Best Cranberry Walnut Muffins (With Orange Glaze!) -

Best Cranberry Walnut Muffins (With Orange Glaze!)

These amazingly flavorful cranberry walnut muffins are bursting with bright tart cranberries and the nutty flavor of walnuts! A drizzle with orange glaze finishes these perfect holiday muffins.

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Prep Time 8

Cook Time 20

Total Time 1 10

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Servings servings

Calories 300 kcal

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1 tsp almond extract
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil
3/4 cup orange juice
1/2 cup walnuts,
1 cup whole cranberries

Orange Glaze

1 cup powdered sugar
3 tbsp orange juice

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350. Spray grease your muffin tin or line the muffin tin with paper liners.
In a medium-sized mixing bowl, measure in flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, and salt and mix together until combined.
In a separate bowl whisk together eggs, then add oil, orange juice, and almond extract. Mix together until totally combined.
Slowly add dry ingredients to the wet ingredient bowl. Mix together until combined. Avoid over-mixing.
After the batter is fully incorporated, fold in cranberries and chopped walnuts.
Scoop muffin batter into muffin tin filling about 3/4 full.
Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes.
While the muffins are baking make the glaze by whisking together powdered sugar and orange juice.
Once muffins are baked and cooled to the point where they can be handled, dip or drizzle glaze on each muffin top.

Notes

Avoid over-mixing muffin batter. Over-mixing can cause the muffins to be tough and not as moist. Skip the mixer and opt to hand mix your muffins. Unlike cakes, muffins are OK to have a few lumps in the batter.
If fresh cranberries are unavailable you can substitute them with dried cranberries. This will produce a slightly different result, but you will still get a lovely cranberry flavor.
Only fill the muffin tin 3/4 full. This leaves room for them to have a gentle rise without spilling too far over the muffin tin.
Each oven will bake slightly differently. To see if your muffins are done, look for a light golden edge and the top of the muffin will spring back after touching. You can also insert a toothpick. If it comes out clean, the muffins are finished baking.
Cool muffins only enough to handle before applying the glaze. Warm muffins will soak in more glaze!
Use spray oil to grease muffin tins or line them with paper muffin liners. This is a personal preference and the choice is yours!

Nutrition

Calories: 300kcal