How To Make Cherry Muffins
These cherry muffins are not only tasty, they’re very pretty too. Maraschino cherries inside, cherry glaze, and a whole cherry on top. Need we say more?
Serves:
Ingredients
For Muffins:
- ¾cupsugar
- ½cupmilk
- ½cupvegetable oil
- 1egg
- 1tspvanilla extract
- 2cupsall purpose flour
- 2tspbaking powder
- 16ozmaraschino cherriesjar, chopped, reserve juice for later use
- 2tbspcherry juicereserved
- Cooking spray
- 12wholemaraschino cherries
For Glaze:
- 1cuppowdered sugar
- 1tbspbuttermelted
- 1½tbspcherry juicereserved
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Coat a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray.
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Place the sugar, milk, vegetable oil, egg and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Whisk to combine.
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Add the flour and baking powder, then stir until just combined.
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Add the cherries and cherry juice to the bowl, then stir gently until well-mixed.
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Spoon the batter evenly into the muffin tins.
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Bake for 12 to 14 minutes or until edges are just browned. Cool the muffins completely before adding the glaze.
Glaze:
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Whisk together the powdered sugar, butter and cherry juice until smooth. If you’d like a thinner glaze, add more cherry juice, 1 teaspoon at a time.
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If you prefer a thicker glaze, add more powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is reached.
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Spoon 2 teaspoons of glaze over each muffin then immediately top each muffin with a cherry. Let the glaze harden, then serve.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 352.55kcal
- Fat:Â 12.50g
- Saturated Fat:Â 1.65g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.11g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 8.01g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 2.18g
- Carbohydrates:Â 58.07g
- Fiber:Â 1.94g
- Sugar:Â 40.12g
- Protein:Â 3.03g
- Cholesterol:Â 16.89mg
- Sodium:Â 73.93mg
- Calcium:Â 97.06mg
- Potassium:Â 52.44mg
- Iron:Â 1.32mg
- Vitamin A: 19.36µg
- Vitamin C:Â 1.21mg
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