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Merry Christmas Muffins

4 Comments Holiday Baking, Sweet baking candied orange peel, christmas, cinnamon, cranberries, marzipan, muffins, vanilla

Imagine serving this as breakfast in bed on Christmas morning with a glass of fresh orange and cranberry juice!

I think these festive muffins are great to bake for a Christmas morning breakfast or brunch. I especially love the moistness and the surprise, because every bite gives you a different combination of tastes and textures.

I dreamed up these muffins because I wanted to use my home made candied orange peel and sweet marzipan. Together with the red cranberries and not forgetting the hint of cinnamon, the house is smelling like Christmas before the family can make their wishes!

Make this recipe with fresh cranberries. They will ‘explode’ into the muffins and give of that extra Christmas red. ‘Tis the season to use them!

Ingredients for Merry Christmas Muffins

100 g just melted butter

275 ml yogurt or buttermilk (=285 g)

200 g sugar

300 g self raising flour

2 large organic eggs, beaten

100 g fresh cranberries

100 g good marzipan in little pieces (see recipe)

little pieces of candied orange peel (see recipe)

pinch of salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

tsp vanilla extract

some raw cane sugar to sprinkle on top

This is how you make the muffins
Preheat the oven at 180ºC / 355ºF conventional setting.
Grease a muffin tray, or use a silicon mold.

Mix the wet ingredients in a bowl. Sift flour, salt and cinnamon in a separate bowl. Mix wet and dry ingredients until just combined. Carefully fold the cranberries, orange peel and marzipan pieces trough the mixture. Fill the molds and sprinkle some raw cane sugar on top of each muffin.

Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. Serve warm! If there are still some left when cold you can also dust them with icing sugar.

Or make one bigger cake and give away as a lovely Christmas present

Note: The muffins in the picture are quite big. You can always share one, because with the Christmas bread and other cheer you spread on the table, it can get a bit much. With Christmas I just love the abundance of food. But you can always make mini versions of these muffins and hungry people can have two!

Have you seen our recipe for Cinnamon Sugar Crusted Christmas Scones?

Holiday Baking, Sweet baking candied orange peel, christmas, cinnamon, cranberries, marzipan, muffins, vanilla

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  1. Alisa Cohen says

    December 26, 2022 at 20:52

    These were just delicious! I added the rind of an organic orange, rather than the orange peel because it was easier. I hope you ‘re doing well, Marieke!

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  2. Ramona Roller says

    December 18, 2018 at 17:21

    Can you post a equivalent exchange list for us , that changes gram measurements to American measurements? I would love to try many recipes that I see, but have no way to measure my ingredients in grams! I use only tsps. and cup measurements. Thank you! Ramona Roller, Cumberland , Maryland
    EMAIL: tripacer94@gmail.com

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    • Weekend Bakers says

      December 20, 2018 at 08:53

      Hello Ramona,
      We have quick and easy to use converter tools for you here:
      www.weekendbakery.com/cooki…nversions/
      The cranberries are about 1 cup, the marzipan about halve a cup we guestimate.
      Merry Christmas baking

      Note for all bakers: We very much recommend weighing your ingredients. Professional bakers use scales (also in the US, look at recent baking shows) and in Europe home bakers do too. A scale will give you the exact same weight every time. Which is absolutely needed if you consistently want to make good bread and especially good pastry. You can get a scale for the same price as a few sacks of good flour and less than a lot of baking tools you already own, so if possible, go and get one!

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