Sparkling Winter Morning Glory Muffins
Makes 16-18 muffins
Equipment
- 2 Muffin tins (if you only have one tin that’s ok! you will just need to do two batches).
- Muffin tin liners
- Small Pan
- Whisk
- Medium bowl
- Large Bowl
- Small Bowl
Ingredients
- 1 stick 4oz unsalted butter
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
- 1 cup shredded parsnips about 1 medium peeled parsnip
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- ⅛ tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- ½ cup toasted chopped pecans
- 1 cup fresh cranberries*
Topping
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 large orange zested
- 4 Tbsp unsalted butter melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line two muffin tins with liners (if you only have one tin that’s ok! you will just need to do two batches).
- In a small pan over medium low heat, add butter and melt.
- Whisk butter continuously until the butter has browned. Keep an eye on it as this can happen quick!
- Once the butter is brown, immediately transfer to a medium bowl. Let cool 5 minutes.
- Add brown sugar and whisk until incorporated.
- Add in eggs and whisk until homogenous. (work quick here as the butter may be still warm and we don’t want to cook the eggs!)
- Whisk in applesauce, buttermilk and vanilla. Stir in parsnips. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves and salt.
- Add the wet into the dry and mix until just moistened. It’s ok if there are a few clumps. Don’t over mix 🙂
- Fold in coconut, pecans, and cranberries.
- Fill muffin tin with batter about 2/3 of the way up.
- Bake muffins for 20-25 minutes until muffins are puffed, golden, and a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffin comes out clean (a few moist crumbs are ok!).
- While muffins bake, mix orange zest and sugar together in a small bowl.
- Let muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
- Dip the tops of the muffins in the melted butter and then into the orange sugar. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
*You can also substitute dried cranberries here if you aren’t a fan of the tartness of fresh cranberries. I like using the fresh because of the contrast they give to all the other sweet components in the muffin. But the dried would be equally as good!
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