Currant& Oatmeal Muffins

Ingredients

110 gr butter softened
130 gr sugar
5 eggs
1/2 orange
4 gr vanilla
130 gr flour
80 gr quick-cooking oats
9 gr baking powder
5 gr pumpkin pie spice
220 gr currants
120 gr walnuts
1 cinnamon sugar

Instructions

Beat together first 5 ingredients until blended. Mix together the next 6 ingredients and beat in until dry ingredients are just moistened. Do not overbeat. Divide batter between dozen paper-lined muffins cups and sprinkle tops with cinnamon sugar. Bake in a 375 degree oven for about 25 minutes, or until a cake test, inserted in center, comes out clean. Cool in pan for a few minutes, and then continue cooling on a rack. Yields: dozen muffins. SOURCE: Coffee Cakes and Quick Breads by Renny Darling.