Cranberry Orange Muffins
Sweet tart cranberries combined with zesty orange make these muffins irresistible. It helps that the glaze has Grand Marnier in it!
It’s SRC reveal day! YIPEE! I can’t wait. It’s been the LONGEST MONTH EVAH! At least it feels like that. I spent tons on my assignee’s blog. She has a TON of information, posts and some mighty tasty recipes.
*waves to Melissa*
I was assigned BKLYN Locavore. By day, Melissa is a marketing professional and by night she’s an advocate for the local food movement. She belongs to two local food coops; Park Slope Food Coop and Bay Ridge Food Co-op . She’s also a recipe developer, food blogger, and food enthusiast. And I totally agree with the organic being a gimmick. I’d rather pay extra for locally grown produce than pay for some label on a package I have know idea where it came from.
I found many inspiring recipes to try. Those may pop up later on my blog, with proper credit of course! In all these blogs I visit, I can always find many inspiring recipes. So, after looking through the whole blog, and since it’s the holiday season, I latched onto the Maple Cranberry Cupcakes. They sound DELISH don’t they?
For those that don’t know, SRC (Secret Recipe Club) is a group of extremely talented bloggers, chefs, and food-thousiasts like myself. I sign up and get assigned a fellow blogger once a once. I find and recreate a recipe from that blog and write not only about the recipe but the blogger, too. All of our posts go live on the same day celebrating the group participating that month. I’m not explaining it all that well. So, you’d better head on over to their website and read about it yourself. It’s awesome and I’ve found some really wonderful blogs to follow and be inspired by.
But, back to Melissa and her Maple Cranberry Cupcakes. Since S and I try to follow a low fat diet, I just had to morph these a bit. And as I’m writing this, I realize that I forgot the fresh cranberries. Oh well! I”ll have to make this into a bread later for the co-workers maybe? *shrugs*
Cranberry Orange Muffins with Maple Grand Marnier Glaze
Sweet tart cranberries combined with zesty orange make these muffins irresistible. It helps that the glaze has Grand Marnier in it!
Ingredients
For the muffins:
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 2/3 cup whole berry cranberry sauce
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3 whole egg whites
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon orange zest, grated
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1 cup cranberries, fresh or frozen
For maple glaze:
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Combine first seven ingredients (whole wheat pastry flour through allspice) in a large mixing bowl.
- Place the cranberries in the bowl of a food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the cranberry sauce with the sugars until well blended. Add the eggs, vanilla extract, and orange zest, stirring well after each addition.
- Add the dry ingredients and stir until just blended.
- Fold cranberries into the batter.
- Place 18 cupcake liners in a muffin tin and lightly spritz with cooking spray.
- Fill 2/3 full with batter.
- Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from heat and cool 5 minutes, then remove from pan and cool completely in a wire rack.
- While the cupcakes are cooling, combine the Grand Marnier, maple syrup, vanilla extract and powdered sugar in a small mixing bowl. Stir until well blended.
- Top muffins with the glaze.
Fabulous festive holiday flavours – lovely SRC pick this month!
Now THAT's a creative muffin, and perfect for the holidays! love all about it…
great choice for your Reveal Day!
Yum! LOVE the grand marnier glaze. Reading my blog, I'm sure you noticed I'm a bit of a boozy fan too. Why didn't I think of that?! And love that we both did cranberry recipes 🙂
Ooh, these sound so delicious! Great pick this month 🙂
Muffins are always great to have along….and then with a glaze nothing could be better! 🙂
Maple Grand Marnier Glaze?! sounds great! hopefully it'll help take the edge of monday mornings ^_^
Great pick for autumn! Especially love the the grand marnier maple glaze!
That glaze…. holy deliciousness! These sound really yummy!
Perfect src pick for this time of year~ Cranberry orange muffins scream Thanksgiving~ Lynn @ Turnips 2 Tangerines~ Happy Thanksgiving~
What an amazing recipe. The flavors are out of this world. Great SRC pick this month!