Hearty Fruit Salad Muffins

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, hearty fruit salad muffins. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hearty Fruit Salad Muffins is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Hearty Fruit Salad Muffins is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Came up with these this morning trying to use up some leftover fruit and these are definitly hearty and yummy! Berries, stone fruit, and orchard fruit will generally all work well in muffins. Bananas too, of course, are excellent, as are most other tropical fruits when drained and chopped. Avoid subbing citrus in using this formula — the zest and juice are great when added to baked goods, but the pulp gets soggy and mealy when cooked inside.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hearty fruit salad muffins using 16 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Hearty Fruit Salad Muffins:
  1. Prepare 1 cup fresh chopped strawberries
  2. Make ready 2 tbsp granulated sugar
  3. Get 1 cup granulated sugar
  4. Take 1 1⁄2 cup all purpose flour
  5. Prepare 1⁄2 cup mashed fresh watermelon (with its juices)
  6. Prepare 1⁄2 tsp baking powder
  7. Get 1⁄4 tsp baking soda
  8. Take 1 pinch salt
  9. Make ready 2 large eggs
  10. Prepare 4 large pinches lemon zest
  11. Take 4 tbsp buttermilk
  12. Prepare 1 cup fresh blueberries
  13. Take 3⁄4 cup small chopped walnuts
  14. Make ready 1 1⁄2 tbsp toasted watermelon seeds
  15. Make ready optional:
  16. Make ready 1 cool whip

It's a typical, hearty New England muffin! Whisk egg, pumpkin and orange juice in large bowl until blended. I love fruit, it really is natures candy. When ripe, it's sweet, refreshing and delicious.

Steps to make Hearty Fruit Salad Muffins:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F
  2. Place strawberries in a small bowl and sprinkle the 2tbl. Sugar on top. Let stand 15 minutes to let it emit juices. Set aside.
  3. In a large bowl wisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
  4. In a medium bowl wisk together, watermelon, strawberries and all their juices, eggs, buttermilk, sugar and zest.
  5. Add wet to dry.
  6. Stir together until just incorporated. Do not overmix.
  7. Fold in blueberries and walnuts.
  8. Line 14 regular cupcake/muffin pan cups with paper liners. Or spray well with baking spray.
  9. Fill all 14 evenly with batter. It should be filled almost to the top of the liners.
  10. Sprinkle each evenly with toasted watermelon seeds.
  11. Bake about 22 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
  12. Let stand a few minutes.
  13. Transfer to wire rack for cooling.
  14. Serve and enjoy.
  15. Optional top with a dollop of cool whip just before serving
  16. HINTS AND NOTES:
  17. You can use oil or melted butter in replace of the buttermilk.
  18. You may use orange or lime zest in replace of the lemon zest.
  19. You can find my recipe for toasted watermelon seeds in my profile.
  20. Makes about 14 normal sized muffins.

I love fruit, it really is natures candy. When ripe, it's sweet, refreshing and delicious. When used in the right way it makes a wonderful baking companion. Cobbler or maybe a cheeky fruit salad? Anyway… I have made sure to pack these muffins with natures, natural sweeteners.

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