Cream Cheese & Cranberry Muffins
- 120 grams Cream cheese
- 60 grams Dried cranberries
- 150 grams Plain white flour
- 50 grams Butter
- 50 grams Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 190 ml Milk
- 2 tsp Baking powder
- 1 pinch Salt
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
- Preheat the oven to 200C.
- Warm the butter to room temperature to soften.
- In a second bowl, cream the softened butter and sugar together.
- Beat the egg and add to the second bowl with the butter and sugar.
- Mix well and don't worry if the mixture is lumpy.
- Add the contents of the first bowl to the second with the milk and mix.
- I used 190 ml this time.
- Adjust the quantity of milk to the size of the egg.
- So at first, just add 150 ml then keep adding little by little until the batter is smooth like pancake mix.
- Line the muffin pan with cupcake liners (or if you don't have any, lightly grease with butter) and add about 2 tablespoons of the batter into each cup.
- Add the cream cheese, about 10 g for each muffin.
- (If you're using blocks of Kiri Cream Cheese, then cut each one in half and add half a block to each muffin).
- Scatter cranberries on top.
- Cover the muffins with 2 more tablespoons of batter.
- If you do it this way, the cheese will melt into the cake and you don't have to worry about burning the cranberries.
- Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
- Once baked, take out of the oven and leave for 5 minutes.
- Since they contain a lot of milk, the muffins will be quite soft so they will be easier to take out of the tray if you leave them for a while.
- Chill in the refrigerator.
- 10 minutes after removing them from the oven, I tried one and the cheese was nice and melted.
- Of course they're great just out of the oven but they're also delicious cooled.
- You could eat them warm the next day by either warming them in the oven at 50C for 3-5 minutes or microwaving one at a time for 20-30 seconds.
- The muffin pan I used was just 2 cm deep so I could make 12 muffins, but if you use a regular pan you'll only get 9.
- These muffins are great if you use dried fruit such as blueberries, cherries or cranberries soaked in rum or brandy.
- Here's a related recipe for Cream Cheese and Cranberry Bread.
cream cheese, cranberries, white flour, butter, sugar, egg, milk, baking powder, salt
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/168375-cream-cheese-cranberry-muffins (may not work)