Feel-good muffins

bbc good food buttermilk cake ground cinnamon muffins muscovado sugar pecan pecans porridge oat porridge oats prune prunes sunflower oil sweet snack

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Ingredients

175g self-raising flour

50g porridge oats

140g light muscovado sugar

2 tsp ground cinnamon

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 egg , beaten

150ml ¼ pint buttermilk

1 tsp vanilla extract

6 tbsp sunflower oil

175g stoned prune , chopped

85g pecans

Method

Heat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C. Butter 6-8 muffin tins or line them with muffin cases. Put the flour, oats, sugar, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda in a large bowl, then rub everything through your fingers, as if making pastry, to ensure the ingredients are evenly blended.

Beat the egg, then stir in the buttermilk, vanilla and oil. Lightly stir the egg mix into the flour.

Fold the prunes and nuts into the mixture.

Divide between the tins, filling the cases to the brim, then bake for 20-25 minutes until risen and golden. Serve warm or cold.