A new year of the Avid Bakers Challenge

I'll be baking another year with the Avid Bakers Challenge and this time the choice of recipes don't come from a book, but from the King Arthur flour site. Ah, we envy the possibility to visit King Arthur or even to order online, but here in Europe we haven't got such a store and the shipping costs would  be way too much these days. Years back I ordered some things from KA, a very costly procedure indeed. Baking stuff have come more available these days, though still not like the goodies from King Arthur. Fortunately we can make use of their abbundance of recipes that are available on their site and no need to buy yet another bakingbook. So that's a good thing.

And another good thing is the recipe this first time:

  Panettone Muffins

Recipe

These were lovely light, tasty, cakelike and moist muffins. We loved them. I did have some drops "Fiori di Sicilia"left from my order years back (stored as a treasure in the fridge)  and used that, love the stuff! I omitted the cake enhancer, as I didn't have that. The fruits were soaked in fruitjuice.

I divided the batter in 12, eventhough the cups seemed to be filled quite high. The recipe says to fill the cups "quite full", but I didn't know how full that was. I was afraid they might spill, but they behaved like angels and were perfect. So they didn't rise much, but still were very airy inside. The top stayed a little pale, but I resisted the temptation to leave them in longer and that way they were lovely and moist inside. A great recipe!