Christmas muffins with marzipan and cranberries
Perfect for the festive season are these Christmas muffins with marzipan and cranberries
Equipment
- 12 hole muffin tin
- 12 paper muffin cases or use silicon
Ingredients
- 200 gr all purpose flour
- 50 gr almond flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ginger spices
- 100 gr brown sugar
- 100 gr marzipan in small cubes
- 25 gr walnuts chopped
- 50 gr almond slivers
- 25 gr raisins
- 100 gr fresh cranberries
- 2 eggs
- 100 gr butter melted and cooled
- 225 gr Greek yogurt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180˚C (350˚F)
- Take a large mixing bowl and add the flour, almond flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, marzipan cubes, raisins, nuts and the fresh cranberries.
- Add the wet ingredients into another bowl. First whisk the eggs with the yogurt and add the melted butter. Whisk until combined before adding the dry to the wet ingredients.
- Stir well with a spoon. You don't want to overmix the batter. It's a fairly thick batter.
- Grease the muffin cases with a bit of oil or baking spray and divide the batter over the cases with two spoons. Press into the cases if necessary.
- Place the muffin tin in the oven and bake for around 20 minutes or until a wooden skewer comes out clean.
- Leave to cool on a wire rack and serve with some icing sugar.
Nutrition
Calories: 288kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 46mg | Sodium: 204mg | Potassium: 157mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 256IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 87mg | Iron: 2mg