Christmas muffins - Real Recipes from Mums

Your friends and family will love these cute Christmas muffins!

Ingredients (makes 12 )

2 1/2 cups self raising flour, sifted
100 grams butter, chopped
1 cup caster sugar
1 1/4 cups buttermilk
1 egg, beaten
1 cup mixed glace fruit, chopped coarsely
250 grams prepared white icing
2 Tbsp apricot jam, warmed, strained
sifted icing sugar, to decorate

Method

Preheat oven to 200 C. Line muffin tin with muffin cases.
Sift flour into bowl; rub in butter. Gently stir in caster sugar, buttermilk and egg; then mixed glace fruit.
Spoon mixture into muffin cases. Bake for about 20 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
Roll prepared white icing out to desired thickness; cut out stars.
Brush tops of muffins with warmed apricot jam; top with stars; then dust with icing sugar.

Notes

Extra special and delicious Christmas muffins. Do not overwork the muffin mixture. Work quickly with the icing mixture as it will get sticky quickly. Add colour to icing mixture for coloured stars if you want a pop of colour.

36 Comments

- - youngoldlady said
  - 03 Dec 2016
    7:02 pm
Going to love making these, think different colours to be colourful.

- - Melissa89 said
  - 31 Jul 2016
    1:33 am
How sweet!

- - serotonin said
  - 30 Apr 2016
    11:59 pm
Mmm these look very yummy! Love the presentation too!

- - BellaB said
  - 29 Feb 2016
    6:51 pm
I liked the icing idea – thanks.

- - rachelvk said
  - 23 Feb 2016
    8:23 pm
Putting this recipe on the Christmas baking list! They look gorgeous.

- - curlytops said
  - 06 Jan 2016
    10:26 pm
a really lovely idea to put on top of a muffin.

- - mom160421 said
  - 29 Nov 2015
    10:09 pm
These look so festive and I’ll bet they taste divine.

- - taynik46 said
  - 08 Nov 2015
    11:29 am
this is perfect, I just saw this in the “things you might be interested in” and instantly saw the perfect little christmas treat to make my daugher’s school teachers 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing Mom93821

- - mom112217 said
  - 27 Oct 2015
    8:45 am
These would be to share at work at Christmas,thanks.

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 31 Aug 2015
    5:36 pm
This is super!

- - mom152736 said
  - 21 Aug 2015
    4:18 pm
what a star !!

- - mom113055 said
  - 07 Jul 2015
    4:03 pm
it s super

- - mom113055 said
  - 26 Jun 2015
    4:57 pm
looking goog great

- - dannsbuild said
  - 15 Jun 2015
    7:59 pm
Christmas we like it in our home a lot!

- - neddie said
  - 03 Jun 2015
    10:57 pm
I must remember to get more creative at xmas rather than traditional cupcakes

- - am1979amanda said
  - 30 May 2015
    6:46 pm
Great for Xmas thanks for share

- - meljware said
  - 06 May 2015
    2:08 pm
These are so cute but yet very stunning all the same. Thanks for sharing!

- - GeoEllie said
  - 31 Jan 2015
    4:29 am
Love the cute stars on top, so festive

- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Jan 2015
    4:17 pm
these look so soft, fluffy and delicious! i like this recipe idea….i like it a lot…..lol
- mom93821 replied
  
  06 Jan 2015 , 9:28 pm
  Thank you! They are soft and fluffy and yummy! 🙂
- - kjgarner said
  - 31 Dec 2014
    8:45 am
Love the stars on top 🙂