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Eggless Jam Doughnut Muffins

I came across these jam doughnuts in the guise of muffins at Lorraine's blog, Not Quite Nigella. I'm sure most of us love doughnuts (or donuts) and I have some very [fond doughnut memories](http:/

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 1/2 tsps baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2/3 cup caster sugar (or finely powdered sugar)
  • 3/4 tsp cinnamon powder
  • 1 tbsp flax seed water powder in 3 tbsp warm
  • 3/4 cup buttermilk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 tsps strawberry jam

Instructions
 

  • Take two dry bowls.
  • In one bowl, put all the dry ingredients (the first five ingredients on the list) and mix well with a fork.
  • In the other bowl, put all the wet ingredients except the strawberry jam (the next four ingredients) and whisk together lightly.
  • Now pour the mixed liquid into the dry ingredients and fold everything with a light hand till just mixed. Mix only till just combined.
  • Remember these are muffins, so over mixing will result in tough tasteless muffins. A lumpy batter, showing slight streaks of flour is fine.
  • Spoon a heaped teaspoonful of batter into greased muffin pans/ or pans lined with cupcake liners. Using the wrong end of a spoon, make a small depression in the centre of the batter. Do not make these depressions too deep or the jam may leak out. The muffins will still taste good but not look very nice.
  • Fill each depression with about 1/3 tsp of strawberry jam. Cover this with remaining muffin batter.
  • Bake at 180C for 25 minutes till light brown on top and a skewer/ knife inserted into the side of the muffin comes out clean.
  • Cool on a rack.
  • I chose to leave my muffins plain as I don't like them very sweet. For this reason, I added the cinnamon powder to the batter.
  • For a very "doughnut" feel, you should brush the tops of the warm muffins with melted butter and then roll them in a mixture of powdered sugar and cinnamon powder. Please see the original recipe for instructions to do this.

Notes

The original recipe says 6 muffins but I got 8 muffins.