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Muffins are a delicious way to start out a morning. With your favorite cup of coffee, tea or juice a healthy quick breakfast is within reach. The French phrase “trios laits” and the Mexican phrase “tres leches” means three milks. For this almond muffin recipe is prepared with three different milk type products.

Take a little time out over the weekend to prepare tres leches almond muffins for your family. They will be on a covered platter or cake dish ready for the following morning. Everyone gets a wholesome, healthy and tasty muffin for breakfast so all of you can enjoy a quiet morning at the table together.

Ingredients:

4 cups of flour

4 teaspoons of baking powder

1 ½ cups of sugar

1 cup of softened butter (not melted)

2 teaspoons of almond extract

2/3 cup of whipping cream

2/3 cup of milk

2/3 cup of sweetened condensed milk

2 cups of sliced almonds

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400’.

Grease two muffins trays with either Crisco or spray with Pam. This can be eliminated if you have muffin liners on hand.

In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until smooth,

Then add the eggs and almond extract until combined.

Add baking powder to mixing bowl, include all three milk products and then add the flour a little at a time until well blended.

Next, toss in 1 ½ cups of sliced almonds and fold them into the almond muffin batter using a rubber spatula.

Once all the muffin liners are filled 2/3 high in the pan. Take the remaining almond slices and sprinkle the nuts over the top of the batter prior to placing the pans in the oven.

Bake for 15 – 25 minutes or until muffin tops are lightly golden brown in color.

Remove muffin trays from oven and place on cooling rack. Allow 10 minutes to pass before removing muffins from pan.

Transfer almond tres leches muffins from muffin pan to cooling rack. Allow to cool for 20 minutes before serving. Muffins will still be quite warm. Or, allow to cool completely before serving.

Enjoy!

Suggestions:

Vanilla extract can be used in place of the almond if you prefer less of a nutty taste.

If almonds are not your nut of choice then feel free to substitute it with the one preferred. Pecans, hazelnuts and cashews are a few delicious choices.

Any muffin can have butter spread inside once cut open. These almond tres leches muffins are so packed with flavor one will want to eat them right out the oven without any additional spreads or toppings.

You can always add 1/4 cup of any chopped fruit that you love into the batter to give these muffins a little extra flavor.

Buy your ingredients locally by stopping in at the SuperValu, Wal-mart or Krogers in your neighborhood.

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