It’s our 2024 Christmas Brunch: Holiday Spice Muffins and Quick Bread Recipe!
This recipe couldn’t be any simpler! It’s a basic muffin or quick bread recipe with the perfect blend of holiday spices to make it taste just right at Christmastime.
The secret ingredient?? SHHHHH. I can’t tell you!
Just kidding. You’ll read about it below in a minute and a half anyway. Actually, you’ve read it here before, and I stand by this great option as a way to make our muffins and quick breads taste better. It is, none other than, sour cream.
Yep. A plop of sour cream in our quick breads and muffins takes them up several notches.
The making of the muffins
My work time is so limited now because of the precious houseful of additional kids God has given us. Therefore, it has been a very long time since I created new recipes to share with you. That is why, when I was staging our Holiday Spice Muffins to take a picture to share with you, all the kids gathered around to get in the picture. Why take a boring ol’ photo of muffins when obviously, everyone wants to see a picture of the babies!!
Josie Baby
Next, I managed to take this picture of the bread, but meh. It would have been sweeter with a sweetheart in the frame.
Either way, WELCOME to the very first day of our 2024 Christmas Brunch! The first recipe to be shared is this perfectly sweetened, lovely and moist Holiday Spice Muffin and Quick Bread recipe.
Turn this recipe into 18 muffins or two medium-sized loaves of bread. It’s a lovely side to go with tomorrow’s Christmas Casserole recipe!
Holiday Spice Muffins and Quick Bread
- 3 cups whole grain flour
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup milk
- ¾ cup sour cream
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup melted coconut oil
- In a mixing bowl, stir together all dry ingredients.
- Add in milk, sour cream, eggs, and oil and mix well.
- Scoop into 18 paper-lined muffin tins or 2 well-buttered loaf pans.
- Bake muffins in a 400 degree oven for 20 minutes or bread in a 350 degree oven for 45-55 minutes.
Coming up tomorrow in our 2024 is the most delicious breakfast casserole that is perfect for Christmas! Best yet, it can be made ahead of time to be baked and enjoyed Christmas morning. Come one, come all!
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