Christmas Recipes: Cakes & Tarts. No.3 of 7 - Christmas Day Muffins

Ho Ho Ho! You can vary this basic dough to make a wide variety of Christmas cookie recipes. Add other flavorings like maple, ginger or cinnamon.

Christmas Recipe Makes 12 calories per muffin: 175 preparation time: 15 minutes cooking time: 20 minutes Not suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe instructions:

• cranberries, fresh 175 g (6 oz)
• icing sugar, sifted 50 g (2 oz)
• flour, plain wholemeal 150 g (5 oz)
• flour, plain white 150 g( 5 oz)
• baking powder, 15 ml (1 tbsp)
• mixed spice, ground 5 ml (1 tsp)
• salt, 2.5 ml (half tsp)
• sugar, light brown 50 g (2 oz)
• egg, 1
• milk, 250 ml (8 fl oz)
• vegetable oil, 50 ml (2 fl oz)

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Mix the icing sugar with halved cranberries.
2. Take a twelve cup muffin tin and grease with butter or use paper cases. In a bowl mix the brown sugar, salt, mixed spice, baking powder and both flours. Make a hole in the middle.
3. Add a mixture of beaten egg/milk/oil into the hole and just blend. Then add the cranberries and quickly stir. The end product should be a rough mixture with lumps and air pockets visible. [Note: Instead of the cranberries you can use mincemeat (225 g, 8 oz) to put in the hole.]
   Ho Ho Ho! Then of course there's Christmas Day and the week following when we have about 6 tins of these treats to munch on. This is our excuse to have cookies at breakfast, lunch, dinner and at every chance we get during the day.
4. Take this mixture and fill the muffin cups to two thirds and bake at gas mark 4 (180 degfrees centigrade, 350 F) until they are golden brown and well risen. About 20 minutes.
5. Cool for a bit and serve warm.

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