Macadamia nut muffins - bon appetit
10 muffins
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature |
| 1 | cup | Firmly packed golden brown sugar |
| 3 | larges | Eggs |
| ¾ | teaspoon | Almond extract |
| ½ | teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
| 1 | cup | Plus 2 T bread flour |
| 1¼ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¼ | cup | Whipping cream |
| ¾ | cup | Coarsely chopped macadamia nuts (about 3 3/4 oz) |
| ⅓ | cup | Whole macadamia nuts |
Directions
Preheat oven to 350'F. Line 10 muffin cups with paper muffin liners.
Using electric mixer, beat ½ C butter and 1 C brown sugar in large bowl to blend. Add 3 eggs and mix well. Beat in almond and vanilla extracts. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl. Add to butter mixture and beat until combined. Add whipping cream and beat just until smooth. Fold in chopped macadamia nuts. Divide batter equally among prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle each muffin with whole macadamia nuts. Bake until tester inserted into center of muffim comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Bon Appetit/Sept/94 Scanned & edited by Di Pahl & <gg>