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Nan's Nut-Free Recipes

Nan is an excellent cook. She fed her family of four children well. Nan now cooks for her eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She shares her nut-free recipes with secret ingredients handed down through generations of loving mothers.

Nan's Cookies and Cream Muffins for March

3/11/2017

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Ingredients
  • 1 cup of plain flour
  • 1⁄3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 3⁄4 tsp of baking soda
  • 1⁄2 tsp of baking powder
  • 1⁄4 tsp of salt
  • 1cup of milk
  • 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar  --  Secret Ingredient
  • 3⁄4 cup of caster sugar
  • 1⁄3 cup of canola oil
  • 1 1⁄2 tsp of vanilla extract
  • 10 Oreo cookies, coarsely chopped
  • Frosting
  • 1⁄2 cup ghee
  • 1⁄2 cup butter
  • 3 1⁄2 cups icing sugar (sifted)
  • 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1⁄4 cup milk
  • 5 Oreo cookies, finely mashed
Method
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) and line 12 muffin cup tray with paper liners.
  2. Sift together the plain flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a bowl and set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, whisk together the milk and vinegar and set aside for a few minutes to curdle.
  4. Add the sugar, oil and vanilla extract and beat with electric mixer until foamy.
  5. Add the dry ingredients and beat for 2 minutes.
  6. Stir in the chopped Oreos into the mixture.
  7. Spoon the mixture evenly into the 12 liner cups.
  8. Bake for 20 minutes.
  9. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
  10. To make the frosting, beat the ghee and butter in a bowl with electric mixer until well combined and fluffy.
  11. Add icing sugar and beat for 3 minutes.
  12. Add the vanilla extract and milk and beat until fluffy.
  13. Add Oreo crumbs and mix well.
  14. Frost the cupcakes. Serves 12.
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