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SOURDOUGH GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Sourdough Gingerbread Muffins

These simple to make sourdough gingerbread muffins are full of everything that you love about gingerbread ... just in a muffin! And bonus they use sourdough discard!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 12 Muffins
Calories 120 kcal

Equipment

  • Mixing Bowl
  • Digital Scales
  • 12 Hole Muffin Tin

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g Sourdough Starter Discard or Active Starter
  • 180 g All Purpose Flour
  • 2 Eggs
  • 70 g Dark Brown Sugar
  • 50 g Molasses
  • 6 g Baking Powder (1 tsp)
  • 50 g Vegetable Oil Light flavor
  • 50 g Milk
  • 5 g Salt (1 tsp)
  • 5 g Vanilla Extract
  • 2 tsp Ginger Ground
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon Ground
  • ½ tsp Nutmeg Ground
  • ½ tsp All Spice
  • ⅓ tsp Cloves Ground
  • ⅓ tsp Cardamom

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 180C/350F and grease a 12 hole muffin tin with butter or use paper liners.
  • Mix the sourdough starter, 2 eggs, milk, molasses, vanilla extract and oil in a bowl. Whisk together until well combined. It's ok if the oil sits on the top, it will combine once it is poured into the dry ingredients.
    a glass bowl containing all the dry ingredients and a plastic bowl containing all the wet ingredients whisked together.
  • In a separate bowl mix together all purpose flour, spices, salt, baking powder and sugar.
  • Now pour the liquid ingredient mixture into the dry ingredients. Gently fold together until just mixed - don't over mix or the muffins will be tough.
    Pouring the wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients.
  • Spoon mixture into greased muffin tin. This recipe will fill a 12 hole muffin (each hole around ¾ full).
    Mixture spooned into a 12 hole muffin tray lined with paper liners.
  • Bake at 180C/350F for approximately 15 minutes or until muffins are golden brown.
  • Serve warm, dusted with icing sugar or drizzled with a sugar glaze.

Nutrition

Calories: 120kcalCarbohydrates: 24gProtein: 3gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 28mgSodium: 231mgPotassium: 105mgFiber: 1gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 47IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 57mgIron: 1mg
Keyword Sourdough Discard
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