Basic Muffins
A basic muffin mixture that can easily be adjusted to many variations.
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.
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.
