Baking
Basic Muffin Mixture
Oct
Muffins are a quick and easy baked treat, they are best eaten on the day of baking but they freeze well making them a great lunchbox addition, just pop them in the lunchbox frozen and they will be thawed by recess.
This is a base recipe that you can add whatever fruit or flavours that you prefer or have on hand. I have given few suggestions but the combinations are endless, the most important thing is not to over beat as this will cause them to be heavy.
This recipe will make 12 medium muffins but you can make them in the jumbo tins or mini tins by adjusting the cooking time accordingly, I also often make 2 half batch’s of different flavours at once.
Replacing the flour with gluten free flour is an option and converts well, my gluten free flour of choice is Aldi, I find it doesn’t have the after taste many gluten free flours have and can be replaced cup for cup.
Basic Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 Cups Self Raising Flour
- 1 tsp Bicarb Soda
- 1/2 Cup Sugar
- 100 gm Butter melted
- 2 Eggs
- 1 Cup Milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven 190 C.
- Line muffin trays with muffin papers.
- In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, bicarb and any other dry ingredients (cocoa, choc chips, coconut etc)
- Combine milk, butter, eggs and any other wet ingredients( golden syrup, honey etc)
- Stir the two mixtures together with any extra ingredients (fruit) until just combined, don't overmix.
- Spoon into muffin cases and bake for approximately 25 minutes or until cooked.
- Cool in pans for 10 minutes then remove to cool on a rack.
Variations
- Chocolate Chip – add 1 cup chocolate chips to dry mix.
- Banana – Substitute sugar with brown sugar and add 2 mashed ripe bananas and 1 Tbsp golden syrup (may not need all the milk in basic recipe)
- Blueberry – add 100 gm fresh or frozen blueberries or any berries.
- Apple and Cinnamon – Add 1 can diced pie apples and 1 tsp cinnamon to mixture and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar when in muffin tins.
- Butterscotch – Substitute sugar with brown sugar add 1 Tbsp golden syrup and 1 cup white chocolate chips.
- Lemon and Coconut – Add 1/2 cup coconut and the grated rind and juice of 1 lemon.
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