Red Currant Muffins Gluten Free Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease 12 muffin tins or line with paper casings.
• Combine flour, xanthan, baking powder, ground almonds and cinnamon.
• Cream butter, brown sugar, buttermilk and egg yolks, add vanilla.
• Beat egg whites until glossy and nearly stiff, then continue beating, slowly adding the powdered sugar, until you get stiff peaks.
• Combine flour mixture and creamed butter-buttermilk-egg yolk-sugar mixture.
• Carefully fold currants into stiff egg whites, then gently fold egg whites with currants into muffin batter.
• Fill 12 muffin tins.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) for 20-25 minutes.

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar.
• Add both eggs and orange peel, or flower water and beat well.
• Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into the creamed mixture and lightly blend.
• Fold in the red currants.
• Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full and bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until muffins test done.
• Cool for 5 minutes before placing on wire rack.
• Dust with confectioners' (icing) sugar once completely cooled.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and orange zest. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture just until blended. Fold in currants. , Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Serve warm.