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This Christmas Muffin recipes is full of all kinds of amazing holiday flavors including egg nog, cranberry and white chocolate!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
“It tastes like Christmas.” This was Tessa’s response after her first bite of this muffin recipes! I took that as a good sign.
The holiday season has officially begun because I have bought my first carton of eggnog. I love eggnog and one of my favorite holiday treats to make with it is a scone made with eggnog, craisinets and white chocolate chips.
If you are not an eggnog fan you will still love these muffins, there is not a strong eggnog flavor.
The combination of eggnog, cranberries, cinnamon and white chocolate is perfect and, like Tessa said, tastes like Christmas! The muffin is topped with a crunchy cinnamon streusel topping that gives the muffin some extra sweetness and goodness. If you are a nut lover add some chopped pecans into the topping.
Ingredients Needed
- All Purpose Flour
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Eggnog
- Butter
- Almond Extract
- Cranberries
- White Chocolate Chips
- Ground Cinnamon
- Pecans, optional
How to Make Christmas Muffins
- Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
- Combine sugar, eggs, eggnog, melted butter and almond extract in a separate bowl and stir until well combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir until just incorporated, do not overmix.
- Chop the cranberries and toss them in sugar.
- Fold cranberries and white chocolate chips into muffin batter.
- Fill lined muffin tin 2/3 full.
- Combine sugar, flour, and cinnamon to a small bowl.
- Cut butter into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter or a fork until a coarse, crumbly mixture forms. Add nuts if desired.
- Sprinkle the mixture on top of the muffin batter
- Bake at 400 degrees F until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 18-22 minutes.
- Let cool in the pan for 5-10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool completely
Tips from leigh Anne
- Don’t over mix the batter. Stir just until all the ingredients are incorporated.
- After chopping your cranberries coat them with a little sugar.
- Gently fold the cranberries into the batter, they will bleed a bit into the batter and that is o.k.
- Use a 1/3 cup measure or scoop to measure out your batter. It makes the perfect size muffin and the equal size helps the muffins to bake evenly.
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Christmas Muffin Recipe
Ingredients
- 2¼ cups flour
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup plus 2 tbsp. granulated sugar divided
- 2 large eggs
- ¾ cup eggnog
- 6 Tbsp. butter melted
- 1 tsp. almond extract
- 1½ cups coarsely chopped cranberries
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Streusel Topping:
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp. ground cinnamon
- 4 Tbsp. unsalted butter slightly softened
- ½ cup chopped pecans optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400° F
- Line 14-16 muffin cups with paper liners
- In a bowl, add together the flour, baking powder and salt and stir to combine
- In a large bowl, add together 1 cup of sugar, eggs, eggnog, melted butter and almond extract
- Stir until well combined
- Add in the dry ingredients just until incorporated
- Do not over mix
- Chop the cranberries
- I used my mini food processor and just pulsed a few times
- Toss the chopped cranberries with the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar, and fold into the batter along with the white chocolate chips
- Fill the prepared muffin liners 2/3 full
Streusel topping:
- Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon and butter
- Cut the butter into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter or a fork until a coarse, crumbly mixture forms
- Add nuts if using
- Sprinkle the mixture on top of the muffin batter
- Bake for about 18-22 minutes, or a until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean
- Let cool in the pan for 5-10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely
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Colleen says
I can’t wait to make these, they sound delicious! Love the addition of the white chocolate chips…everything tastes better with chocolate 🙂
Leigh Anne@Your Homebased Momle says
Dawn,
My friend Sherra couldn’t believe I liked it either because of the texture but I do. I usually dilute it with a bit of 7up. I have had eggnog steamers at Starbucks – yum! My favorite though is the pumpkin spice creme.(hot) So good!!
Dawn says
These look delicious!! Leigh Anne, I love eggnog but I can’t believe you like it. It seems like one of those texture things. I know you aren’t a coffee drinker, but every year I look forward to Starbuck’s for lowfat eggnog lattes. Yum!
Diana @ frontyardfoodie says
I want to taste Christmas!!! I mostly want to taste those though. haha
FoodontheTable says
I can’t wait to try these! I made carrot & raisin muffins yesterday and was just thinking of what type of muffins to make for holiday gifts.