Recipe - Cheery Cherry Muffins

2 cup Flour
1/3 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Maraschino cherries,
quartered
1 tablespoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt, optional
Three fourths cup Buttermilk
One fourth cup Vegetable oil
4 tablespoon Cherry juice
1 Egg, beaten
1 teaspoon Almond extract
4 tablespoon Almonds, finely chopped
3 tablespoon Sugar

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease muffin cups.

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cherries, baking powder
and salt.

3. In a separate bowl, mix milk, oil, cherry juice, egg, and almond
extract.

4. Make a well in the dry ingredients and stir in liquid just to moisten.

5. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full.

6. Combine almonds and remaining sugar; sprinkle over batter.

7. Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes.

8. Cool 10 minutes before removing from muffin cups.

9. Makes 12 muffins

Recipe by: Nothin' but Muffins Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #661 by Diana
Stephens mdstephe@ix.netcom.com on Jul 8, 1997