Carioca Spice Muffins

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200º C.
2. Take refined flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, soda, cinnamon powder, ginger, mace, almonds, walnuts and salt in a bowl and mix well.
3. Take buttermilk, eggs and butter in another bowl and whisk well.
4. Make a well in the middle of the dry mixture and pour the wet mixture into it, a little at a time, and whisk to make a thick batter.
5. Grease steel bowls with butter and line them with butter paper. Arrange the bowls on a baking tray. Fill 2 tbsps batter in each bowl.
6. Keep the baking tray in the preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes. To check when it is done, insert a toothpick which should come out clean.
7. Take the tray out of the oven and let the muffins cool a little.
8. Demould, arrange them in a serving platter and serve.

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