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Sour Cherry Muffins

A community recipe by Edda

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Introduction

Golden muffins with a ruby-red filling of sweet redcurrant jelly and sourish cherries

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Ingredients

Serves: 12

Metric U.S.

90 grams butter (melted)
375 grams self-raising flour (sifted)
55 grams ground almonds (or hazelnuts)
150 grams caster sugar
1 egg
250 millilitres milk
125 millilitres redcurrant jelly (approximately, use cherry jelly if you can find it - I couldn't)
12 cherries (sour cherries, in their own juice or in light syrup, well-drained)

3 ounces butter (melted)
13 ounces self-rising flour (sifted)
2 ounces almond meal (or hazelnuts)
5 ounces superfine sugar
1 egg
8⅘ fluid ounces milk
4⅖ fluid ounces redcurrant jelly (approximately, use cherry jelly if you can find it - I couldn't)
12 cherries (sour cherries, in their own juice or in light syrup, well-drained)

Method

Sour Cherry Muffins is a community recipe submitted by Edda and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

Combine butter, flour, nuts (I like almonds because the finished result gives a nicer contrast with the red color of the jelly and cherries), sugar, egg and milk in a large bowl and stir with a metal spoon until just combined.

Half-fill each hole in your (greased) muffin pan and make a little well in the centre of each muffin.

Spoon 1-2 teaspoons of jam into each well, sit a cherry on top.

Top with remaining muffin mixture.

Bake in a moderately hot oven for 25 minutes or thereabouts (190-200 degrees Celsius). Carefully turn out onto a wire rack, THE JAM IS HOT! Resist temptation to have one right away... I love'em!

Half-fill each hole in your (greased) muffin pan and make a little well in the centre of each muffin.

Spoon 1-2 teaspoons of jam into each well, sit a cherry on top.

Top with remaining muffin mixture.

Bake in a moderately hot oven for 25 minutes or thereabouts (190-200 degrees Celsius). Carefully turn out onto a wire rack, THE JAM IS HOT! Resist temptation to have one right away... I love'em!