Allow the muffins to cool in the muffin cups for 5min before cooling them on the wire rack.
Note: The muffins turned out a little crumbly in texture because of the corn meal. Feel free to substitute the corn meal with APF if you want the muffins to be soft.
I have used 1/2 cup sugar because I felt that muffins would become too sweet along with the apricots and currants. You can increase the sugar by 1/4 cup if you want the muffins to be sweeter.
These muffins will go to YBR event hosted by Nancy of Spicie foodie
These muffins will go to YBR event hosted by Nancy of Spicie foodie