Saturday, January 7, 2012

Cranberry Nut Muffins

Cranberry Nut Muffins
Merry Christmas and a very Happy Healthy Holy New Year! This is my first blog post for 2012 and I am still in the Christmas spirit! Today is still Christmas on some of your calendars and I still have my tree up! Hubs gave me a new laptop as my big Christmas gift, he is just the most thoughtful wonderful person! Now I can blog anywhere in the world! I have one of those older brains, which takes me a while to figure out these new electronics, so please bear with me.This is why I haven't blogged in weeks, but I am excited to learn and hoping it will make my life easier! This is one of my favorite recipes for the holidays or anytime. I really love the taste of cranberries, tart and crisp the way the cranberry bursts in my mouth. It has such a clean healthful taste as it lingers on, fruity-fresh. I have made this recipe before as a bread and wanted to experiment as to how they would turn out as a muffin.My kids absolutely adore muffins, I had to shoo my daughter away just to do a photo shoot, before the muffins were all gobbled up.








I use the whole cranberries, not chopped so that the muffins are bursting with cranberry flavor. Please make sure the cranberries are completely cooled so that you don't have 3rd degree burns in your mouth like me...








I love how the cranberry muffins look with Lily's Roses!


Oh great! The Barbie muffin paper got in the shot- so professional- Right??


It's Christmas by the bay and unseasonably warm, but there are no complaints here from "The L. A. Girl"! I can get used to this Maine living...last I heard at the local donut shop is that we are going to be making up for it and it will be a "Wicked Snowy Wintah!!" OH-OH.... the word wicked and wintah is really scaring me....but wait...I can bake all day if I am snowed in..yippee!!



My favorite tugs.
I love our harbor, I am so lucky that I can walk here everyday!! I have counted my blessings for 2011 and am very excited for 2012. Happy New Year to you. Love, Nettie

Ingredients:

2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup orange or clementine juice
1 tablespoon grated orange peel
2 tablespoons Vegetable oil
1 egg, well beaten
1 1/2 cups Fresh or Frozen Cranberries ( I use whole cranberries)
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Prepare muffin tins by placing muffin papers inside.If you are doing a photo shoot, leave the Barbie papers for personal use.

Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda in a medium mixing bowl. Stir in orange juice, orange peel, oil and egg. Mix until well blended. Stir in cranberries and nuts. Use an ice cream scooper and scoop batter into muffin papers.

Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a rack for 15 minutes. Makes 18- 24 muffins, depending on size.  This recipe has been linked up with my favorite fabulous blogs!
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8 comments:

  1. I love having a lap top and you will also!!! The muffins look really yummy and so does the picture of the bay. I am so enjoying not having any snow so far! Enjoy your weekend!

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  2. Thank you @walking on sunshine! I am so happy that you stopped by, my lap top really is a dream and my daughter is teaching me all kinds of fun stuff. I think you will love these muffins, they are very festive and delicious. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

    Nettie

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  3. I'm trying not to eat many carbs but this isn't helping me Nettie! They look great! :)

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  4. Thanks Carrie sorry about the carbo sitch, these are super yummy!

    Nettie

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  5. Hi! I wanted to stop by after you made such a nice comment about my Chicken Noodle soup at my blog. I enjoyed reading your post(I love that you're still enjoying Christmas!!), and your pictures turned out great! The muffins look yummy...I love cranberries. I hope you'll share at my Wed. parties in 2012! http://theshadyporch.blogspot.com/

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  6. Nettie, those muffins look delish! Your town looks so inviting, Glad you got to enjoy some warm weather, when they say the weather is going to be wicked, you'd better have a weeks worth of supplies to hold you over at all times! Stay warm!

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  7. I like how you used whole cranberries for that bursting effect which is so nice as part of a muffin or cake :)

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  8. Delicious! I would be the person who tried to eat one of those bad boys hot from the oven and get a cranberry-singed lip! Thanks for the fair warning... like a legal disclaimer but friendlier! Thanks for stopping by my blog too! See you soon.

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