Today, Mama shares her recipe for Fabulous Dried Apricot Muffins with us! Take it away, Mama!
Today I am bringing you a recipe for some wonderful muffins. They have little nuggets of golden deliciousness in every bite. But first, I’d like to tell you how I came to have this recipe. If you are a regular reader of Southern Plate stories, you know that both Christy and I have had accidents that broke both our legs. I broke both of mine in 2004 and Christy’s accident was last year. Now you may think the odds are that very few people have that happen to them. But before I was in my accident, a friend of my ours had a terrible car accident that broke both her legs. When she found out about my accident, she traveled over 100 miles to visit with me and give me hope. She was the one person I knew who could answer all my questions. I remember that my number one question was, “Will I ever wake up in the morning and just get out of bed without having to think about it?” She assured me that I would and I have! I may never be “as good as new” but I’m just proud to be here and grateful for every day I have. Her visit with me meant so much, more than she will probably ever realize. I only hope that I have been able to convey that to her.
When she came to our house, not only did she bring hope and some things to make me more comfortable, she also brought two baskets of wonderful muffins. Muffins are one of my number one favorite treats. Christy feels that way about cookies. As I have told you before, I am a bread lover and muffins are the dessert of breads, literally. I am always on the lookout for a new and delicious muffin recipe. It is one of the first sections I go to in every cookbook I look through.
These muffins are great to have on the weekends when you just want to sit and relax before starting the day or for a brunch with an omelet or fruit salad. I have made them the day before and reheated them in the microwave and they are just like fresh from the oven. Don’t be surprised if the dough doesn’t look like normal muffin batter. It is much thicker but turns out with wonderful results. They would be equally good with dried peaches. If you are a muffin lover like me, please give these a try. I know you will not be disappointed.
This is the line up for our delicious apricot muffins. We will need dried apricots, water, sugar, butter (or margarine), sour cream, flour, baking soda and salt.
Chop apricots with a sharp knife and soak in boiling water for 5 minutes.
In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add sour cream and mix well.
This is what your mixture will look like after you have mixed in your sour cream.
I could have left this picture out but it wanted to be included so much!
Combine flour, baking soda and salt.
Pour dry ingredients into batter mixture and fold in until well combined.
Drain apricots and pat dry with paper towels.
Dump those apricot nuggets into your batter.
Now isn’t that so pretty?
Like little sunshine pieces just waiting for you to taste.
Stir to incorporate the apricot pieces.
Line muffin tin with papers and fill 2/3 full. I had 15 muffins instead of the 12 but that gave me three to eat with no guilt! If a recipe makes extra, the extra should be for the cook to enjoy. At least, that’s my way of thinking today.
Bake in a preheated 400 degrees oven for 18 to 20 minutes or until lightly golden brown.
Slather with butter, eat, and enjoy! Have a wonderful day!
Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped dried apricots
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Soak diced apricots in boiling water for 5 minutes.
- In large mixing bowl, cream sugar and butter until fluffy.
- Add sour cream, mix well.
- Combine dry ingredients; Stir into creamed mixture just until fully mixed.
- Drain apricots, pat dry with paper towel and stir into batter.
- Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until tests done.
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Janice,
Those look delicious! Perfect with a cup of coffee. Hope you are doing well.
Happy New Year,
Angela
Hi, Christy’s Mama==those muffins look and sound wonderful. I hope to try these soon and will put dried apricots on my grocery list. Can’t imagine what it would be like to have two broken legs. Thanks for sharing the recipe. Happy New Year!
What does making muffins have to do with breaking a bone? It doesn’t. So tired of hearing about your body ailments. Just post the recipe. I’m sure no-one wants to hear about my hemmorhoids or yeast infection.
Someone please call the Waaambulance for Crystal! One, at the top of the page it says Jump to Recipe, you don’t have to read the post if you don’t wish to. Two, scroll. If you haven’t learned how to, now is the time! Three, get a cookbook, an old school cookbook without the stories.
Just made these, they look absolutely scrumptious!
Ohmygosh! Those look delicious! I can’t wait to try them out. I wonder if they would be good with dates instead of apricots.
This looks delicious! I saw the photos of you and your husband, Janice, and I must say you are one handsome couple!
These look so delicious and pretty also. I plan on trying this recipe very soon. Thank you for sharing!
I made this exactly as written. It is fantastic! My oldest doesn’t like really sweet things and she says these are like a perfect cupcake. I made them with blueberries and in the oven right now I have craisin, white chocolate chip, and macadamia nut. The base muffin is just unbelievably moist and scrumptious! Thank you so much!!!!
Look great…will this recipe work with dried figs?
Oh goodness, I think those would be delicious!
Next to apples, apricots are my favorite fruit. They are now on my grocery list to make these this week.
Thanks for the recipe.
My husband will love these and thank you for your wisdom on having hope through illness!
Yum! This sound wonderful. I think I will have to try these substituting dried dates. Thank you
Please help! I loved using Ziplist for saving Christy’s recipes. I can’t tell you how often I used it! It is no longer available:(
I was able to move all my saved recipes to Epicurious. Is there a way to save this recipe directly to my recipe box there?
Thanks for any help in advance!
Kathy
I’m afraid not. Epicurious is owned by the company who bought out zip list (Conde Nast) and then shut down all use of it for the blogs who used it. This is by their intentional design. Now, you are able to save Epicurious recipes to your recipe box only, as far as I know. Clever, huh? They immediately shot up the users on their site just by buying out a company and giving folks no other choice if they want to keep the recipes they had saved.
It was disheartening for us, to say the least.
Right now, the only options I have for offering a recipe box are ones that would charge you as much as $20 a year to use so I’m still exploring. In the meantime, though, you can print the recipes and they are *always* available here on Southernplate.com anytime, day or night.
Hey Christy – I know you have all kinds of free time on your hands to find a new online recipe box for all of us (NOT!!!) … have you looked at justapinch.com? They offer free memberships with recipes from individuals all over the place (so I don’t think they’re a competitor of yours; if they are, I’m sorry and never mind. :-o). Just a thought! Happy Monday!
Christy, I have been saving the page of the recipe in a Southern Plate file I created on my desktop. When I want a certain recipe of yours I go to the folder on my desktop, open it and click on the link for the page for that recipe. I am so happy your momma joined you on Southern Plate that means we get twice as much encouragement, wisdom and recipes. I hope this bit of info helps people save your recipes it honestly not hard this way.
I have found That the website PINCHED lets you save These recipes I was lucky enough to find them and transferred almost all of my ziplist. I have had major problems with Ep. and have lost all my recipes I had there.