A Recipe For Cherry Almond Muffins Made With Canned Pie Filling Sort Of

ALMOND CHERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425F/220C. Grease 12 muffin cups or line with muffin liners.
• In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add sugar and mix to combine.
• In a medium bowl, mix egg with yogurt, oil, vanilla, and almond extract. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and fold with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula just until combined. Do not over mix. The batter should be quite thick and lumpy. Fold in almonds and cherries gently to prevent staining.
• Divide the mixture between the muffin cups, filling almost fully to the top. Sprinkle with sliced almonds if desired. Bake for 3 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 375F/190C. Continue to bake for an additional 12-17 minutes for standard muffins, or an additional 22-27 minutes for jumbo muffins. They are ready when a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. If they start to brown too much, cover them loosely with aluminum foil. Cool for 10 minutes, then move to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Muffins are best the same day they are made, but can be kept at room temperature in an airtight container for an additional 1-2 days. Muffins can also be frozen for up to 2 months.

A RECIPE FOR CHERRY ALMOND MUFFINS MADE WITH CANNED PIE FILLING ... SORT OF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly butter muffin tins or line with muffin liners.
• Cream the butter, eggs and sugar together with a mixer. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl and set aside. Add almond extract to the milk. Alternately add flour mixture and milk mixture to butter mixture, mixing to combine {do not over mix!}. Fold in cherries. Fill muffin tins 2/3 full {I always use a 3 tablespoon cookie scoop to make sure I get the exact amount of batter into each cavity}.
• In a small bowl, using your fingers, cut the butter into the other topping ingredients. Pour roughly a tablespoon of the crumb mix loosely over each muffin.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. This recipe makes 16 muffins.

CHERRY COBBLER MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a 12 cup muffin pan with paper baking cups.
• Stir together the baking mix, white sugar, egg, and milk in a bowl just until combined. Stir in 1/2 of the cherry pie filling. Fill the lined muffin cups 2/3 full. Top each muffin with 3 cherries from the remaining cherry pie filling.
• Mix flour, brown sugar, melted butter, and cinnamon together in a small bowl with a fork until crumbly. Sprinkle evenly over unbaked muffins.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 22 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

FRESH CHERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a muffin tin with paper liners.
• Mix flour, 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
• Whisk oil, milk, egg, and almond extract together in a small bowl. Pour into flour mixture; stir gently until incorporated. Fold cherries into the batter.
• Spoon batter into the muffin cups, filling each 2/3 of the way full. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon sugar on top.
• Bake muffins in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

CHERRY ALMOND MUFFINS

Steps:

• Place dry ingredients into a bowl and mix together.
• In another bowl, mix the wet ingredients together and stir into the flour mixture.
• Mix just until all dry ingredients are incorporated.
• Fold in the cherry filling and almonds.
• Spoon into 12 greased muffin cups.
• Bake at 350° for 20 minutes until golden brown.
• Note: I would imagine that any fruit pie filling would work very well with this recipe.

VERY CHERRY ALMOND MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl combine all topping ingredients except almonds. Using a pastry blender or 2 forks, combine ingredients to a course consistency. Once combined, fold in the almonds.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 (12-cup) muffin tins with paper liners for 18 muffins.
• In a large bowl using an electric mixer, combine cake mix, eggs, oil, extract and preserves. Batter will be somewhat lumpy.
• Use an ice cream scoop to evenly fill each muffin pan with the batter. Sprinkle tops of muffins with 2 teaspoons of almond topping. Bake 17 to 21 minutes.

CHERRY ALMOND PIE

Steps:

• Drain cherries, reserving 2/3 cup juice in a saucepan; discard remaining juice. To the juice, add the cherries, sugar, butter and salt. In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and water until smooth; stir into cherry mixture. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Remove from the heat; stir in the almond extract and food coloring if desired. Cool. , Line a 9-in. pie plate with bottom pastry; add filling. Make a lattice crust. Trim, seal and flute edges. Bake at 375° for 45-50 minutes or until crust is golden and filling is bubbly. Cool on a wire rack.

CHERRY ALMOND MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Cut in butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Beat the egg, sour cream and extract until smooth; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened (batter will be thick). , In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, egg, sugar and vanilla until smooth. In a saucepan over low heat, warm preserves. For topping, combine flour and sugar in a small bowl; cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in almonds., Fill greased jumbo muffin cups half full with batter. Divide cream cheese filling and preserves evenly among muffin cups; swirl gently. Cover with remaining batter. Sprinkle with topping. , Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in muffin comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm.