• In a bowl, mix together the cranberry sauce, apple juice (or water) and sugar until well combined.
• Also add vanilla extract and oil to the cranberry sauce mixture, stir well.
• Take the all purpose flour in a different, large bowl.
• Also add the baking powder and salt to the flour, mix together so they are evenly mixed with the flour.
• Pour the cranberry sauce mixture to the dry flour mixture, mix well until all ingredients are well combined to form the muffin batter.
• The batter is slightly thick but it shouldn't be too thick and you should be able to pour it to the muffin pan without difficulty.
• If you feel the batter is too thick, you may add little more of apple juice or water, one tablespoon at a time, and mix well with the batter to achieve the right consistency of muffin batter.
• If you are adding chocolate chips, also add chocolate chips to the batter and gently mix in to combine the chocolate chips evenly with the batter!

To make the muffins:

• Preheat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit.
• Prepare a muffin pan (I used silicone muffin pan) and drop the muffin batter in the moulds. Fill the batter for only about ¾th of the muffin moulds as the muffins will rise up as they bake. Add all the batter to the muffin moulds evenly.
• Bake for about 30 to 34 minutes until a toothpick inserted at the center of the muffins comes out clean.
• Once the muffins are baked, immediately transfer from the hot oven and allow the baked muffins to cool down.
• Enjoy as it is with hot coffee, tea or milk or enjoy with any frosting as you like. We like to enjoy these cranberry sauce muffins with a little honey or maple syrup on top.