morning goodness

I've found two muffin recipes recently that have both turned out delightful. i got 3 cooking magazine subscriptions for christmas- rachel ray, cooking light, and everyday food (martha stewart). i'm really excited about them!

Orange Cranberry Wheat Germ Muffins

1 1/2 c flour
1/2 c raw what germ
1/2 c sweetened dried cranberries
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
3/4 c packed brown sugar
1/4 c canola oil
1 tsp grated orange rind
1/2 c fresh orange juice
2 eggs

1. preheat oven to 375
2. combing flour and next 7 ingredients (through nutmeg) in large bowl, stir with a whisk.
3. combine brown sugar, oil, rind, juice and eggs. stir with a whisk. add egg mixture to flour mixture, stir just until combined. spoon batter into 12 muffin cups either sprayed with cooking spray or lined with muffin liners. sprinkle tops with brown sugar
4. bake at 375 for 17 minutes.


Jumbo Coffee Cake Muffins
struesel:
1 c packed brwn sugar
1 c flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c cold butter, cutinto small pieces

muffin:
1/2 c butter room temp
1 3/4 c flour
2 tsp baking p owder
1 tsp baking soda
1 c sour cream
1 c sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs


1. make streusel: in med bowl sitr together brn sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt. with a pastry cutter cut in butter until mixture resembles large coarse crumbs. refrigerate until ready to use
2. muffins: preheat oven to 350. in small bowl whisk together flour, baking powder and baking soda. set aside.
3. using an eletaric mixer, beat together butter, sour cream, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. beat in eggs one at a time until well combined. beat in flour mix just until combined.
4. divide half the batter among muffins cups- as in, only fill the cups half way- (i used a 12 cup muffin tin with liners. however there was too much dough, so really it could make 2 tins of 6 jumbo muffins or maybe fill up 1 12 muffin cup tin and then part of another), top with half the streusel. cover with the remaining batter, top with remaining streusel. bake until toothpick comes out clean 25-30 minutes.

i had left over streusel so i made an apple crisp with the leftovers.

these were both really yummy and we had them for breakfast the whole week!