Muffins muffins muffins

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Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Hi, JD! I make lots of muffins. I use SR flour and baking powder, as I like them to rise lots. My main tip would be to measure out dry ingredients, then add the wet at the last minute, and get them in the oven. That way the raising ingredients retain all their oooomph!

My basic recipe:

300g SR flour
1Tbsp baking powder
80 g sugar (any kind - depends on other ingredients)

2 large eggs
220ml milk
100g melted butter

Pour into 12 muffin cases and bake at gas 6 for 30 mins. Eat fresh or freeze - they don't keep nearly as well as other cakes.

Favourite flavours:
2 bananas and 100g choc chips
100g raspberries, 100g white choc chips
200g blueberries, top with demerara
2Tbsp instant decaf coffee, mixed with splash of boiling water, 200g rough chopped walnuts.

HTH, Penny. x

I know this is an old post to quote but I had not read the whole thread before I was tempted to make these!

I have made them right this minute and oh my! Happy family faces tonight when everyone comes in! Thank you!

I added 100g asda basic dark choc bashed up into chips and the juice and zest of 2 oranges! Scrummy!

krlyr

Muffins and I just don't get along. Cupcakes, large cakes, brownies, biscuits, cookies..no problem. But every single attempt at muffins has failed miserable. I've followed recipes to the gram/degree (got an oven thermometer and everything) and my muffins come out stodgy and dry.
Any tips, please? Foolproof recipes? OH loves muffins and I'd love to whip up some choc chip muffins to stash in the freezer for handy snacks but I don't want to waste yet another bunch of ingredients on something I'll end up binning!

Sezzagirl

No special recipe but when you mix the ingrediants, do not over mix.

In fact, if anything, under mix it so you almost have little pockets of flour left

Seems strange but it helps!

sahararose

I use 10oz plain flour, 5 oz sugar, 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder, 4 HEAPED tablespoons cocoa powder (not drinking chocolate) and mix well in a bowl. Add 200g chopped chocolate.

In a jug melt 4oz butter/marg, and add 6 fl oz milk and 2 eggs, then beat well.

Then slowly pour the wet ingredients into the dry, mixing only until combined, really don't overmix. Then divide between about twelve muffin cases. Preheated oven at about gm 4-5 depending on your oven for 20 minutes.

You can actually smell when they're done. Keep checking towards the end because they're not great with burnt bits!

I've never had a failure with these yet, and it's one of those recipes you can just play around with, eg strawberries and white choc muffins.
HTH xx

kittycat204

My mum swears by this one, it's a bit of a throw it all in. Oil instead of solid fat which helps keep them moist.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/946/best-ever-muffins.aspx

MrsLK

Hi everyone,

I'd like to make some fruit muffins tonight, does anyone have a simple recipe? I've basically got a bag of mixed dried fruit to use and would rather make 12 muffins than one big cake!

Thanks in advance

L
xxx

Pink.

Have a look at this thread which has lots of recipes whch should help:

Muffins muffins muffins

I'll add this thread to that one later.

Pink

Pink.

I'm not mad about muffins but my kids love them so I make them quite often. I think the trick is to mix the wet ingredients together in one bowl and the dry ingredients in another bowl and combine the two just when you're ready to put them into the oven.

This thread might help:

Muffins muffins muffins

I'll add your post to that thread later to keep the ideas together.

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peachyprice

This is my own adaption of a Nigella recipe, it works every time and makes wonderfully rich, moist muffins:
185g Plain Flour
40g cocoa
1tbs baking powder
85g golden caster sugar
30g muscovado sugar
200g chocolate cut into smallish chunks (I use plain but milk, white or a mix of all 3 are equally good)
2 eggs
100ml sunflower oil
225ml milk

Mix all the dry ingredients sieving the flour with the cocoa and baking powder
In a separate bowl whisk the eggs and oil until frothy, gradually whisk in the milk.
Add the liquid to the dry ingredients, mixing only until just blended.

It’s a really runny batter, resembling thick chocolate milkshake, so don’t worry if you think it’s too thin, it isn’t.

Spoon into 12 paper cases in a muffin tin. Bake for 20 mins at 200c/gas mark 6.

Good luck!

krlyr

Thanks all, will give these a try at the weekend