Jam Muffins, Apricot Etc

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 5 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 50 g butter (melted, 1 3/4oz)
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 12 teaspoons apricot jam
• powdered sugar (to decorate)

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven at 200°c (400°f).
• 2 sift the flour, baking powder and salt together into a baking bowl. make a hollow in the dry ingredients. beat the eggs and milk together and add with melted butter into the middle of the dry ingredients mixing just enough to moisten the mixture.
• 3 spoon a largish tablespoon of the mixture into the bottom of the muffin form,making certain that it covers the bottom of the muffin form. make a small hollow in the middle if the muffin mixture and set a teaspoon of apricot jam into the hollow, try not to let the jam run out to the sides very much.
• 4 cover the apricot jam with another spoonful of the muffin mix and run a clean finger around it so that the jam is as enclosed by the muffin mixture as possible.
• 5 bake at 200°c (400°f) for 15 minutes or until cooked.
• 6 ease the muffins out of the form while warm and put onto a wire rack to cool.
• 7 once cool, dust the tops with powdered sugar.