Cranberry Mandarin Muffins

by Jen Kwan, on muffin, breakfast, orange, cranberry, baking

Cranberry + orange is one of my favourite flavour combinations especially when baked into breakfast sweets such as muffins, scones, and quickbreads. These are modified from this recipe using ingredients that I had on hand. Since I did not have oranges or orange juice, I substituted in seasonal mandarin oranges. After the oranges were zested I peeled them, blended the flesh, and "juiced" them through a fine sieve. It seemed like…