Home > Muffin Recipes >

Cranberry Muffin Recipe

A delicious cranberry muffin recipe made with dried cranberries and cherries and topped with cinnamon sugar. Serve these cranberry and cherry muffins warm for breakfast or brunch.

What can beat having fresh cranberry muffins on your breakfast table?

This sweet muffin recipe is a favorite any time of year but always seems to be especially popular in the fall around Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Dried cranberries and cherries give these muffins a sweet-tart flavor that is complemented by the cinnamon sugar topping. The cinnamon sugar is wonderful on these sweet muffins!

Find more recipes for homemade muffins like this cranberry muffin recipe.

Cranberry Muffin Recipe

Printer Friendly Recipe

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes

Ingredient List:

2 cups flour
2/3 cup sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup dried cherries
2 cups boiling water (for rehydrating the cranberries and cherries)(This water will be discarded-it is not part of the recipe.)

-----------------------------------------
Cinnamon Sugar Topping

2 Tablespoons melted butter
1/4 cup sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

-----------------------------------------
Kitchen Equipment Needed

1 medium mixing bowl
1 large mixing bowl
1 medium sized muffin tin, well greased (for 12 muffins)

Instructions:

Step 1: Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Step 2: Place the dried cranberries and cherries in a medium mixing bowl and add 2 cups boiling water. Let the dried fruit soak for 15 minutes.

Step 3: In a large mixing bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

Step 4: Stir in the melted butter, egg, and milk.

Step 5: Drain the cranberries and cherries and fold in to the batter, just until incorporated.

Step 6: Spoon the muffin batter into the well greased muffin cups.

Step 7: Bake at 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

Step 8: Remove from pans and brush the tops of the muffins with melted butter.

Step 8: Sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar mixture. Roll a second time in the sugar mixture. Serve these cranberry muffins warm.

This cranberry muffin recipe makes 12 muffins.

Old-Fashioned Recipe Cookbooks

Muffin Recipes Cookbook Homemade muffins, biscuits, and popovers are some of the best tasting additions to your breakfast or brunch table. Who doesn't like the wonderful aroma of freshly baked muffins or biscuits filling the kitchen and wafting up to the bedrooms.

There are some amazing muffin and biscuit recipes in this cookbook, most originating from Colonial times. This muffin cookbook has a delightful selection of classic breakfast and brunch recipes, ready for you to add to your recipe collection.

Bread Recipes Cookbook Enjoy the aroma of fresh bread baking in your home. These 56 old-time recipes for yeast breads and quick breads will let you in on a bit of the past as you will have some of the best bread recipes of colonial America. This cookbook also contains historical notes on the old mills of America.

Teacake Recipes Cookbook This unique teacake recipes cookbook contains more than just recipes. There is a wonderful history of tea in America, how a formal tea party was hosted in early American times, photos and descriptions of early tea sets, instructions on how to set your table for a tea party, explanations of the different types of tea, instructions on how to brew a perfect pot of tea, and tea etiquette.

New! Comments

I would love to hear your thoughts about the recipe(s) above.
Leave me a comment in the box below.

Secret Recipes Revealed

Make something different for dinner tonight. Get inside the hidden cookbooks of America's favorite restaurants including Red Lobster, Olive Garden, TGI Friday, PF Chang and many more! The secret recipes for your favorite restaurant dishes have now been revealed in this best-selling new cookbook. Prepare dishes you know they'll love and save money by easily making them at home. For the full list of secret recipes Click Here!