Sure, a basket of plush red raspberries, unadorned, is a pretty perfect snack. But those little guys will also transform a summer dessert -- or drink, or even a savory salad or entree. How do you take your raspberries?
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The ingredients for the muffins: raspberries, buttermilk, egg, sea salt, sugar, creme fraiche, baking soda, vanilla butter and flour (plus baking powder, which didn't make it into the shot).
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Concentrating very hard on cutting up the butter.
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A river of melting butter.
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After a few minutes, specks will start to form, and you have brown butter!
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Sifting the dry ingredients is one of the techniques that keeps these muffins light and downy.
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Don't you just want to dive into this pile of creme fraiche?
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Folding the brown butter into the batter.
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And then the dry ingredients.
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Time to add lots of plump raspberries.
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Amanda gets ready to fill the muffin cups (we lined them with paper for easy removal).
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They're beautiful even before they're baked.
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These smelled amazing when they came out of the oven.