Gingerbread Muffins

Ingredients

For  Single recipe    (12 standard muffins or 6 large muffins)

Ingredients to Cream and Mix:

Dry Ingredients:

Hot Water:

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375°.
  2. Grease muffin pans and set aside.
  3. Cream together butter and brown sugar.
  4. Beat in egg, then molasses and vanilla.
  5. Add dry ingredients. Mix on low speed until incorporated.
  6. Gradually add ½ cup hot water, beating until smooth.
  7. Fill greased muffin pans ⅔ full.
  8. Bake 15 minutes for a standard muffin pan, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
  9. Bake 25 minutes for a large 6-muffin pan, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
  10. Muffins are done when top bounces back to touch and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

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Recipe adapted from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, Des Moines: Meridith Corporation (1979).