Best Christmas Muffins Recipes

CHRISTMAS MORNING CASSEROLE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray 12 muffin cups with cooking spray.
• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir sausage in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and transfer sausage to prepared muffin cups.
• Mix half-and-half, baking mix, eggs, salt, and black pepper together in a bowl; pour over sausage. Top each muffin with Cheddar cheese.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cooked through and cheese is melted, about 25 minutes.

MERRY CHRISTMAS MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first five ingredients. In a small bowl, beat eggs, oil and vanilla; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in carrots, apple, coconut, fruit and raisins. Fill 16 paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. For frosting, combine butter, cream cheese, sugar, juice and vanilla in a bowl; beat until smooth and creamy. Spread over muffins. Sprinkle with cherries.

CHRISTMAS MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees.
• Line 15 standard muffin cups with cupcake liners, or grease them.
• In a large bowl, mix together the flour(s), oats, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, applesauce, sugar, brown sugar, canola or vegetable oil, egg, and vanilla extract. Mix in the cranberries, apple, and zucchini.
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, and whisk together just until incorporated.
• Divide between 15 or so muffin cups - approximately a scant 1/2 cup each.
• Bake at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes, or until the tops spring back when touched.
• Line the counter with a couple of paper towels, and place a wire rack on top. Once the muffins are cool enough to touch, move them to a wire rack.
• Allow the muffins to cool to room temperature, or close - about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, mix together the glaze. Simply whisk the powdered sugar, vanilla, orange zest, milk and orange juice together until it's glaze consistency.
• Drizzle the glaze over the top of the muffins. If desired, top with sprinkles while the glaze is still wet (c'mon! It's Christmas! Go for it!)

CHRISTMAS CHERRY CHOCOLATE MINI-MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, beat 1/4 cup butter and the cream cheese with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, 1/4 cup confectioner's sugar, 2 tablespoons cocoa and the vanilla.
• Place mini foil or paper baking cups, if desired, in each of 24 mini-muffin cups. (If not using baking cups, grease the muffin pan cups.) Divide dough into 24 equal pieces. Press each piece in bottom and up side of muffin cup. In small bowl, mix all fill ingredients. Spoon about 2 teaspoons filling into each cup.
• Bake 16-19 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when filling is touched lightly. Do not overcook! Cool 1 hour; loosen from cups with tip of knife. Remove from pan to wire rack.
• In small bowl, mix 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar and the cherry juice until smooth and spreadable. Drizzle glaze over cookies; sprinkle with a few additional chopped cherries.

CHRISTMAS MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line a 12-hole muffin tray with paper muffin cases.
• Melt the butter in the microwave or a small pan over a low heat, then set aside to cool for 10 mins. Meanwhile, mix the flour, bicarb, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl with a pinch of salt.
• Add the yogurt, vanilla and eggs to the cooled butter and mix well. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients along with the orange zest, chocolate and dried cranberries. Mix well until there are no pockets of flour.
• Divide the mixture evenly between the paper cases, then bake for 30 mins until risen and golden. Check they're cooked by inserting a cocktail stick into the centre of one of the muffins (choose one in the centre of the tray). If any wet cake batter clings to the skewer, return to the oven for 5 mins.
• Remove the muffins from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for at least 10 mins. Meanwhile, mix the icing sugar with enough of the orange juice to make a loose icing. Brush the orange glaze over each muffin, then sprinkle with a little pearl sugar, if using. Leave to cool before eating. Will keep in an airtight container for up to five days, or frozen for up to two months.

CHRISTMAS QUINOA MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Add cane sugar to chopped cranberries ( I find chopping frozen cranberries much easier).
• Mix first 6 dry ingredients together.
• In a separate bowl whisk remaining wet ingredients (yogurt, milk, egg, vanilla and oil) together.
• Fold wet ingredients into dry until just combined. Do not overmix.
• Fold in sugared cranberries and pumpkin seeds
• Line muffin tins with parchment cups or grease with oil of choice. I used parchment.
• Use regular size ice cream scoop to fill muffin cups.
• Bake for 30 -40 minutes until tops are brown and toothpick comes out clean. Toothpick will come out clean after 20 minutes but its worth waiting until muffins actually brown on top for better texture.
• Notes: Batter is fairly dense. Adjust with milk to your liking. Muffins are minimally sweet so adjust sugar as well. I love a just slightly sweet muffin and you can't beat fresh cranberries. Enjoy!
• As with all healthier muffins these stay/store best in freezer in a ziploc freezer bag once they've completely cooled. Perfect defrosted in microwave at power level 3 for 1 min (flipping it at 30 seconds).

CHRISTMAS CRANBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• 1. In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Using a pastry blender, cut butter into dry ingredients until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in cranberries, nuts and orange zest.
• 2. Divide mix into 2 resealable plastic bags. Store in refrigerator. Give with baking instructions.
• 3. TO BAKE: In a medium bowl, combine 1 c sour cream and 1 bag muffin mix (2 1/2 cups) just until moistened. Fill paper-lined muffin cups full of batter. Sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake in a 400 degree oven 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean and tops are golden brown.

CARROT CAKE - FRUITED CARROT LOAF OR CHRISTMAS MUFFINS

Steps:

• In bowl: beat eggs until smooth and creamy, add sugar, oil, milk, vanilla and beat well.
• In large bowl combine and whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
• Make well in dry ingredients, add the egg mixture mixing until thoroughly combined.
• Stir in grated carrots, coconut, raisins and pecans.
• Pour into two greased loaf pans ( approximately 9 x 5 and preferably lined) baking in a 350 oven 60 - 70 minute. (ovens vary).
• Remove from oven, place on wire rack until cooled completely.
• Remove from pan, wrap in foil, refrigerate overnight before slicing.

CHRISTMAS CRANBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Sprinkle berries with sugar. Mix dry ingredients in bowl and make a well in the middle. Combine peel, juice and butter. Add this to dry ingredients. Stir till moist. Fold in cranberries and nuts. Bake 375 oven for 15-20 minutes.

CHRISTMAS MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 In a mixing bowl stir together flour, baking powder, nutmeg and 1/2 tsp salt. set aside. In mixer cream together 1/2 cup sugar, butter, and egg. Add flour mixture and milk alternately to cream mixture, beating well after each addition. Fill 12(ish) greased muffin tins(use cupcake papers)2/3 full. Bake 20-25 minutes. Combine 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon. Dip hot muffins in melted butter and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.

CHRISTMAS MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Place 12 muffin cases in a muffin tin and set aside.
• Place the flour, butter, sugar, eggs, baking powder, spices into a bowl and beat until creamy.
• Fold in the raisins, peel and diced cherries and then the juice until combined.
• Roll out the marzipan into a sheet 0.5cm thick and cut into 24 small circles.
• Spoon half the mixture into the muffin cases, only half filling each.
• Lay a marzipan circle onto each cake, then fill up the cases with the rest of the mixture.
• Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean but the muffins are still springy to the touch. Leave to cool.
• When cool, spread each muffin with ginger jam and place a marzipan circle on top. Use a dab of jam to decorate with ginger and cherries.