Cranberry and Orange Muffins
A great Christmas snack or dessert...
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Category:
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Snacks, Dessert
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Suitable for:
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Most sports
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Not suitable for:
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Quick and easy to make, these Cranberry and Orange muffins make a great treat or dessert at Christmas.
Can be served hot with vanilla custard as a dessert.
Ingredients
½ cup dried cranberries
1 medium orange or Clementine peels and finely chopped
1 ½ cups white flour
1 cup wholemeal flour
½ cup white sugar
2 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp ground cloves (optional)
¼ c vegetable oil
2 eggs beaten
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup semi skim milk
12-24 dried cranberries for topping
Method
In a bowl place the cranberries, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cloves.
In a separate bowl combine oil, eggs, vanilla and milk and mix into the dry ingredients.
Light stir until mixed. Mixture should resemble sticky porridge.
Spoon mixture into greased muffin tins or cups and top with remaining cranberries to decorate. Bake for 15 minutes until cooked at 180oC.
Nutrionalist profile
Jeni Pearce
Jeni is the Head of Performance Nutrition at the EIS and has worked with a number of sports at the elite level both in the UK and New Zealand. She is also the author of 13 books on sports nutrition.
Jeni enjoys creating new recipes for athletes to help them achieve their performance goals and promote recovery for the next training session.
She was the BOA nutritionist to the UK Beijing Olympic holding camp in Macau and currently is also the ECB Performance Nutritionist.
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