Adding chopped rose hips to this simple muffin recipe makes them a great breakfast item or a the perfect thing to serve for afternoon tea.
You can use fresh or dried rose hips in this recipe, but dried rosehips will need to be rehydrated. If that’s how you roll, be sure to save the liquid and use it instead of the milk in this recipe for an extra boost of rose hip flavor.
This recipe makes either 24 mini muffins or 12 regular sized muffins. If you plan to use paper liners, no need to grease the tin, but be aware they’re easier to remove from the papers when they’ve cooled. And here’s something that might be counterintuitive: these muffins taste better after they’ve cooled. At room temperature, the flavor of the rose hips really comes through.
what you’ll Need to Make Rose Hip Muffins
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chopped, seeded rose hips
- 1/2 cup milk (or rose hip hydrating liquid)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- turbinado sugar
- dried rose hip powder
what you’ll do to Make Rose Hip Muffins
Preheat the oven to 425F.
Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl, then add the chopped, seeded rose hips and incorporate them thoroughly into the dry ingredients. This ensures that the hips will be distributed throughout the muffins, rather than float to the top of each muffin.
Combine the liquid ingredients in another bowl, then pour the liquid into the dry ingredients and use a rubber scraper to combine the dry and the liquid. But just barely combine! Overmixing will give you a tough muffin. And no one likes a tough muffin.
Sprinkle the tops of each muffin with a bit of turbinado sugar or sparkling baking sugar. These coarse-grained sugars won’t melt in the oven. Sure you could skip this part, but you really shouldn’t.
Mini muffins will bake in 10 minutes, but regular sized muffins may take 20-25. The muffins are done when the tops are golden brown and a toothpick in the center comes out clean.
Remove the muffins from the tin as soon as they’re cool enough to handle. Sprinkle with the rose hip powder for a blush of color and a little extra rose hip flavor.
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