These Fresh Cranberry Muffins are a great way to use those gorgeous healthy cranberries. This is an easy recipe to make Cranberry Walnut Muffins.
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Did you know that fresh cranberries are native to North American and the native Americans used them for food, medicine, dyes for their clothing?
They are bursting with healthy antioxidants and have a high nutritional value, in fact, a 1/2 cup is only 25 calories. I know, we are mixing them up with sugar and all those other kinds of good stuff today but it’s nice to know we added this superfood to our diet today. These Cranberry Muffins with walnuts are a great example.
Sometimes we put off making cupcakes or muffins since they take a little more effort and time but if we need to feed a crowd or if we are watching our intake, these perfectly portioned sweets are a lifesaver.
These Cranberry Walnut Muffins are loaded with chopped cranberries and topped with a sweet buttery nut streusel and will make a great addition to your pastry/coffee bar.
And these Easy Cranberry muffins are perfect for a Fall Brunch or Christmas morning breakfast. But we just love them with our coffee on these wintery mornings.
Easy Fresh Cranberry Muffins
Make these Cranberry Muffins with Walnuts using fresh cranberries.
Prep Time20 mins
Cook Time25 mins
Total Time45 mins
Servings: 6
Ingredients
For the Topping
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter softened
- 3/4 cup walnuts
For the Muffins
- 1 1/3 cup flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cups walnuts
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 6 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
- pinch salt
Instructions
For the Topping
- Heat oven to 425 degrees
- Process the first four topping ingredients in a food processor until it resembles coarse sand, (about 5 pulses)
- Add nuts and pulse just enough to roughly chop, place in a small bowl and set aside
For the Muffins
- Prepare muffin tins with either cupcake papers or spray with a nonstick baking spray
- In a bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt set aside
- In the food processor, process nuts and sugar until mixture resembles coarse sand, transfer a large bowl and whisk in eggs, butter and milk, slowly add the flour mixture and blend
- Place cranberries, powdered sugar and salt in the food processor and process just until coarsely chopped, fold into the batter mixture
- Spoon into 12 muffin cups (fill to the top of each cup)
- Sprinkle the topping generously on each muffin, pressing in, if necessary to keep the topping from falling off
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes
- Remove from oven, let sit in muffin pans for 10 minutes and then remove and cool on cooling racks.
- After cool, refrigerate in a covered container
We are trying out all the new silicone bakeware this year, like this Silicone Muffin & Cupcake Baking Pan Set (12 & 24 Mini Cup Sizes) which covers our needs perfectly. We made a gorgeous cake at Thanksgiving with a fun Silicone Bundt Cake Pan and it came out easy and perfect.
If you enjoyed these Cranberry Muffins then:
Blueberry Muffins with Cream Cheese and a taste of Lemon
Christmas Candy Cookies
Boozy Banana Nut Bread
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Micha @ Cookin' Mimi
December 3, 2013 at 3:05 pmMuffins are magnificent and these look especially great. Thanks for linking up with us at Share Your Stuff Tuesdays.
Jessica Pelasky
December 3, 2013 at 4:42 pmHow delicious does this look! Yum! 🙂
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AndiWinslow
December 3, 2013 at 4:54 pmLove cranberries and your muffins look so pretty……….andi
Cindy Jamieson
December 3, 2013 at 6:39 pmOh wow, these look awesome. I love cranberry muffins. Thanks for sharing at Simple Supper Tuesday.
BettyCupcakes
December 4, 2013 at 1:54 amI was just thinking about getting some cranberries to bake with- you read my mind! Yum!
Melissa Llado
December 5, 2013 at 1:35 pmYUM! Pinning for later!! 🙂
Britni Vigil
December 6, 2013 at 6:33 amI have some leftover cranberries in my fridge that are dying to be made into these muffins! Thanks for sharing on the weekend re-Treat link party!
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Karly Campbell
December 8, 2013 at 8:14 pmLove that pecan streusel! Thanks for linking up with What's Cookin' Wednesday!
Miz Helen
December 9, 2013 at 8:46 pmGreat Muffins Evelyn, meant to be enjoyed with my afternoon tea! Hope you have a great week and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday!
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Miz Helen
MommyonDemand
December 9, 2013 at 10:17 pmThese look amzing! I can't wait to give this try!!!!!! Thanks for coming over to Create it or Bake it. Hope to see you again tomorrow morning!
Nibbles By Nic
December 10, 2013 at 12:53 amCan I have one right now??? Thanks so much for stopping by Munching Mondays with this deliciousness!
Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above
December 11, 2013 at 12:15 amThese look delicious. Thanks so much for sharing with Adorned From Above’s Link Party. Have a great week.
Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above
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Clairejustine oxox
December 15, 2013 at 12:57 amWhoo these look so yummy 🙂
Michelle
December 15, 2013 at 7:17 pmNot only is pecany a word, it is a great word. I'm totally digging the topping on these muffins! Thank you for sharing!
Melissa Bo
January 7, 2014 at 6:52 pmI love Cranberries and pecans! These sound so good!!! =)
Happy New Year!
Jamie Sherman
November 19, 2014 at 2:25 amThis might need to go with out Thanksgiving breakfast! 🙂
Michelle Nahom
December 12, 2014 at 11:14 pmThese look fabulous! Baking sounds like a good idea this weekend!!
Linda Nortje
November 24, 2015 at 12:51 pmI love anything with cranberries ! Your streusel topping looks especially good !