Halloween Prune-Filled Donut Muffins
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Halloweeners! Our time is nigh... Are you starting with your Halloween decorating/baking yet? I find myself skipping a year when it comes to the Halloween craze. Last year I really wasn't feeling Halloween, but this year... I'm going all out! Halloween-themed dinner parties, a costumed ball I'm attending and Halloween sweets! Watching them bake in the oven was like witnessing a scientific experiment. The tender muffin-batter began to burst open like a lava. A few seconds later... the lava began! The purple prune filling began to explode within the center of the muffins and the jam ran down the tops. So funny! Rating: this is one of my favorite muffin recipes, 5- out of 5.
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Jam Doughnut Muffins: Nigella Lawson - How To Be A Domestic Goddess
Ingredients:
- 1 1/3 cups self-rising cake flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- ½ cup milk
- 7 tablespoons corn or vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 12 teaspoons strawberry jam
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- With a fork, beat together the milk, oil, egg and vanilla extract. Stir this into the flour and 1/3 cup sugar to combine: the lumps don't matter and if you overbeat the muffins will be tough. Spoon the mixture into each muffin cup so that it's just under a third full. Then with a teaspoon add a dollup of strawberry jam, then top with more muffin mix so that the cases are just about full.
- Put them in the preheated oven and bake for about 20 minutes or until the tops feel springy and resistant and the muffins have puffed up into little toadstools.
- Meanwhile, melt the butter slowly in a thick-bottomed pan, and lay the remaining sugar (& cinnamon) out in a wide, shallow bowl. As soon as the muffins are ready, remove them from their cups, dip them in the butter, and roll them in the sugar. Eat warm.
The jam was a little bit more expensive than all the other French jams,
but it was seriously the best jam I've ever tasted! So I stocked up and
brought a couple of jars home with me. This is my last jar :(
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If you ever happen to be in Provence, you MUST try this jam!
(and send ME another jar)
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Instagram capture of my muffin.
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