Christmas morning muffins in a jar
Karen Burns-Booth presents a novel Christmas gift idea. Layer all of the ingredients required to make a batch of festive muffins in a jar (minus the eggs, fat and milk of course!), add a wooden spoon along with an instruction label and a gift tag and you have an attractive and unusual gift to give this Christmas.
Ingredients
Muffin mix
- 300g of self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 175g of mixed dried fruits, such as cranberries, red and green cherries, sultanas, raisins, currants, glace ginger, mixed citrus peel, blueberries, bananas, mango and kumquats
- 75g of pecan nuts, roughly chopped
- 100g of caster sugar
To add later
- 2 large eggs
- 100g of butter , melted, or sunflower oil
- 300ml of milk
Method
1
Layer the dried ingredients in a 1 litre Kilner jar with clip-top lid and a rubber seal, in the order that they are listed
2
Attach the label and a wooden spoon to the top of the jar with some raffia or coloured ribbon and a sprig of holly or seasonal herbs
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Christmas morning muffins in a jar
