I have nearly forgotten I have this recipe to publish. I have baked those muffins during Halloween time. If you try to make them I promise you will enjoy them even now. Barnbrack is traditional Irish Halloween cake usually baked with some hidden surprises so people who find coin, ring etc..could foreseen their future. Anyway it's very tasty. Packed with dried fruits and spices served with butter... yum. The recipe comes form
this website .
Ingredients for 12 barnbracks:
- 225g dried fruits (raisins and cranberries)
- 2 cups strong tea
- 55 ml warm milk
- 2 tsp dried yeast
- 2 tsp sugar
- 350g flour
- 80g sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp cloves
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1 egg
- 35g soft butter
- 1 tsp salt
Fruits place in a bowl and cover with tea. Leave them to soak overnight or at least one hour.
Pour milk into a cup add yeast and sugar stir well and set aside for 10 minutes.
In a meantime put the flour, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg into an electric mixer bowl and mix them until combined. Then make a well in the middle and pour in the yeast mixture add egg, butter and salt. Knead with hook attachment for about 10 minutes. After that time dough should be smooth.
Drain the fruits, chop them into smaller chunks. Add to the dough and knead until fruits are well incorporated.
Transfer the dough into a bowl, cover with cling film and set aside for minimum an hour to rise.
Grease muffin tin holes or round baking tin.
Transfer the dough on the worktop and knead it for a few minutes. Then divide into 12 pieces and place each dough ball into muffin tin hole. You can easily place whole piece of dough into round cake tin. Set aside to prove for 30 to 60 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 200C. Bake for 20 - 30 minutes for muffins or 35 - 45 minutes for cake.
Serve sliced with butter and hot tea.
Enjoy !
