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Showing posts with label muffins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muffins. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Cranberry Muffins

 Muffins are what we call a "quick" bread and you can see why when you make these Cranberry Muffins. These are delicious muffins either warm from the oven or at room temperature. Your kids will love them in their lunchboxes or as an after school snack with a tall glass of milk. I am going out to lots of places this summer like parks, swimming pools etc. These are so great to bring with you as  snacks. My friend Oksana gave me this recipe. When we were flying on the plane she brought these muffins and shared with us. I asked her for recipe and now I can share with everybody. 


      Ingredients:
4 eggs
1.5 cups sugar
2 sticks of melted butter  or margarine 
1 cup sour cream
2 tsp vodka
1tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tbs vinegar
2 tsp vanilla
3.5 cups flour
3/4 cup cranberries 

Before starting: put cranberries in boiled water. It will make em really soft.
Mix eggs with sugar like for 2 min.
Add melted butter.
Add sour cream and vodka.
Add  baking soda pour vinegar on top.
Mix flour with baking powder.
Add half  flour , mix and add the rest of flour.
Add cranberries. Mix
Put batter in oiled muffin pan. It makes 24 small and 6 med muffins.
Bake on 325F about 25-30 min.  There is no cream recipe for muffins, I added some for decoration.
                                   Enjoy!!!


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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Ricotta Savory Muffins for Breakfast

This is the yummiest breakfast ever. Very healthy too.

Ingredients:
3 eggs
3 tbs whipping cream
2 cups ricotta (tvorog)
1 cup Alex meat bologna or Oscar Meyers wieners
3/4 cup green onion
Colby Jack for topping



Cut meat into small cubes.
Put eggs into a bowl add salt.
Add whipping cream. Mix.
Add ricotta.
Add  meat.
Add green onion.
Put in muffin baking dish.
Bake on 350F for 25-30 min.
Or use ramekins.
Enjoy!!!



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Thursday, December 26, 2013

A little break from the Christmas recipes Muffins cupcakes for every day use

It seems the line between what counts as a muffin and what as a cupcake is blurry. The dictionary tells me that muffins are sweet breads, leavened with baking powder or baking soda and baked in cup-shaped tins, while cupcakes are cakes leavened and baked in the same way.

I suppose the following – my own recipe – falls somewhere in between the two. It is a cake recipe, but I have added a bread ingredient: whole-wheat flour.

Basic recipe:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
50 g margarine or butter, melted
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
Enough milk to make a thick batter, usually about 2/3 cup

12 paper muffin cups
1 12 muffin baking tray (mine came from Ikea)

Mix flour, sugar and baking powder in a bowl. Add egg, milk, vanilla and melted margarine and stir into a thick batter. Put paper muffin forms into the cups in the baking tray and fill each to 2/3 full with batter. Bake at 190°C (180°C if you have a convection oven), for about 20-30 minutes, or until the cakes are golden and a pin stuck in one of them comes out clean. These cakes are moist, delicious and not too sweet, and will keep for several days.

Cooled muffins can be spread with lemon or cocoa icing.

Variations:

Berry muffins:
1 cup berries, may be frozen (I love bilberry muffins, but mixed wild berries are also good in muffins)

Fill each muffin cup to 1/3 full with batter. Divide the berries evenly between the cups and top with the rest of the batter.

White muffins with chocolate chips:
1/2 to 1 cup chocolate chips, depending on how rich you want the muffins to be.

Fold gently into the batter and prepare as indicated in the basic recipe.

Double chocolate muffins:
Make dough with 3 tbs dark cocoa powder and ½ cup chocolate chips, white, dark or mixed.

Jam muffins:
Fill each muffin cup to 1/3 full with batter. Put a teaspoon of your favourite jam in the centre of each blob of batter and top with the rest of the batter.

Cinnamon muffins:
Mix together 1/2 cup sugar and 2 tsp powdered cinnamon and sprinkle on top of the batter before you bake the muffins.

Cinnamon-raisin muffins:
Add 1/2 cup raisins to the batter and top with cinnamon-sugar before baking.

They taste even better the day after you make them.
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