White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Muffins

Submitted by Lorraine of AZ

"There are plenty of sweets on site with the white chocolate-macadamia nut combination, but not one muffin could I find. These are terrific. Toasted coconut is added and what a natural affinity these three flavors have for each other! These are sweet muffins, perhaps more suitable for teatime than for breakfast, but we eat them any time of day. I got the recipe from "White Chocolate," a book by Janice Wald Henderson."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 12 muffins

ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1⁄2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk, ar room temperature
• 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 egg, at room temperature, lightly beanten
• 1 3⁄4 cups white chocolate chips
• 3 1⁄2 ounces lightly salted coarsely chopped macadamia nuts (scant 3/4 cup)
• 3⁄4 cup shredded coconut, toasted

directions

1. With the rack in the center of the oven, preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly butter twelve 3-1/2 inch muffin cups, or line with paper liners.
2. In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder and salt.
3. In another bowl, whisk together the milk, butter vanilla, and egg.
4. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Gradually stir in the liquid ingredients just until combined. Do not overstir.
5. Stir in the white chocolate chips, nuts and coconut.
6. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling to the top.
7. Bake in preheated oven about 20 minutes or until muffins are a very light brown and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
8. Cool muffins in pan on wire rack 5 minutes. Remove muffins from the pan and eat while warm or serve cooled to room temperature on rack.
9. Store in an airtight container up to 2 days or freeze up to 1 month.

Reviews

[lukeridge]

This recipe is brilliant! It makes 12 very good sized muffins that are delicious warm but also very nice after they've cooled. I don't tend to add the coconut because my Dad doesn't like it! Very easy recipe to use - P.S. 8 Tablespoons of butter = 200g in case you wondered.

 

[sszz907]

I received raving compliments when I made these muffins at Christmastime. The only changes I made were substituting whole wheat flour for the all purpose flour and canola oil for the melted butter. I made 15 muffins with this recipe and they turned out wonderful!