Star Anise Muffins
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
1 hr
Preparation
ready in 3 h.
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Ingredients
for
24
- For the muffin mixture
- 1 canned pears (small can)
- ⅔ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 ½ cups rolled oats
- ½ cup finely chopped almonds
- 2 tsps grated Lemon peel
- 1 tsp Anise seed
- 1 ½ tsps Baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 egg
- 0.333 cup powdered sugar
- ¼ cup neutral tasting vegetable oil
- ⅔ cup Sour cream (10 % fat)
- butter (for the tin, or 24 small paper cases)
- To decorate
- 0.333 cup cream (30 % fat, suitable for whipping)
- ½ cup soft, fresh Cheese (14 % fat)
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 tsps grated Lemon peel
- 48 whole Star anise
- whole, shelled almonds
Preparation steps
1.
Heat the oven to 180C (160C fan) 375F, gas 5.
2.
Drain the pears (catching the juice) and cut into small pieces. Carefully mix the flour with the rolled oats, chopped pears, almonds, lemon rind, ground anise, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.
3.
Lightly beat the egg in a bowl. Add the sugar, oil, sour cream and 80 ml pear juice and mix well. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and mix just long enough to moisten the dry ingredients.
4.
Butter the muffin tin or place a paper baking case in each cup. Spoon the mixture into the tin or the paper cases.
5.
Bake on the middle shelf of the oven for about 15 minutes. Take out of the oven, leave the muffins in the tin for a further 5 minutes, then take out and cool.
6.
To decorate: whip the cream, mix the whipped cream with the soft cheese, confectioners' sugar, 2 tbsp pear juice and the lemon rind and spread roughly on the muffins. Decorate with star anise and almonds.
