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Easy Jam Filled Muffins - A perfect kiddie treat

December is a hectic month. Socializing, vacation plans, festive madness all around. More so for me as it was my son's 3rd birthday on 4 December and I took on myself what only a few crazy (foodblogger) moms would - ie. Catering to a small crowd of some 18 kids and 2 dozen adults all by myself (a co
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Ingredients
  

  • 1 xbd Cups All purpose flour
  • xbd Cup Sugar
  • 1.5 tsps baking powder
  • xbd tsp baking soda
  • xbc Cup Butter
  • xbd Cup yogurt
  • Egg .
  • tsp Vanilla Extract .
  • 12 tsps Jam (I used black currant jam)
  • Icing sugar .

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven.
  • Line a 12 muffin tin with paper liners or grease well and keep aside.
  • In a large bowl, mix well (with a fork) flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar.
  • In a microwave safe glass bowl, melt butter (20 seconds).
  • Add to this cold yogurt, juice and vanilla extract.
  • Check if this mix has come to room temperature and then add one beaten egg.
  • (If you add egg to hot melted butter, it will scramble, hence the precaution).
  • Add the wet ingredients to the dry and lightly combine with a fork until they come together. Do NOT beat or overmix. This will make your muffins rock like.
  • Spoon a little over a tsp of batter in each muffin liner. Place around a tsp of jam over this and cover with 1-2 tsp of batter, dividing the batter evenly between 12 cups.
  • Bake at 180 C for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. (some melted jam may stick to skewer, but that is okay).
  • Remove and dust with icing sugar.

Notes

Tip:
Please note that I added little under a tsp of jam as I thought the jam would melt inside the oven itself and make the muffins look messy. Turns out I was wrong. You can be generous with the jam filling, and it wont spill out as most of the liquid part gets absorbed into the muffin while baking.
In case you want to know where i found the pretty muffin liners - they are from General Food Additives, Sheshadripuram, Bangalore. That one little shop can take care of your baking needs completely.