Festive Strawberry Muffins

Food is not about impressing people It's about making them feel comfortable." said Ina Garten, in  'The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and thats exactly the way I approach cooking or baking.

For me, the food that I cook has to be quick and  tasty. And I'm positive that many of you feel exactly the same way.

In this post, I'm talking about home made strawberry muffins. They could have been presented very simply but because its the festive season, I'm choosing to present the 'dressed up' version.

Festive Strawberry Muffins

Ingredients for 8 large muffins

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup sugar

Half cup chopped strawberries( frozen/fresh)

2 whole eggs

250 gms butter

1/2 cup milk/yogurt

vanilla essence

1 tsp baking powder

Method

Prepare the muffin tin with greased and lined muffin tins.

Mix all the dry ingredients in a  mixing bowl.

Mix and gently stir the wet ingredients- butter, eggs, vanilla and strawberry essences, in another dry mixing bowl.Make sure that the mix is uniform and not too thick or too thin.

Slowly fold in the chopped strawberries and keep the prepared mix aside.

Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ones and fold in gently to get a uniform mix.

 

Bake in a preheated oven at 150 C for 25/30 mins and insert a dry toothpick to see if the muffins are ready.

Keep on a wire rack to cool .

Once the muffins have cooled, dust with icing sugar and decorate with edible sugar decorations.






Sit back and enjoy these anytime treats accompanied with a hot cup of tea or coffee and make sure you share them with friends and family.

Then watch their faces light up with joy!

And remember, the festive season just got started...