Friday, 31 December 2010

Christmas pudding muffins



Bizarrely I don’t cook over xmas, I eat lots but it is always at other people’s houses, in restaurants or a quick snack of cheese and biscuits. So when my few quiet days before new year came around I took the opportunity to do some baking.

I’d ended up with some left over Christmas pudding, and, much as I love it, didn’t fancy the full on richness of it on its own. Just before Christmas I had half seen Rachel Allen (I think) making Christmas pudding muffins so I thought I would do the same by tweaking my usual muffin recipe.

As an aside I claim not to like muffins – but as there are two muffin recipes on here I think that might be a lie. Instead I think I don’t like shop bought blueberry (yuck) muffins – what a snob I am!

300g Christmas pudding, chopped/crumbled into small pieces
100g caster sugar
300g flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
200ml milk
100g butter, melted and then cooled

Preheat the oven to 200C.

Sift the flour into a bowl and mix in the sugar and baking powder then stir in the Christmas pudding. Beat the eggs, milk and butter together. Roughly combine all the ingredients.

Spoon the mixture into 12 muffin cases and bake for 30 minutes.

Eat with a big mug of tea or with warm with brandy butter.

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