Cranberry-Pecan Muffins

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2011, America's Test Kitchen TV

Most cranberry-nut-muffin recipes call for loading sour berries and chopped nuts into any old batter. Could that be why they always seem out of whack?

SERVES Makes 12 muffins

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 30 minutes resting

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To tame the harsh bite of the cranberries found in most cranberry-nut muffins, we chopped the cranberries in a food processor and tossed them with confectioners’ sugar and a little salt (which we often use to tame the bitterness in eggplant...

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