jam filled almond muffins

disclaimer: this post includes rants about school. if you don't want to be stressed out you can skip to the recipe at the bottom. ;)
there's nothing like soft and tender muffins that are super easy to make. this particular muffin falls into that category and i am telling you, you can whip this treat up really, really fast.

okay, so i missed last week's muffin monday because i was ridiculously busy. school's crazy, man. it's seriously kickin' my butt, however, i decided to do some baking in between reading super long essays and articles to prevent me from pulling all my hair out. you see, this is quite a stressful semester for me, not because all of my classes are super hard, but most of them requires so much reading and writing. normally, i would just have one writing and reading intensive class, but this semester i have two and i am taking them online which makes it doubly hard. i am an immigrant for chrissakes, i am all englished out. i need to replenish my diminishing vocabulary. as i was saying, this recipe is super easy. it literally took me 14 minutes from getting the ingredients from the pantry to putting the muffin pan into the oven ( i really did time it). i did it again another time and took longer the next time because i had to figure out what spice would go well with all the ingredients i have dumped into the bowl already. thinking about it, i am not sure if it was really super quick to prepare of if it was because i put a time limit on myself due to the papers scattered on the dining table waiting to be read. hmmm... that's something to think about. oh wait, i can't think about that right now since there's so much other school stuff that needs to be done. omg, i am going crazy.
okay before you shoot me, here's the recipe.

jam filled almond muffins

ingredients:

1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup almond flour/almond meal
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup melted butter
2/3 cup milk
2 eggs
1 tsp grated lemon zest
1/2 cup jam (i used strawberry)

instructions:

1. preheat oven to 400 F.

2. in a large bowl, combine flour, cornstarch, almond flour/meal, sugar, nutmeg, baking powder and salt.

3. in another bowl, combine melted butter, eggs, milk and lemon zest.

4. add the butter mixture into the flour mixture and stir only until combined. do not overmix or you'll end up with tough muffins. you don't want that.

5. line your muffin pan with paper liners and fill each mold 2/3 of the way and add a teaspoon of jam.

6. bake for 20 minutes or until the top is golden an toothpick comes out clean when inserted.

eat while it's a lil warm and spread some nutella over it. trust me with the nutella. have fun!!!
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