Peppermint Muffins
Peppermint muffins is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the muffins category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 1 lemon (untreated)
- 1 tbsp finely chopped peppermint
- 1 egg
- 75 ml plant oil
- 125 g sugar
- 1 Tbsp vanilla sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 250 ml buttermilk
- 250 g flour
- 2 tsp Baking powder
- 24 sweet cherries, pitted
Instructions
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1.
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) with top and bottom heat. Place small paper cups or cut-out parchment circles into the depressions of a mini muffin tin.
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2.
Wash the lemon hot, pat dry, and zest it. Squeeze out the juice. Whisk the egg with the lemon zest, peppermint, lemon juice, plant oil, sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, and buttermilk. In a separate bowl mix flour with baking powder. Quickly fold the wet mixture into the dry until all ingredients are moist. Divide half of the batter into the paper cups in the tin, place two cherries on each, press lightly with your finger, then cover with the remaining batter.
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Bake in the hot oven on the middle rack for about 20 minutes until golden brown. Carefully lift the muffins from the tin and cool them on a wire rack. Serve garnished with peppermint leaves.
