Marie’s Mandarin Muffins

These fruity muffins are great for breakfast, lunch boxes or an afternoon teatime treat.

Ingredients
For the muffins
1 310g tin mandarin oranges, drained and chopped into small pieces (you can use fresh mandarins but it’s a lot of work for the same result)
160g flour
75g sugar
1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
75g softened butter
125ml milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg, beaten

For the topping
30g sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
60g butter, melted

Method
Preheat oven to 180'C and grease a 12-muffin tin.
Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl and gradually add in butter until mixture becomes crumbly.
Add milk, vanilla extract and eggs, mixing until dry ingredients are just moist. Stir in mandarins.
Divide mixture into muffin tin and bake for 15 minutes or until baked through.

Mix together sugar and cinnamon and while muffins are still warm, dip tops into melted butter and roll in sugar mixture.

Serve warm with a pot of tea.