Back in the nineties, cranberry-orange everything was all the rage in coffee shops – and when we went to those first few that began taking over our Saturday mornings, Mike always ordered cranberry orange in muffin and loaf form. Although it’s not as common a flavour combination these days, it came to mind on Sunday morning as I puttered around the kitchen and although I didn’t really need to bake anything, slush was falling from the sky outside and I wanted to warm up with the smell of something baking. Also: second coffee. These are super simple – templates for any kind of muffin, really. Grate the zest finely (I use a microplane – best tool ever) and stir it into the wet ingredients to allow it to release as much flavour as possible (if I’m making a cake or recipe that requires beating of butter and sugar together, I add it there) – but it could be lemon zest, and they could be blueberries.Continue reading
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