How to Make Blood-Curdling Muffins for Halloween

Grab your magic wand, and make some blood-curdling muffins for Halloween. They may look unusual, but there's nothing scary about these yummy, bright red muffins. Make plenty, because blood curdling muffins are so delicious that your guests will scream for more.

Things You'll Need

• 1 2/3 cups persimmons, pureed
• 2 mixing bowls
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• Wooden spoon
• 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• Electric mixer
• Red food coloring
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
• 2 tsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 2/3 cup red currants
• Paper muffin cups
• Muffin tin
• Plastic bugs

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.

2. Put the pureed persimmons in a small mixing bowl, and stir in the baking soda with a wooden spoon.

3. Combine the butter and sugar together in a separate mixing bowl, and cream them with an electric mixer. Stir in two or three drops of red food coloring.

4. Beat the eggs into the butter and sugar one at a time, and mix well.

5. Stir the persimmon mixture into the butter-and-egg mixture, and blend in the vanilla and lemon juice. Add the flour, cinnamon and salt, and stir the batter with a spoon, just until the dry ingredients are dampened.

6. Stir the currents into the muffin batter.

7. Spoon the batter into a paper-lined muffin tin, filling them about three-quarters full. Bake them for 45 minutes, and allow them to cool on a wire rack. Put a plastic bug on top of each cooled blood-curdling muffin and serve.