As you know I love baking and trying new recipes. It is the one thing I do when I need to de-stress, or keep busy. I recently purchased a huge box of cherries as my family love them. I have to admit my favourite fruits are Summer fruits. As we were trying to get through this huge box. I decided to look for recipes to use them with. Which is where I found Summer Fruits Muffins. A bit misleading but have made two types of muffins.
Last week, C was on a college trip and she always takes a packed lunch. I thought I would make some cherry muffins to take with her.
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Cherry Muffins
These are so quick and easy to make and a perfect way to use up fresh fruit. Plus kids will love helping make these yummy treats.
Ingredients –
1 1/2 cups of Self Raising Four
3/4 cup of white sugar
1/3 cup of oil
1/3 cup of milk
1 large egg
vanilla essence
1 cup of pitted cherries cut in quarters
1 teaspoon of sugar to top the muffins if you wish
Directions –
- Pre-heat the oven to 200 and line your muffin tin with paper liners
- De stone and cut your cherries
- Mix the flour and sugar together in a large mixing bowl
- Add your oil, milk, egg and vanilla extract and mix together until all ingredients are mixed together. If a little too stiff you can add a tiny bit of milk to make it a less stiff
- Add your cherries and stir in gently
- Spoon the muffin batter into your paper liners at around 2/3 full
- Sprinkle with sugar if you wish
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. I baked mine for 10 minutes and then checked and turned the tray around. I then check at 5 minutes to make sure they do not over bake
As I already said I do love my Summer fruits and had a huge punnet of nectarines. On Sunday while trying to keep my mind occupied. I had a thought of could I use nectarines. So we made one batch of cherry muffins and then tried a batch of nectarines. I used 2 nectarines finely chopped, but next time may use 3.
They are just as nice and if honest am not sure which I prefer. Now I am thinking of what other fruits I can use. Do you have any suggestions?
another delight to share
know they will be delicious
These are lovely
I will have to make these so I can bring some to work for breakfast. Your recipe sounds delicious! Love the summer fruits idea.
They do taste amazing and they keep fresh as well
We love fruits muffins. This one looks really so delicious. I would love to try your recipe.
I hope you enjoy them
I do enjoy a muffin now and then but I’ve surprisingly never tried a cherry muffin. These look delicious!! Perfect recipe for the summer, I will try it out asap!
I do love cherries, so it was probably going to happen one day, both flavours taste great
These look like such delicious muffins! I love the idea of using seasonal fruit for muffins.
They both taste great and I do love summer fruits
They sound delicious, I love a pop of fruit in my muffins! Banana nut muffins in particular are my favorite. Thanks for sharing this!
I have not made banana nut muffins will have to try them next
I think I’ve only ever had blueberry muffins before, but I bet Cherrys or any summer fruit would be really nice. There’s nothing better than something seasonal x
I do love summer fruits and so far both have been great
I love how easy these are to make with the self-rising flour! They look totally delicious and perfect for summer!
Using self raising flour does make the recipe easier. So far both flavours have been a hit
This looks amazing. I would love to try this one out, I am growing all kinds of good stuff this year and am excited to use up my Summer fruits!
I do love summer fruits and home grown are even nicer
Oh man! I can’t wait to try this recipe this weekend. This is perfect for the summer.
They are so quick and easy and stay fresh as well
My kids are always craving snacks during the summer, and these muffins look like the perfect solution.
They will love these and they are so quick and easy to make
I’ve not made muffins in sooooo long. These look so yummy!!! I do like fresh cherries and they’re in season so got to give this a whirl soon.
They are yummy and taste great, now thinking what other summer fruits I can use
These look and sound delicious
They are very moreish
omg these cherry muffins look delicious and they seem so delicious and refreshing…I am doing the recipe for sure, thank you so so much
I hope you like them, they are a hit in my house
Gosh, they look delicious. The recipe looks nice and easy, too. Good idea to try fruit when it is inexpensive and abundant. I quite like trying to use overripe bananas in cakes, cookies and muffins. Much better than throwing them out when the family won’t eat them.
They are lovely and do keep lovely and moist for days. I love using bananas and never through them away when over ripe
These look really good. I love blueberry muffins but never tried these so need to!
I do love blueberry muffins, but as I had a lot of cherries and nectarines thought why not give them a try
I would never have thought of trying nectarines in muffins, but they sound delicious! Hope you got on okay at the clinic on Sunday
I had not thought of nectarines either, and after a discussion with my Dad who was a baker. We decided to give it a go, the next question was skin on or off so I tried with skin on and it is fine
Oh, yes. I love muffins with fruit in them. I make them seasonally, so I’m a big fan of this!
Nothing nicer than seasonal fruit, but my favourite is summer fruit