Cheery cherry muffins
12 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups | Flour |
| ⅓ | cup | Sugar |
| ⅓ | cup | Maraschino cherries, quartered |
| 1 | tablespoon | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt, optional |
| ¾ | cup | Buttermilk |
| ¼ | cup | Vegetable oil |
| 4 | tablespoons | Cherry juice |
| 1 | Egg, beaten | |
| 1 | teaspoon | Almond extract |
| 4 | tablespoons | Almonds, finely chopped |
| 3 | tablespoons | Sugar |
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease muffin cups.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cherries, baking powder and salt.
3. In a separate bowl, mix milk, oil, cherry juice, egg, and almond extract.
4. Make a well in the dry ingredients and stir in liquid just to moisten.
5. Fill muffin cups ⅔ full.
6. Combine almonds and remaining sugar; sprinkle over batter.
7. Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes.
8. Cool 10 minutes before removing from muffin cups.
9. Makes 12 muffins
Recipe by: Nothin' but Muffins Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #661 by Diana Stephens <mdstephe@...> on Jul 8, 1997