Ekta's kitchen: SPICED FRUIT AND NUT MUFFINS

SPICED FRUIT AND NUT MUFFINS

INGREDIENTS

· 1 1/2CUPS flour

· 1/4tsp cinnamon powder

· 1/4tsp nutmeg

· 1/4tsp ginger powder

· 3/4cup powdered sugar

· 1/2cup or 100gms yellow butter

· 1/2cup milk

· 1 ½ tbsp vinegar

· 1/2tsp baking powder

· 1/2tsp soda-by-carb

· 1tsp vanilla essence

· 1/2cup kaju,badam,mixed cherries,walnut(rolled in 1tbsp maida)

· 1/2 tsp yellow food colouring

METHOD

1. Preheat oven at 180C.

2. Grease muffin moulds with some butter or oil.

3. Sift flour, mixed spice, baking powder three times.

4. Cream butter and suger until sugar dissolve and becomes fluffy. Butter and sugar mixture turn white in color or in pale yellow.

5. Rub flour mix with creamed butter. Its look in crumbly texture.

6. Mix vanilla essence and yellow color in crumble mix.

7. Divide milk into two parts. To one part which is at room temperature, add vinegar.

8. Warm the other part of milk slightly and add soda-bi-carb. Now mix both the milks together.

9. The milk will start foaming (bubbles appear). Mix quickly in cake mix very weel.

10. Add chopped dryfrits nad cherries on cake batter.

11. Fill all muffin moulds with cake batter. Sprinkle some more dry fruits on every muffins.

12. Bake in preheated oven at 180C for 20 min, then lower the temperature to 150C for another 20 min.

13. When the muffins are done, let it cool for 10 min before removing from the moulds.

14. Around 12 muffins are prepared from this receipe.

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