Welcome to my new morning obsession, Christmas morning muffins!















If you are anything like me, come Christmas morning you want a treat for breakfast but none of the hassle of making it. It’s a busy enough day as it is and spending hours over a stove in the morning is just not my idea of fun.

But I want something a little more fancy then a bowl of cornflakes but not so filling that I can’t eat my Christmas dinner. These muffins are your answer, trust me 😀

Quick to put together

Like most muffins these are quick to put together and you can even prep your ingredients the night before so all you have to do in the morning is mix up the wet ingredients combine them with the already prep’ed dry ingredients. Scoop them into a muffin pan and bake!















Christmas flavouring

The amazing thing about these muffins is, they taste like Christmas in a muffin. They are packed full of Christmas spices like ground cloves, ginger and nutmeg.















Chopped nuts, dried cranberries, glace cherries, mixed peel, raisins and marzipan.















I broke up the marzipan into little balls so it is dotted throughout the muffins and you get a bit of it in every bite. The decoration (which it optional) is also made of marzipan to boost that lovely almond flavour even more.

A Lighter Alternative

Because these lovely treats are muffins they are a lot lighter than Christmas cake, and some people (strange people I know) don’t actually like Christmas cake because they find it too heavy. This is a great way to let people feel part of the party! The flavour is just like it but so much lighter.















It doesn’t matter if you make these for breakfast or have them for afternoon tea, these muffins will put even the most bah humbug of people in the Christmas mood.

Sweet, spicy and chocked full of festive flavour you can’t lose with these Christmas morning muffins.

What treats do you enjoy for Christmas breakfast?



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