Following on from my last weekly tip ‘the health benefits of cranberries.’ I thought I would share this delicious recipe as another way to get this super nutritious fruit into your diet.
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter (at room temperature)
1/2 cup castor sugar
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup plain yoghurt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
3 tablespoons on orange zest
1 and 3/4 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 Tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice
1 Tablespoon milk
1 and 1/2 cups frozen cranberries
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
Method
Preheat the oven to 180degrees
Prepare muffin tray by either spraying or adding muffin cases
Add butter and sugars to a mixing bowl and cream together using an electric whisk until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs to the butter sugar mixture one at time.
Add the yoghurt, vanilla bean paste orange zest, orange juice and milk to the mixture and mix well.
In a separate bowl mix together the four, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet using a spoon to fold the mixture together.
Fold in the frozen cranberries and pumpkin seeds to the mixture.
Spoon mixture into prepared muffin cases until nearly full
Bake in the oven for around 25minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.