Dried Cranberry and Orange Muffins

Submitted by Nancy G.

"This recipe came from the cookbook More Muffins. It's great in the fall with your coffee!"

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 12 muffins

ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 2⁄3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
• 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 large egg, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon orange zest
• 3⁄4 cup dried cranberries
• 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup pecans

directions

1. Preheat oven to 400º. Butter twelve muffin cups and edges surrounding the cups.
2. In a large bowl, stir together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, stir together buttermilk, oil, egg, vanilla, and orange peel. Make a well in the center of dry ingredients; add milk mixture and stir just to combine. Stir in cranberries and nuts.
3. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of one muffin comes out clean.
4. Remove muffin pan to wire rack. Cool for 5 minutes before carefully removing muffins from cups; finish cooling on rack. Serve warm or cool completely and store in airtight container at room temperature.

Reviews

[beckysu92901]

Yummy! Moist and not-too-sweet! If you want as a dessert, you may want to increase sugar, but it is a great complement to a cup of coffee. I substituted orange extract for the vanilla and used dried orange peel instead of fresh zest -- also did not have buttermilk, so substituted 1 TBSP white vinegar and milk to make a cup. . . made mine with pecans. Note that they "looked" done (lightly browned) at 15 minutes, so the toothpick test is necessary -- they were still batter in the middle. . . ended up with 20 minutes.

 

[Kathy Tait]

I made this recipe today. I used orange juice and milk to the amount needed. I boiled the cranberries in orange juice. I also used white sugar and not brown. I would add more zest next time and decrease the baking soda just a bit. Nice and moist muffin.

 

[Lisa Lisa Ann]

My muffins turned out OK. I used 3/4 cup brown sugar like suggested in other reviews and soaked my dried cranberries. It turned out a bit too sweet and the cranberries lost a lot of flavor (probably in soaking). The muffins taste like orange sweet bread. Since I did not follow the recipe as posted, I still gave it 4 stars because I think I'd like it better if I did not make the changes.

 

[Zewbiedoo]

Very nice muffin, though I would like for them to be a little bit sweeter. Easy to make. Thanks for sharing!

 

[francine70_1999]

Great recipe! I added 3/4 cup of brown sugar as recommended in the previous rating. Also, I soaked my dried cranberries in water the night before, to make them plump. Yummmm. I am very happy with this recipe.