Basic Almond Muffins Recipe
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We love making muffins and one of our favourite flavours is almond. We make these basic almond muffins all the time and they are so easy to vary using whatever else we have in the cupboards at the time.
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How do you make almond muffins?
A lot of people make almond flour muffins but we simply use our typical muffin mix with some ground almonds and almond essence added before topping with flaked almonds.
Can you vary this recipe?
This almond muffins recipe is so simple to vary to add other flavours. You could add a sprinkle of poppy seeds to create almond poppy seed muffins, add dried cherries to make cherry almond muffins or blueberries for delicious almond blueberry muffins. Those are ones we make often!
You could even add some cocoa powder in place of some of the flour to make chocolate almond muffins or add some lemon zest and lemon juice instead of the almond extract to make lovely, light lemon almond muffins.
But, these muffins are delicious just as they are. light and fluffy and full of that glorious almond flavour. They are perfect for breakfast, an after school snack or just a sweet treat whenever we need one. Plus, they taste quite healthy too!
If you’re looking for other recipes to bake here’s our Chocolate Chip Muffins, Banana Blueberry Fairy Cakes, Banana Passionfruit Muffins and our Chocolate Butterfly Cakes. You can see all our recipes to date here.
What equipment do you need to make these basic muffins?
You will no doubt have most of the equipment you need for this recipe at home already but, in case it helps, here are the things we use to bake these cakes at home:
- A 12 hole muffin tin
- Paper cake cases
- A mixing bowl
- Scales
- A wooden spoon
- Measuring spoons
- A wire rack
These are pretty much staples for baking in any home kitchen and once you have them you won’t need to replace them often.
Here’s our Almond Muffins recipe:
Makes: 20 cakes
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 120ml vegetable oil
- 250ml semi skimmed milk
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 250g caster sugar
- 300g self raising flour
- 100g ground almonds
- flaked almonds
Decoration
- Icing sugar
Recipe
- Preheat oven 180C/Gas 6
- Line muffin trays with paper cases. You can either use two muffin tins or bake a dozen muffins before doing the rest.
- Mix the wet ingredients in a large mixing bowl adding all the dry ingredients apart from the flaked almonds. Mix well.
- Divide the mixture between the muffin cases and top with a sprinkle of flaked almonds
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes until risen and golden brown on top.
- Leave to cool on a wire rack.
- When completely cool, add some water to the icing sugar and stir until you have a nice, icing consistency and drizzle over the muffins.
- Leave to set and enjoy.
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Basic Almond Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 120 ml vegetable oil
- 250 ml semi skimmed milk
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 250 g caster sugar
- 300 g self raising flour
- 100 g ground almonds
- flaked almonds
Decoration
- Icing sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven 180C/Gas 6
- Line muffin trays with paper cases. You can either use two muffin tins or bake a dozen muffins before doing the rest.
- Mix the wet ingredients in a large mixing bowl adding all the dry ingredients apart from the flaked almonds. Mix well.
- Divide the mixture between the muffin cases and top with a sprinkle of flaked almonds
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes until risen and golden brown on top.
- Leave to cool on a wire rack.
- When completely cool, add some water to the icing sugar and stir until you have a nice, icing consistency and drizzle over the muffins.
*Note: Nutritional information is estimated, based on publicly available data. Nutrient values may vary from those published.