Panettone Muffins
- Ready In:
- 39mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
12 muffins
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups dried fruit, diced
- 1⁄4 cup apple juice (or orange juice, rum, or a mixture)
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2⁄3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 1⁄4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (King Arthur)
- 2⁄3 cup whole milk
- 2 generous tablespoons coarse white decorator sugar, for topping
directions
- Mix the dried fruit and liquid of your choice in a bowl. Cover the bowl, and let the fruit sit overnight. Or speed up the process by heating fruit and liquid in the microwave till very hot, then cooling to lukewarm/room temperature, about 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Lightly grease a standard muffin tin. Or line with 12 paper or silicone muffin cups, and grease the cups with non-stick vegetable oil spray; this will ensure that they peel off the muffins nicely.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, cream together the butter, vegetable oil, and sugar until smooth.
- Add the eggs, beating to combine.
- Stir in the Fiori and vanilla.
- Whisk together the Cake Enhancer, baking powder, salt, and flour. Stir the dry ingredients into the butter mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour and making sure everything is thoroughly combined.
- Stir in the fruit, with any remaining liquid.
- Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared pan, filling the cups quite full. Sprinkle the tops of the muffins generously with the coarse sugar.
- Bake the muffins for 18 to 20 minutes, or until they're a sunny gold color on top, and a cake tester inserted into the middle of one of the center muffins comes out clean.
- Remove them from the oven, and let them cool for a couple of minutes, or until you can handle them. Transfer them to a rack to cool.
- NOTE 1: Additional Ingredients: This recipe also calls for 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon Fiori di Sicilia (to taste) and 2 tablespoons King Arthur Cake Enhancer (optional), for enhanced freshness. (Food.com didn't recognized these ingredients and wouldn't let me add them to the ingredients list.).
- NOTE 2: Prep Time: 15-25 minutes, Bake time: 18-20 minutes (Food.com wouldn't accept the range in times.).
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
marisk
honolulu, HI
<p>Aloha! I just recently started spending more time in the kitchen and am learning that cooking and baking can be fun as well as challenging. My favorite cookbook resources are my 'gourmet' sister and the very patient and generous Ohana of Zaar. Mahalo nui loa! <br /><br />My rating system: The first time I try a recipe, I follow the instructions as given; if I do a little tweaking, I keep that in mind when rating. It's not right to rate lower because of something I did or didn't do. <br />***** ... Excellent! Tasted great with/without tweaking. <br />**** ... Loved It! Tasted great with/without tweaking. <br />No stars ... May be an excellent recipe but I was unable to get it to work for me. May or may not try again later. We don't all have the same taste preferences. I've found recipes with lots of five stars that just didn't work for me and some with less that I thought were great. <br />Thank you All for sharing!</p>