Ginger muffins with plums whole spelt flour and oats

This is very aromatic autumn recipe. The cake is spicy, moist and deliciously sweet wit sour bits of plums. The recipe comes from BBC GoodFood wall calendar. 

Ingredients for 12 muffins:

• 140g butter or margarine
• 100g brown sugar
• 100g golden syrup or honey
• 6 plums (about 250g)
• 140g whole spelt flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp ginger
• 1 tbsp crystallised ginger
• 85g oats
• 2 eggs

Line muffin tin with paper cases. Preheat the oven to 180C.

Put the butter, sugar and golden syrup into a sauce pan and heat it up until all ingredients melt together.

In a meantime chop the crystallised ginger and set aside.

Cut the plums into quarters. Set aside. 

When all ingredients are melted add the flour, baking powder, salt,, ginger, chopped ginger, oats and eggs. Stir all ingredients together until well combined. Spoon the batter into paper cases up to 3/4 full. Set aside about 2 tablespoons of batter.

On top of each muffin place chunks if plums.

Ingredients for the crumble:

• 25g flour
• 25g oats
• 2 tsp chopped ginger

 The flour, oats and ginger place in a small bowl add the remaining batter and stir well. Sprinkle over each muffin top. Mine crumble was too dry :(

 Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.

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