This Cranberry Orange Muffin recipe is a great one for our family. The kids enjoy baking them with me and I enjoy that they request something other than a Casey’s donut for breakfast. (No, we rarely serve donuts for breakfast with the exception of special occasions. However, they still request them several times a week).
They are moist, sweet and easy to make.
Focus on the sweet little 4 year old waiting for his muffin….not the fingerprints all over the stove.
Cooling…..
Patiently waiting for mom to take a picture – dirty face and bed head not required to enjoy these muffins. (ha)
Cranberry Orange Muffins
Author: Shelby
Recipe type: Breakfst
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Serves: 12 muffins
Ingredients
- 2 Cups flour
- ⅔ Cup of Sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 Cup Craisins (dried cranberries)
- 1 egg
- 1 Cup Orange Juice
- ¼ Cup canola oil
- 1 tsp grated orange zest
- sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Rehydrate craisins in the orange juice (bring oj and craisins to a boil on stovetop)
- Once rehydrated separate orange juice and cranberries
- Mix dry ingredients together and gently fold in cranberries
- Beat together egg, orange juice, oil and orange juice
- Pour above liquid mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until moistened
- Spoon into a greased muffin tin (3/4 full) and sprinkle tops with sugar
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes until lightly browned and firm to touch
- Remove from oven and allow to cool.
Enjoy!
These are lovely. I made them this morning for my hubby and grandson and they were a hit. I am also sharing a few with my folks today for mom’s 83rd birthday care package. I love your blog
Lilah
Thank you so much for trying the recipe and for reading the blog. So glad you like both!
Your kids have good taste in donuts, Shelby! My favorite. 😉 Nikki
My cranberry orange muffins turned out greenish gray. Maybe I should not have boiled in oj. The cranberry were soft, but package said dried., What did I do wrong?
Hi Barb! Sorry to hear your muffins had a funny color. I am not sure what would have caused that. What type of cranberries did you use? I use ocean spray craisins. So they are dried, but soft and raisin like. When you rehydrate in the oj, they plump up and become very tender. Is that what happened with yours? What color was the oj after rehydrating? If not the cranberries, my only other thought is the orange zest?