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Basic Muffins

A basic muffin mixture that can easily be adjusted to many variations.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings: 12
Course: Baking
Cuisine: Western
Ingredients Method Notes

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

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven 190 C.
  2. Line muffin trays with muffin papers.
  3. In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, bicarb and any other dry ingredients (cocoa, choc chips, coconut etc)
  4. Combine milk, butter, eggs and any other wet ingredients( golden syrup, honey etc)
  5. Stir the two mixtures together with any extra ingredients (fruit) until just combined, don't overmix.
  6. Spoon into muffin cases and bake for approximately 25 minutes or until cooked.
  7. Cool in pans for 10 minutes then remove to cool on a rack.
Variations
  1. Chocolate Chip - add 1 cup chocolate chips to dry mix.
  2. 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)
  3. Blueberry - add 100 gm fresh or frozen blueberries or any berries.
  4. Apple and Cinnamon - Add 1 can diced pie apples and 1 tsp cinnamon to mixture and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar when in muffin tins.
  5. Butterscotch - Substitute sugar with brown sugar add 1 Tbsp golden syrup and 1 cup white chocolate chips.
  6. Lemon and Coconut - Add 1/2 cup coconut and the grated rind and juice of 1 lemon.

Notes

If freezing wrap individually in glad wrap then store in an airtight container or bag in the freezer.
The flavour combinations are endless.
This recipe can be halved easily, I quite often make 2 half batches of different flavours giving 6 of each flavour.