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Welcome!

Come in and make yourself at home. I'm so happy to be able to share my recipes here with you.

I bake mostly cookies, quick breads, muffins and scones -- sometimes pie, sometimes cake, but nothing too fancy. I prefer simple recipes that call for ingredients that I already have in my kitchen.

These are the recipes I will share with you. They come from family and friends, magazine clippings saved through the years, favorite cookbooks, and other blogs.

I'm so glad you came to visit. Enjoy your stay!

Michael Ann

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Almond Poppy Seed Muffins



I made these in honor of my friend Kari, whose love of a particular poppy seed muffin at a particular local coffee shop, inspired me to look for a recipe she might like.  The one she likes has almonds on the top too.  I found this recipe on the Betty Crocker website. 

These are easy and very tasty! My only complaint was that the recipe is supposed to make 12 and I only got 8. I do like to fill the muffin cups pretty high, so maybe that is why.  Next time I will double the recipe.

Almond Poppy Seed Muffins

½ cup sugar
1/3 cup canola or vegetable oil
1 egg
½  tsp almond extract
½ cup sour cream
¼ cup milk
1-1/3 cups  flour
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
2 TB poppy seeds
3 tsp raw or granulated sugar
2 TB sliced almonds

Preheat oven to 375-F.  Line a 12 cup muffin tin with paper liners or spray with PAM for baking.
In a large bowl, whisk together ½ cup sugar, oil, egg and almond extract.  Whisk in sour cream and milk until blended.  In a smaller bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and poppy seeds. Stir into wet ingredients until well blended.  Scoop into muffin cups until almost full.  Sprinkle with sugar and sliced almonds.

Bake ~15 minutes or until golden brown and top springs back.  Remove from pan and cool on wire rack.

Happy Baking!

4 comments:

  1. I cannot WAIT to try these! It would be fantastic if I could duplicate the ones from Mishka's, or get pretty close to them. I think they make theirs from some kind of a mix, if you can believe that. You and I should go there one day and sample them... see if we can figure it out... well... first let's see how these compare.

    You're so sweet.

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  2. I love poppy seed muffins. The taste of almond anything is divine. These look delish!

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  3. Great to see you on the blog :) Pinning this and hopefully making this today if I have all the ingredients. I love poppy seed and almond :)

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    1. Let me know how you like them! Thank you for pinning!

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