Valentine Muffins
Tittle: Valentie Muffins
Cook time: 35 minutes
Level: Medium
Serving: 12
Ingredients:
6 tbsp. butter
¾ cup sugar
2 eggs
½ cup milk
14 fresh strawberries
Food coloring (optional)
2 cups all-purpose flour
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
Hershey’s kisses or strawberry ham
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar, with a wooden spoon or a handheld electric mixer. Mix in the eggs, one at a time, and add the milk.
Rinse the strawberries and cut off the greens with a plastic knife: mash the berries with a potato masher or puree in a blender. Then stir the berries into the butter and milk mixture.
In a separate bowl, mix the flour, salt and baking powder. Stir well. Add the flour mixture to the berry mixture. Use a wooden spoon to stir until all the white disappears.
Line the muffin tin with paper liners. Drop the batter from a tablespoon to fill the cups halfway. Add an unwrapped Kiss, Hug or 1/2 teaspoon of jam. Then spoon more batter to fill almost to the top.
Bake until the muffins begin to brown and a toothpick inserted near the center (but not in the Kiss) comes out clean, about 20 to 25 minutes.
Remove the muffins from the tin and cool. Serve them warm in a basket lined with a red napkin.
Personal Suggestion: For muffins with a more pronounced pink color, add a few drops of red liquid food coloring or dabs of paste coloring. Valentine’s Day is full of surprises; the sweetest surprises of them all are often cooked up in the kitchen. Teach your kids how to bake a Valentine’s breakfast treat.
