Grapefruit and pecan muffins recipe
Ever put grapefruit in a muffin? It works! Lisa Faulkner adds pecans and fresh orange juice to her batter, too.
Ingredients
- 1 grapefruit, only use the zest and flesh
- 120 g muscovado sugar
- 2 eggs
- 125 ml fresh orange juice
- 250 g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 50 g chopped pecans
- 100 ml melted butter
Details
- Cuisine: American
- Recipe Type: Cake
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation Time: 10 mins
- Cooking Time: 15 mins
- Serves: 12
Step-by-step
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C fan. Take off the top and bottom of the grapefruit so that it sits flat. Cut into 4, remove the pips and roughly chop including the skin.
- Place the chopped grapefruit and sugar into a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Add the egg, orange juice and melted butter and combine.
- Sieve all the dry ingredients apart from the pecans into a bowl, mix in the orange mixture and fold through the nuts until the mixture is just combined. Try not to over mix.
- Pour into 12 muffin cases in muffin tins and bake for approx 14 minutes.
Recipe provided by Florida Grapefruit
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