Saturday 13 November 2010

Week 40 - Improved Sweet Mince Muffins with Cinnamon Cream Frosting.

Anyone who has followed my blog will know that I created some sweet mincemeat muffins last year...well, that time of year has rolled around again and hubby is craving them again! I decided to start again and try to make them a little more caramelised on top with a hint of Christmas about them other than the mincemeat. Hope you like them :)

Ingredients:

8oz Self Raising Flour
8oz Caster Sugar
8oz Butter
3 Eggs
1 cup of Sweet Mincemeat
Sprinkle of Cinnamon
2 tblsp Brown Sugar

12oz Icing Sugar
6oz Butter
2 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Chocolate covered coffee beans
Combine the sugar and butter and whisk until well blended. Add the eggs one at a time making sure you pull down the mix from the sides of the bowl before adding the next.
Sieve the flour and add slowly to your eggy mix. When fully mixed add the Sweet Mincemeat and blend well.
Spoon into muffin cases and sprinkle with the cinnamon and brown sugar. Bake at 180 degrees for approx 25 minutes, take out when topping is hard and a skewer comes out of the cake clean.
Leave to cool completely.
Mix together all the ingredients for the frosting except the coffee beans. Make sure you have a firm mix that will hold up well on the cakes and pip in swirls. Finish with a chocolate coffee bean or decoration of your choice.Please try and let me know what you think (these are yummy fresh out of the oven too but you have to skip the frosting - only downside to having the first ones!) LOL

10 comments:

  1. OOO, these sound delicious & I shall definately be giving them a go in December

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  2. Hello my lovely, how are you? Good grief, my mouth is watering looking at those pictures!! More so because Im pretending to be all virtuous (whilst trying to lose a few pounds) and if they were in front of me right now Id demolish the lot!!

    Thanks for sharing the recipe, sending love
    Julia x x x

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  3. Hello my lovely, how are you? Good grief, my mouth is watering looking at those pictures!! More so because Im pretending to be all virtuous (whilst trying to lose a few pounds) and if they were in front of me right now Id demolish the lot!!

    Thanks for sharing the recipe, sending love
    Julia x x x

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  4. I have no idea what sweet mincemeat is... but I am GUESSING it's not meat! ;)

    Looks yummy!

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  5. Hi Debbie,
    They look lovely will have a go at making them sometime.Lesley x

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  6. ooh, these look gorgeous, will definitely give them a try!

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  7. These sound and look scrummy Love sweet mince now wouldn't touch it when i was little thought it was made with mincemeat

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  8. So yummy and festive sounding

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  9. I made these as mini-muffins and they were bite-sized pieces of heaven. I'm going to feature them on a forthcoming festive blog post and link back to the recipe if that's OK!

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  10. Love these,I found them via the link on Jimjam's blog. My Mum had just left me with ajar of home made mincemeat that needed using, so I gave them a go = they are yummy I can see myself making more of these. One thing my frosting turned a pale brown cinnamon colour, which is ok but yours is cream, how did you manage that?

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