Large Cranberry Orange Muffins

This morning, I baked these muffins for my wife to take to work. This is my third attempt in as many weeks. I'm finally quite happy with them. Here is the recipe...

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup Ocean Spray Craisins
• 1 tbsp flax seed (or egg replacer)
•  3/4 cup fresh orange juice
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tsp orange zest

Directions:

1. Combine the dry ingredients
2. Stir in Craisins
3. Grind the flax seed to a powder and whip with about the same amount of water until it looks like whipped egg.
4. Whisk the flax seed "egg" (or egg replacer) together with oil, zest, and fresh orange juice.
5. Stir wet ingredients into dry until just moistened. Add water as necessary to make batter just barely able to fall off a large spoon.
6. Spoon into greased muffin cups (3 1/2 inches at the top)
7. Sprinkle tops with cane sugar
8. Makes 6 large muffins
9. Bake in preheated moderately hot (375 degrees F) oven for 30 min or till tooth pick comes out clean and tops are golden brown
10. Cool for 10 minutes before gently removing to platter
11. Serve warm or cool

Tips: If you're using a smaller muffin tin, bake at 400 for 20 minutes. Don't try to remove muffins from tin right out of the oven; they're not firm enough.

Also, I baked a second batch that included chocolate chips. They were also good, but I prefer them without. You could also add chopped walnuts. I haven't tried that.