Jam-Filled Almond Muffins

Submitted by Redsie

"From Eating Well. Made these with 1/3 cup marmalade and they came out delicious! Baked for about 25 minutes at a 350F oven."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Yields: 10 muffins
• Serves: 10

ingredients

• 1 1⁄4 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 large egg
• 1⁄2 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1⁄4 cup orange juice
• 1⁄4 cup canola oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1⁄3 1/3 cup raspberry jam or 1/3 cup cherry jam
• 1⁄4 teaspoon almond extract
• 1⁄2 cup sliced almonds
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar

directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F Coat 12 muffin cups with cooking spray.
2. Whisk whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
3. Whisk eggs and brown sugar in a medium bowl until smooth. Add buttermilk, orange juice, oil and vanilla; whisk to blend. Add to the dry ingredients and mix with a rubber spatula just until moistened.
4. Scoop half the batter into the prepared pan. Mix jam and almond extract; drop a generous teaspoonful into the center of each muffin. Spoon on the remaining batter, filling each muffin cup completely. Sprinkle with almonds, then sugar.
5. Bake the muffins until the tops are golden brown and spring back when touched lightly, 15 to 25 minutes. Loosen edges and turn muffins out onto a wire rack to cool slightly before serving.

Reviews

[CoCaShe]

These muffins were pretty good. I baked them for about 20 minutes in a 400F oven, and used sugar-free wild berry jam which was very good. The only complaint is that the batter was quite thick, which meant that instead of flowing nicely around the jam filling when I was filling the muffin tins, the batter sort of squished the jam down and out (you can see in my pictures that the jam bled out, which looks beautiful!). Also, the parts of the muffin without jam are quite dry, while the jam seemed to have seeped into the batter elsewhere. Although they tasted ok and looked nice on the outside, I was hoping to have a nice jam-center when you cut or bite into them, so that's why the 4 star rating.

 

[Boomette]

Delicious. They were in the oven for 25 minutes. Maybe too much. 20 minutes would have been better. I used only all purpose flour. I used blueberry jam. Thanks Redsie. Made for newest zaar tag.