I'm excited to be joining the #MuffinMonday bakers this month, it's been a while! I keep a board on Pinterest full of muffin recipes to try, but I kept coming back to this one from Taste of Home.
I used my cookie scoop to portion out the dough, it makes it so easy. Since I omitted the nuts due to allergies and filled the tins more than the recipe stated, I got 30 muffins.
I thinned out my glaze a bit more with the cherry juice, which gave them a gorgeous pink color.
Using the mini chips really lets everything get evenly distributed throughout the muffin. One of my favorite treats is a chocolate covered cherry, and these muffins definitely remind me of those.
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Cherry Chip Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 (10-ounce) jar red maraschino cherries
- 3/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans (omitted)
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375º.
- In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, whisk the egg, milk and oil; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
- Drain cherries, reserved 2 tablespoons of juice for glaze (discard remaining juice or save for another use). Chop cherries; fold into the batter with chocolate chips.
- Spoon the batter by tablespoonfuls into greased or paper-lined heart-shaped or miniature muffin cups.
- Bake at 375' for 10-13 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks.
- Combine confectioners' sugar and reserved cherry juice to make a thin glaze; drizzle over muffins.
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These would be adorable in heart shaped muffin cups for Valentine's Day. I think I will surprise my family with them.
ReplyDeleteEver year for her birthday I buy my sister chocolate covered cherries because they are her favorite candy. I need to make her your mini muffins!
ReplyDeleteThese have a gorgeous Valentine's Day look to them. And I am on a cherry kick lately so you know I would be nuts for these.
ReplyDeleteI love these!! My family would eat these up. Chocolate covered cherries are a favorite of mine too. :)
ReplyDeleteThese are soooo pretty! I bet they would be adorable baked in a heart shaped muffin tin!
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