Use this easy muffin batter to create your favorite variety.
Adaptable Almond Muffins
Use this easy muffin batter to create your favorite variety.
Servings
12 Servings
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 cup milk
- ¼ cup almond oil
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup sliced roasted almonds*
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- In a separate bowl, stir together egg, milk, almond oil and almond extract.
- Blend with dry ingredients just until moistened. Stir in almonds.
- Spoon into paper-lined 2½-inch muffin pan. Bake at 400°F, on top rack of oven, 20 to 25 minutes.
- *To roast almonds, spread on an ungreased baking pan. Place in a 350°F oven, and bake 7 to 10 minutes or until almonds are fragrant; stir once or twice to assure even browning. Almonds will continue to roast slightly after removing from oven.
- To add variety to your almond muffin base:
- Blueberry-Almond Muffins:
- Fold 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries into batter with almonds.
- Spice Cherry and Almond Muffins:
- Add 1 teaspoon cinnamon with dry ingredients. Fold ⅔ cup chopped dried cherries into batter with almonds.
- Apricot-Almond Muffins:
- Fold 1 cup chopped dried apricots into batter with almonds.
- Lemon-Almond Muffins:
- Fold 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel (yellow part only) into batter with almonds.
- Source: Almond Board of California
I would think that any non dairy milk sub would work, rice milk, soy milk, almond milk or even coconut milk should all be fine. Let us know what you choose and how they come out.
10/01/2011
I like this muffin recipe very much, but I don’t want to use the milk that is required because of allergies. What can I substitute with, also to make it Parve, instead of making it dairy/milchig? I would like to use it for Sukkoth? Hope to be hearing your answer soon. ShanaTova
Many gourmet markets have it and I often find it at Marshalls, you can definitely use canola oil or even peanut oil in this recipe, but it is fun to try different oils sometimes.
Where do I get almond oil?