White Chocolate Cranberry Muffins

Lalaloula's Note:

I came up with this recipe one day when searching a nice way to use up some leftover cranberries. I think the white chocolate goes great with the fruit and also gives the muffins a very special texture.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 14 muffins

• 280 g flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 egg
• 100 g sugar
• 80 ml oil
• 250 ml milk
• 100 g white chocolate (chopped)
• 200 g cranberries (I used canned ones)

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C and line a muffin pan.
2. In a bowl mix flour, baking powder, white chocolate and the spices.
3. In a second bowl beat the egg. Add sugar, oil and milk and blend in well.
4. Give the flour mixture to the egg mixture; add the cranberries and blend in only until a smooth dough has formed (do not overmix because otherwise the muffins will turn out gooey).
5. Pour into the muffin tin and bake for 20-25 minutes.

Reviews

[sofie-a-toast]

Lovely combination of the cranberry and white chocolate. A great morning (or afternoon, or night) treat! Just for my personal tastes I would have preferred a tad more sugar. Also, make sure to store these in an airtight container. They bake soft and moist and perfect but will dry out overnight if you don't.

[awalde]

WOW! The muffins were delicious!
I prepared them for the Valentine's day one day in advance, wrapped with plastic foil and kept in a fresh place. They were soft, moist, tasty, not to fat and we loved the spices in them a lot!

I added some coarse sugar on the top.
A perfect recipe a real keeper!

[loof]

WOW - these muffins are amazing! Easy to make, beautiful texture, beautiful flavor. I used white chocolate chips and fresh cranberries that I chopped a bit in my little food processor. These muffins have a wonderful balance of flavor; the chocolate is sweet, the muffin itself is not overly sweet, both perfect with the tart cranberries. Beautiful, delicious, bakery-quality muffins - thank you for sharing a keeper!