Cranberry Orange Granola Crumble Topped Muffins Recipes

CRANBERRY-ORANGE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
• Mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Mix in cranberries.
• Whisk together orange juice, sugar, melted butter, egg, and orange zest in a separate bowl. Add orange juice mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until moistened; do not overmix. Spoon into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned and firm to the touch, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, mix together powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon orange juice, and orange zest for glaze. Add more orange juice, if necessary, to reach desired consistency. Drizzle glaze over cooled muffins.

CRANBERRY ORANGE GRANOLA CRUMBLE TOPPED MUFFINS

Steps:

• Soak the cranberries in the juice overnight, I added the zest to the jar also.
• (one jar with a lid, I save a PB jar for this use) The next day-- preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Spray either 6 large muffin baking cup pan or 12 small muffin cups with cooking spray.
• Make the topping, combine flour, cinnamon and sugar, cutting in margarine until mixture resembles coarse crumbs and set aside.
• In a large bowl, mix together the granola, soaked canberries and juice and applesauce.
• Set aside for 5 minutes, or until cereal is softened.
• Once cereal is soft, add the oil and the vanilla, place the oil in the jar to remove all flavor if desired.
• Stir together flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a medium bowl and set aside.
• Add the flour mixture to the cranberry mixture, stirring until combined, you will need to add the soy milk to make it not such a stiff dough, you may need up to 1/4 cup or more.
• Divide the mixture to muffin cups evenly.
• Sprinkle the muffins evenly with the topping.
• Bake for about 20 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
• Place on cooling rack, cover with a tea towel for 5 minutes.
• After the five minutes, run a butter knife around the muffins, then remove very carefully, they are very soft and delicate.
• Cool completely, place in tupperware lined with a paper towel.
• Freeze after 1-2 days, wrapped in plastic wrap.
• Tip: If you have no fresh oranges, cranberry orange juice (Minute Maid, I think) is a wonderful substitute or even OJ prepared from concentrate, but I prefer fresh as I like the zest added to these.

CRANBERRY CRUMB MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a standard 12-cup muffin tin with liners.
• Prepare the crumb mixture: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Add the butter, and stir to combine.
• Prepare the muffins: In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Add the cranberries and pecans, and gently toss to combine.
• In a small bowl, mix together the sour cream and the milk. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
• Fold the flour mixture into the butter mixture. Fold in the sour cream mixture. Divide the batter evenly between the muffin cups. Squeeze the crumb mixture to create clumps of varying size, and sprinkle evenly over the tops. (It's OK if some of the crumb mixture lands on the tray.)
• Bake the muffins until they are puffed and set, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 26 to 30 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.