Courgette muffins
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Plus cooling
- Easy
- Makes 12
Ingredients
- 50g courgette, cut into chunks
- 1 apple, peeled and quartered
- 1 orange, halved
- 1 egg
- 75g butter, melted
- 300g self-raising flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 100g golden caster sugar
- handful of sultanas
- 1 tub soft cheese mixed with 3 tbsp icing sugar, to make icing
Method
- STEP 1
Brush the muffin tin with oil. Ask your grown-up helper to switch the oven to 190C/ 170C fan/gas 5.
- STEP 2
Grate the courgettes and put them in a large bowl. Grate the apple and add to the bowl. Squeeze the orange and add the juice to the bowl.
- STEP 3
Break the egg into a bowl; if any bits of shell get in, scoop them out with a spoon. Stir the butter and egg into the courgette and apple mix.
- STEP 4
Sieve the flour, baking powder and cinnamon into the bowl. Add the sugar and sultanas.
- STEP 5
Mix with a spoon until everything is combined, but don’t worry if it is lumpy.
- STEP 6
Spoon the mixture into the tin. Ask your helper to put it in the oven and cook for 20-25 mins. Cool in the tin, then spread some icing on each.
