St. Patrick’s Day is almost here, and I’ve been in the kitchen experimenting with a few new recipes to celebrate the holiday with.
One of which are these incredible Irish Soda Bread Muffins. Traditional Irish Soda Bread is usually made in a loaf with just flour, buttermilk, baking soda, and salt. But these Irish Soda Bread Muffins put a tasty twist on the traditional Irish fare.
By adding some honey and golden raisins, the muffins get a slightly sweet taste, while still maintaining a moist and heavenly texture that is typical of traditional Irish Soda Bread.
I let my kids help me make these, and I allowed them to add in some of their favorite additions, so they added some regular raisins, sunflower seeds and goji berries to a few of the muffins, which were quite tasty. :)
A few small adjustments make these muffins an ideal Weight Watchers St. Patrick’s Day Recipe to share. Best served warm, with coffee or tea.
IRISH SODA BREAD MUFFINS RECIPE
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup reduced fat buttermilk
- 4 tbsp light butter - (melted)
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ cup honey
- ½ cup golden raisins
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375. Mist a muffin pan with cooking spray.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and raisins.
- In another small bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, melted butter, egg, and honey.
- Gently combine the wet and dry ingredients, stirring just until combined as over-stirring will cause the muffins to have a tough texture).
- Spoon the stiff batter into the muffin pan, filling the cups about 3/4 cup full.
- Bake the muffins for about 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let muffins cool in pan for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire cooling rack.
8 Comments
This looks delicious…I’m going to try it this year. I do have one question though. You have “1/ cup of honey.” Is that supposed to be 1 cup or a fraction of a cup?
For the Irish Soda Bread Muffins: how much honey should be used? It lists “1/ ” with the second number missing. Thanks!
Yikes! Typo!! Thanks for catching that everyone…it is 1/3 cup honey. I’ve updated it in the recipe.
How much honey did you use in the Irish Soda Bread Muffins? Recipe has 1/
How much honey for the recipe? It says “1/ cup honey”
Thanks!
Jessica
How much honey? It says 1/?
Hi – This recipe sounds great! Especially because we are having an Irish Soda Bread bake-off at work on Monday and I am following Weight Watchers! My question is, how much honey do you use? I’m not sure if it is 1 cup or if there is supposed to be a number after the “1/” in the ingredients. Thanks for your help!! I can’t wait to try the muffins!
Can you confirm the measurement for the honey? Is it 1 cup or 1/2 cup? Thank you.