Angela Nilsen

London Starbucks
Rasberry Coffee Time Muffin
Makes 12

2 tbsp finely ground coffee
100g butter
50g pine nuts
1 tbsp milk
400g self-raising flour
175g golden caster sugar
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 large eggs
284 ml soured cream
250g fresh/frozen raspberries

l Stir 2 tbsp boiling water into the coffee. Set aside for a few minutes. Heat oven to 200°C/fan180°C/gas mark 6. Toast half the pine nuts. Strain and mix the coffee with the milk. Melt butter.
l Mix the flour, toasted pine nuts, sugar and bicarbonate of soda in a large bowl. In another bowl, beat the eggs, then mix in the soured cream, cooled butter and coffee. Stir this into the flour mixture until almost combined.
l Tip in the raspberries, give a few more stirs to finish the mixing, but don’t overbeat or the mix will toughen. Spoon the mixture into the muffin tins lined with paper cases.
l Scatter the rest of the pine nuts on top and bake for about 25 minutes until risen and golden. Let them cool in the tin a few minutes, then move to a cooling rack. Eat within two days

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