Lime muffins with kiwi, pomegranate and strawberry jam filling

I'm still using up the last of the sweet salsas from the Mexican dessert the other night - this recipe uses the microwave to make a quick and easy jam out of diced kiwi fruit, strawberries and pomegranate.  It takes a while to cool down so you need to make it at least an hour before the muffins to give the jam time to cool.  And make sure you use a really big bowl in the microwave as the jam bubbles up really high!

Ingredients

For the jam

4 kiwi fruit, diced

½ a punnet of strawberries, diced

Seeds of 1 pomegranate

Zest and juice of 1 lime

6 oz preserving or jam sugar (or caster sugar)

For the muffin mixture

2 eggs

4 oz margarine

6 oz caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

Zest of 1 lime

8 oz self-raising flour

2 oz ground almonds

1 tsp baking powder

4 tbsp Greek yogurt

Juice of half a lime

For decoration

Icing sugar
Edible pink sprinkles

Method

1. Strain the fruit over a sieve and set aside the juices for the icing.
2. To make the jam, mix all the ingredients in a very large, microwaveable bowl and microwave on full power for 6 mins.  Remove and stir well before microwaving again for another 5 mins.  Set aside to cool for an hour.
3. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.  Place 12 muffin cases in muffin tins.
4. Beat the eggs.
5. In a separate, large mixing bowl, cream the margarine and caster sugar until fluffy.
6. Beat in the eggs, then add the vanilla essence and lime zest and beat well.
7. Sift in the flour, baking powder and ground almonds and beat.
8. Fold in the Greek yogurt and lime juice.
9. Put 1 ½ tsp of the cake mixture into each of the muffin cases. 
10. Drop 1 ½ tsp of jam on top of the cake mixture in each case, followed by the remaining cake mixture.
11. Bake for 20 mins or so. 
12. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 mins before carefully removing to a wire rack. 
13. Make a thin icing by sifting icing sugar into the fruit juices reserved at the beginning and beating well with a wooden spoon. 
14. Once the muffins have cooled, drizzle with the icing and decorate with pink sprinkles.