- 1/2 cup [115 g] butter or margarine
- 1 cup [200 g] sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups [280 g] unsifted flour
- 2 teaspoons [10 mL] baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon [2.5 mL] salt
- 1/2 cup [125 mL] walnuts
- 1/2 cup [125 mL] raisins
- 1/2 cup [125 mL] milk
- 1 teaspoon [5 mL] vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups [625 mL] blueberries
or
1 1/4 cups [310 mL] fresh strawberries
- 2 teaspoons [10 g] sugar, to sprinkle
- 12 well-drained Maraschino cherries, to decorate
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- Preheat oven to 400°F [200°C].
- On low speed of an electric beater, cream butter or margarine and sugar until fluffy.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time, until blended.
- Sift together unsifted flour, baking powder and salt; mix in chopped walnuts and raisins.
- Add to first mixture, alternately with already mixed together milk and vanilla.
- Mash 1/2 cup [125 mL] of the blueberries or strawberries; by hand, stir mashed and whole blueberries or strawberries into dough.
- Grease muffin cups and top of muffin tins as well.
- Pile dough high into each muffin cup.
- Sprinkle dough with sugar; top each with a cherry.
- Bake into preheated oven, for approximately 20 minutes.
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