These got good reviews by some friends who happened to be over, and I thought they were pretty good too. Try them out if you are tired of the same old blueberry muffins!
Pomegranate Muffins
adapted from Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook
makes one dozen
Ingredients:
1 stick unsalted butter, melted
2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 or 1 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds and juice
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup milk
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375F. Spray or grease your muffin tin, set aside. In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and set aside.
In another medium bowl, beat melted butter and sugar vigorously until light and fluffy. Use an electric mixer if you have one. Add the eggs one at a time and beat until well combined, then mix in the vanilla.
Now add the flour mixture to the egg and butter mixture, gently mixing just until combined and then slowly add milk (don't over mix). Fold in the pomegranate seeds and juice.
Divide batter evenly between muffin tin cups, lined with paper cups if you prefer.
Bake for about 30 minutes or until muffins are a light golden brown. Let cool for about ten minutes.
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3 comments:
Beth, I'm curious about two things: 1) Do the pomegranate seeds lend any crunch to the muffin? and 2) how many pomegranates did it take to get enough seeds?
Gable and I made your pomegranate muffins this morning. She loved helping me pick the seeds out of the pomegranate. We decided they looked like rubies. I baked the muffins for 25 minutes, which was just a tad too long in our oven. They are a little brown on the bottoms,but still yummy! We are having some for a snack right now!
Julie- The seeds do lend a crunch. It's an interesting take on a muffin, worth trying at least once. I only used one pomegranate. If you end up with a juicy once, i would recommend trying to get as much of the juice as you can into the recipe.
Jennifer- I am so glad that you and Gable had fun making these! Sometimes I think my oven may run a little lower on the heat than the dial is set to, so one of these days i will have to get an oven thermometer to put inside. Also- we got your Christmas card in the mail yesterday- such cute pictures!
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