Following on from my last weekly tip ‘the health benefits of cranberries.’ I thought I would share this delicious recipe as another way to get this super nutritious fruit into your diet.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter (at room temperature)
• 1/2 cup castor sugar
• 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup plain yoghurt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
• 3 tablespoons on orange zest
• 1 and 3/4 cups plain flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 Tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1 Tablespoon milk
• 1 and 1/2 cups frozen cranberries
• 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180degrees
• Prepare muffin tray by either spraying or adding muffin cases
• Add butter and sugars to a mixing bowl and cream together using an electric whisk until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs to the butter sugar mixture one at time.
• Add the yoghurt, vanilla bean paste orange zest, orange juice and milk to the mixture and mix well.
• In a separate bowl mix together the four, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
• Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet using a spoon to fold the mixture together.
• Fold in the frozen cranberries and pumpkin seeds to the mixture.
• Spoon mixture into prepared muffin cases until nearly full
• Bake in the oven for around 25minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.

Enjoy! X