{"id":1804,"date":"2014-10-03T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T17:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2014-11-02T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T10:41:23","slug":"mini-little-christmas-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Mini Little Christmas Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I baked my first ever Christmas Cake today wohoo, but as you know you have to feed it so no eating until Christmas time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I really was craving to eat cake bit didn&#8217;t know what to bake? but whilst the Christmas cake was cooking in the oven it smelt so yummy and spicy which inspired me to find a recipe for&nbsp;Christmas style muffins&nbsp;which I did. I came across a recipe for mini fruit muffins and I thought this would be perfect. I made it Christmasy by adding the spices, I should have really got in there with some brandy but didn&#8217;t think of it at the time. Doesn&#8217;t mean you guys can&#8217;t ;).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI wanted to make use my mini muffin tin as I haven&#8217;t used the tin&nbsp;for a while and when there is mini cakes available people generally are more willing to having them as they are not as daunting as the normal sized ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These were moist and full of fruit, they did look a bit anaemic though. I liked them and they satisfied the craving of Christmas cake I was having.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/?attachment_id=1867\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1867\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1867\" src=\"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mini-xmas-muffins-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"mini xmas muffins\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mini-xmas-muffins-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mini-xmas-muffins-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/?attachment_id=1866\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1866\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1866\" src=\"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mini-xmas-muffins2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"mini xmas muffins2\" 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src=\"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mini-xmas-muffins7-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"mini xmas muffins7\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mini-xmas-muffins7-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mini-xmas-muffins7-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n    <div class=\"blog-yumprint-recipe blog-yumprint-standard    \" yumprintrecipe=\"jXx9\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Recipe\">\t<div class=\"blog-yumprint-recipe-title\" itemprop=\"name\">Mini Little Christmas Muffins<\/div>\t<div class=\"blog-yumprint-recipe-published\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">2014-10-04 14:21:16<\/div>\t<div class=\"blog-yumprint-header\">\t\t<div class='blog-yumprint-stars-reviews' itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AggregateRating\" color=\"#666666\" highlightcolor=\"#808080\" 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