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Crazy-Fun Cranberry Learning + An Orange Cranberry Muffins Recipe

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Crazy Fun Cranberry Learning + an awesome Orange Cranberry Muffins Recipe - perfect for Fall
Thank you to Ocean Spray® for sponsoring this blog post.  All opinions are my own.  Please see my disclosure policy.

I have to admit…  When I was a kid, I passed on the cranberry sauce at the Thanksgiving table.  That tin can-shaped mound of maroon looked less than appetizing.  And I let that cloud my judgment of cranberry anything for most of my childhood years.

But when I tried my first Ocean Spray® Cranberry Juice Cocktail in my teens, my world opened to the bright taste of cranberry.  And I was hooked.

So when Ocean Spray® invited my Priscilla and me to join them in New York City’s Rockefeller Center® to celebrate the first day of Fall – and the bicentennial of the first cultivated cranberry harvest – I was giddy with excitement!

Miss Priscilla at the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom in NYC

(Psst… Looking for the delicious Orange Cranberry Muffins Recipe?  It’s down below, right after our Cranberry Classroom fun.) 

Our Crazy Fun Cranberry Learning in NYC

On Thursday, September 22, Ocean Spray® set up a “Cranberry Classroom” for visitors to learn everything imaginable about the cranberry – complete with a 1,500 square foot cranberry bog right in the middle of Rockefeller Center®.

Throughout the day, wandering tourists, local families, and NYC professionals chatted with real cranberry growers and their families and experienced The Most Beautiful Harvest through virtual reality.

The Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom in NYC

In the afternoon, a handful of mama bloggers and their kiddos (including me and Priscilla!) were welcomed into the “Cranberry Classroom.”  We were met with some delicious cranberry snacks and treats.  From celery sticks topped with cream cheese and Ocean Spray® Craisins® Dried Cranberries to turkey wraps with delicious cranberry sauce for dipping and more.

Eating our snacks at the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom in NYC

Then Priscilla got to explore the taste, health, and heritage of the awesome berry through a series of super fun educational activities.

Learning about Cranberries in the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom in NYC

 

P playing a timeline game while learning about the History of Cranberries in the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom in NYC

First, Miss P entered “History Class” where she and her new “classmates” learned about the fascinating 200-year history of the cranberry and played a timeline game to test their new knowledge.

Checking out the virtual harvest at the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom in NYC

Next, she made her way to “Technology Class” to experience a cranberry bog and cranberry harvesting through virtual reality.

Priscilla putting on her waders to get in the cranberry bog at the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom in NYC

 

Priscilla got to get right in the cranberry bog at the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom in NYC

 

Priscilla was so stinking excited to be in the cranberry bog at the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom

Then, Priscilla had some hands-on “Heritage” learning when she put some waders on and headed into the cranberry bog.

Priscilla with a Cranberry Grower in the cranberry bog at the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom

 

Miss P raking cranberries in the cranberry bog at the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom-1

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen her smile so big.  She exclaimed,

“I’m definitely giong to be a cranberry farmer when I grow up!”

Making a Bog In a Cup at the Ocean Spray #CranberryClassroom in NYC

Finally, Miss Priscilla moved on to “Science Class” where she and her new friends learned about the cranberry’s root system and made their own Bog-In-A-Cup.

Priscilla planting her Bog-In-A-Cup at the Ocean Spray Cranberry Classroom

Experience The Most Beautiful Harvest with Your Kids, Too!

Whether you’re homeschooling and learning about fruits and/or agriculture, are a teacher wanting to expand her class’ learning, or just want to show your kids something really neat…  You’ve got to try this!  

Ocean Spray® launched the “Most Beautiful Harvest” experience in 2015 using Oculus Rift technology so you can visit www.OSharvest.com to get your own fully immersive, 360-degree views of a cranberry bog.

Then Make Some Orange Cranberry Muffins

After you’ve learned about the cranberry’s journey from bog to cup, have the kids help make a cranberry snack.  These Orange Cranberry Muffins are the perfect sweet treat to get the kids excited about cranberries.  (And to pop in their lunch boxes, too!)

Orange Cranberry Muffins Recipe

Seriously awesome Orange Cranberry Muffins - perfect for a Fall snack - at B-Inspired Mama

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz. unsalted butter
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • zest of one orange
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • ¾ tsp. baking soda
  • ¾ tsp. baking powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ¼ cup sour cream
  • ¾ cup Ocean Spray® Craisins® Dried Cranberries

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350F.
Using your fingers, rub the orange zest into the sugar.
Adding orange zest to Orange Cranberry Muffins
With a mixer, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Add in the vanilla, then the eggs one at a time and mix until each is incorporated.
In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
Add half of the flour mixture, then half of the sour cream to the egg-butter mixture, then repeat.
Fold the Ocean Spray® Craisins® Dried Cranberries into the batter.
Adding Ocean Spray Craisins Dried Cranberries to Orange Cranberry Muffins
Portion the muffin batter into a lined muffin tin using a 1/4 cup measuring cup.
Bake 20 minutes until cream-colored and muffin tops spring back when touched.
Yummy Orange Cranberry Muffins Recipe

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Crazy Fun Cranberry Learning + an awesome Orange Cranberry Muffins Recipe - perfect for Fall

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Thank you to Ocean Spray® for sponsoring this blog post. All opinions are my own.

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About Krissy of B-Inspired Mama

Former M.Ed Art Teacher. Current Blogger & Social Media Influencer. Always Crazy & Creative Mama of 3.

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  1. tanya says

    October 13, 2016 at 3:59 PM

    What a fun day! I bet it was a great experience! I am going to have to try those muffins, they look so good 🙂

    Reply
    • Krissy @ B-Inspired Mama says

      October 18, 2016 at 7:00 AM

      Oh, it really was! One she’ll never forget. Let me know if you try the recipe!

      Reply
  2. Antoinette says

    September 30, 2016 at 10:01 AM

    That little girl is so cute!

    Reply
    • Krissy @ B-Inspired Mama says

      October 1, 2016 at 10:42 AM

      Awe! Thank you. 🙂

      Reply

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