Corn muffins with dried apricots

Cupcakes with cornmeal and pieces of dried apricots are cooked in butter, completely without the addition of liquid. The dough is dense, wet - a classic muffin. I also like this cake for its bright color. Ready-made corn muffins are covered with turmeric sugar icing.

Ingredients

• Butter - 150 g for dough + 20 g for greasing molds
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Dried apricots - 150 g
• Sugar - 150 g
• Corn flour - 100 g
• Wheat flour of the highest grade - 70 g
• Baking powder - 1 teaspoon without a slide
• For glaze:
• Ground turmeric - 1 teaspoon without a slide
• Powdered sugar - 50 g
• Vanillin - 1/4 teaspoon
• Water or lemon juice - 20-25 ml

Directions

1. Prepare food.
2. Remove the eggs and butter from the refrigerator and leave at room temperature for about 1 hour.
3. The dough cooks quickly, so when the butter becomes soft, immediately turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees. And you can start preparing the dough.
4. Rinse the apricots and cut into small pieces.
5. Beat soft butter with sugar for about 1 minute.
6. Add eggs and beat until smooth, about 2 more minutes.
7. Enter dried apricots, mix with a spoon.
8. Add sifted cornmeal.
9. Stir with a spoon.
10. Then add the sifted wheat flour and baking powder.
11. Stir the dough.
12. Pour batter into greased cupcake liners, filling them 2/3 full. I oiled the molds just in case, but if you are 100% sure of your shape, you can not do this.
13. Place the cupcakes in the preheated oven and bake at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes.
14. Check the readiness of the cupcakes with a sharp wooden stick - it should come out clean from the dough.
15. Let the cupcakes cool in the molds for 5 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool a little more.
16. Meanwhile, prepare the frosting. Mix powdered sugar, vanilla and turmeric. Start introducing a teaspoon of water (or lemon juice), mixing the mass well. The icing should be like low-fat sour cream.
17. Brush the still warm dried apricot corn muffins with the prepared turmeric icing and let cool completely.
18. Cook with pleasure!