Cranberry Sauce Muffins

Last week during my grocery shopping, I found loads of fresh cranberries in the market and I bought one packet because they were just so pretty and Christmacy . After coming home I was wondering how to use these cranberries and hence started my research and I found thousands of recipes online. So I decided to make Cranberry sauce as that seemed to be the most popular and I imagined this sauce could be used in place of Jam or on top of ice cream, cream cheese pie etc etc. And so when I finished making the sauce, I had a spoonful for tasting the end product and I don't know why, but all I could think of was how this sauce will taste inside a muffin. And so I decided to make Cranberry Sauce muffin. Of course I saved some sauce for my morning toast and remaining I used up for making muffin and OH MY GOD the most unique tasting, moist, yummylicious muffin I have ever tasted. I really really hope you like this.

Ingredients:

• Fresh Cranberries - 12 oz
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Water - 1/2 cup
• Orange Juice - 1/2 cup

Process:

• Wash the cranberries very well
• In a pan, add cranberries, water and orange juice and let it come to a complete boil
• Add sugar and mix well and let it cook on medium flame for 15 minutes. The sauce will be a little runny at this point
• Switch off gas and let it cool down completely and the consistency will become jammy.
• This sauce can be used in place of any Jam and also for toppings on ice cream/pies

• All Purpose Flour - 1 3/4 cup
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Unsalted butter, softened at room temperature - 1/4 cup
• Baking Powder - 1 tsp
• Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Cranberry Sauce - 2 cups
• Ground Cinnamon - 1/2 tsp
• Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
• Milk - 2 tbsp to 1/4 cup (if required)
• Eggs - 2
• Orange Zest - 1 tsp

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
• In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar, add the eggs, vanilla extract and Orange zest and whisk them together until combined
• Whisk in the cranberry sauce and mix well
• In a separate bowl , mix together baking powder, baking soda, salt , cinnamon and flour
• Sieve this dry ingredients into the cranberry sauce mixture and mix only till combined
• Add little milk at a time if required to get nice muffin batter consistency
• Using an ice cream scoop divide the batter evenly in the lined muffin tin and bake for 15-18 minutes
• Insert a tooth pick into the muffins to see if any batter sticks to the muffins. If it comes out clean, our muffins are completely cooked
• Let it cool down for 15 minutes and enjoy :). Hope you like it :)