Delicious, delicious! I made these last month and still have a few tucked away “for the man” in the freezer.
Dried mango slices chopped and soaked in premium Jamaican rum was the beginning of these yummy muffins with none of the soaking liquid wasted. Booze is not my friend, but I tolerate it in baking. Not that I ate more than one due to my latest curse, an all encompassing milk protein allergy. The taste of coconut and almond milk despised, a muffin here and there with dairy is worth the pain. The least distinct milk substitute is oat milk, but you can’t whip oat. Not much krémes or somlói for me.
On a side note, our world tends to celebrate the wrong people. Entertainers and the rich and famous are the bomb. How many Nobel Prize winners can we name? That is why l am so pleased Karikó Katalin winning the Nobel Prize! First and foremost a Hungarian’s researcher makes it possible to bring the Pandemic under control. Then there is the promise mRNA will be used against cancer and allergies. How wonderful is that?
Mango Muffins with Rum
2/3 cup dry mango, diced
1/3 cup dark rum
1/4 cup soft butter
4 Tbsp oil
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup 3.25 % buttermilk
1/2 cup 14% sour cream
2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
• Soak the diced dry mango in rum for an hour or longer.
• Preheat oven to 425F.
• Line a muffin tin with large size parchment liners.
• Add soft butter, oil, sugar, eggs, baking powder, baking soda and salt to a beater bowl and beat until fluffy.
• In a measuring cup whisk together the sour cream and the buttermilk and the lemon juice.
• Alternating, gradually add the lour and the sour cream mixture to the butter mixture and stir it with a wooden spoon to combine. [From here on end don’t beat the batter]
• Add the rum soaked mango with the remaining rum to the batter.
• Divide the batter in the prepared muffin tin.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 8 minutes.
• Reduce heat to 400F and bake 12 minutes longer.
• Test for doneness and bake it 2-3 minutes longer if needed.
• Remove the muffin tin from the oven and place it on a wire rack.
