How to Make Muffins
Sure, you probably already know how to make muffins, but have you tried making them with cheese, poppy seeds, or oatmeal? There are so many different ways you can dress up an everyday muffin and turn it into a culinary masterpiece. By adding just a few unusual ingredients to this basic muffin recipe, your muffins can go from sweet to savory or from breakfast to dinner.Muffins were "invented" when home cooks decided to separate their quick-bread batter into smaller portions rather than cook it all in a single pan. The smaller breads or "muffin cakes" cooked much faster than a large pan of batter, and the muffins were easier to carry and less crumbly than a slice of quick bread.
Transcript
Hi! It's Miranda with recipe.com and today I'm gonna show
you how to make Muffins. Now, once you have this
basic muffin recipe down, you can make all sorts of
delicious muffin combinations. This is just a great, simple muffin
batter recipe. So, without further adieu, let's get baking. I
have our ingredients all laid out here. We're going to
begin with
1-3/4 cup of all-purpose flour, 1/3 cup of sugar, 2
teaspoons of baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, 1 egg
(beaten), 3/4 cup of milk, and 1/4 cup of cooking
oil. So, we are going to begin. I'm just gonna
grab my dry ingredients here and we're just gonna-- gonna
pop them together, so the baking powder and the salt.
And, I'm just gonna give this just like a nice
little mix,
just until they're all combined. Now, we're just gonna make
a well in the center, so you can use your
fingers or you can just, you know, use the spatula
but you're just gonna make a well for our wet
ingredients eventually to be added into. Okay, perfect. Speaking of
the wet ingredients, let's put our egg, oil, and milk
in this larger bowl here. And, we're just gonna mix
this together until it's nice and combine.
I find that the whisk works really well for this
purpose. You may notice sometimes that oil can be a
little bit fussy and does it always want to play
well with others, so whisk would really help everything to
combine. Now, what we're going to do is combine these
two. So, we are just going to pour the wet
ingredients right into that well. They're right into the middle.
Look at that. And, we are just gonna stir this
until the dry ingredients are moisten. This batter will be
lumpy and that's
totally okay because we don't want to over mix. We're
just gonna gently stir this until it's all combined and
all the flour and those dry ingredients are nice and
wet. And look at that. As you see we've got
lumps, that's perfectly okay. That's gonna happen here. This is
what your batter should look like, a little bit lumpy
but nice and combined. So, our oven is behind me.
It's preheated at 400 degrees and I have this muffin
tin right here which is already been greased or you
could use little,
you know, muffin papers, little cupcake holders if you want
them instead. And, just using the spoon, I'm gonna fill
these each with 2/3 of the weight full. And then,
once they're filled I'm going to pop them in the
oven for 18 to 20 minutes until I can insert
like a toothpick in the center and it comes out
nice and clean. And then, we'll let them cool in
a wire rack and we'll be ready to enjoy our
muffins. Alright, so my muffins are out of the oven.
I transferred them here to this wire rack, so that
they can cool. They look how beautiful,
delicious. If you allow them just to cool in the
muffin tins themselves, it would just continue to cook. Obviously,
the tin is metal and it holds that heat, so
they continue to cook as they cool. So, that's why
it's important to just pop them out. Put them on
a nice, cool wire rack like this and let them
cool and there you have it. That's how you make
Muffins.
What You'll Need
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg, beaten
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup cooking oil
- 1 recipe Streusel Topping (optional for plain and sweet variations)
Step By Step
1
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease twelve 2-1/2-inch muffin cups or line with paper bake cups; set aside. In a medium bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in center of flour mixture; set aside.
2
In another bowl combine egg, milk, and oil. Add egg mixture all at once to flour mixture. Stir just until moistened (batter should be lumpy).
3
Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling each 2/3 full. If desired, sprinkle Streusel Topping over muffin batter in cups. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until golden and a wooden toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool in muffin cups on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove from muffin cups; serve warm.
4
Makes 12 muffins
5
Poppy Seed Muffins: Prepare as above, except increase sugar to 1/2 cup and add 1 tablespoon poppy seeds to flour mixture.
6
Cheese Muffins: Prepare as above, except stir 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese or Monterey Jack cheese into flour mixture. Per muffin: 155 cal., 7 g total fat (2 g sat. fat), 24 mg chol., 158 mg sodium, 19 g carbo., 0 g dietary fiber, 4 g protein. Daily Values: 2% vit. A, 10% calcium, 5% iron Exchanges: 1 Starch, .5 Other Carbo., 1 Fat
7
Streusel Topping: In a small bowl stir together 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour, 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon. Cut in 2 tablespoons butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in 2 tablespoons chopped pecans or walnuts.
8
Blueberry Muffins: Prepare as above, except fold 3/4 cup fresh or frozen blueberries and, if desired, 1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel into batter.
9
Banana Muffins: Prepare as above, greasing muffin cups (do not use paper bake cups). Reduce milk to 1/2 cup. Stir 3/4 cup mashed banana and 1/2 cup chopped nuts into flour mixture along with the egg mixture. Per muffin: 184 cal., 9 g total fat (1 g sat. fat), 18 mg chol. 126 mg sodium, 24 g carbo., 1 g dietary fiber, 4 g protein. Daily Values: 1% vit. A, 3% vit. C, 6% calcium, 6% iron Exchanges: 1 Starch, .5 Other Carbo., 1.5 Fat
10
Cranberry Muffins: Prepare as above, except combine 1 cup coarsely chopped cranberries and 2 tablespoons additional sugar; fold into batter. Oatmeal Muffins: Prepare as above, except reduce flour to 1-1/3 cups and add 3/4 cup rolled oats to flour mixture.
Knowing how to make muffins is one thing, but turning them into designer delights with fruits, herbs, and cheese will boost your culinary reputation around town (or at least around the house).
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