Monday, March 11, 2013

MUFFINS: Here are a couple of recipes of muffins having flavour enhanced by the additrion of blueberries or other fruits.


BLUEBERRY OAT MUFFINS

 

 

 

2 cups blueberries + 2 tbsp. all purpose flour

¾ cups oats + 1 ½ cups all purpose flour

2 tsp. baking powder                                      

1 cup sugar

1 tsp. salt                                                        

½ cup cold butter, cut into cubes

1 ½ tbsp. grated lemon rind                            

2/3 cup milk

1 egg

topping: 1 ½ tbsp. sugar + 2 tsp. cinnamon

 

 

 

 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.  Prepare 16 muffin cups. Washed blueberries and toss with flour, set aside. 

 

In a food processor fitted with steel blade, process oats to a coarse powder. Sift flour, baking powder, sugar and salt together into a large bowl and add oat powder to mix in well. Add in butter and, using pastry cutter, work butter into flour until mixture resembles coarse meal.  Add grated rind and blueberries. Beat egg slightly, add milk and mix well. Stir egg and milk into flour mixture, mixing batter until just combined. Fill muffins cups 2/3 full with batter.

 

Combine topping ingredients and use a spoon to sprinkle topping on top of each muffin.

 

Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until muffins are puffed and golden. 








BANANA-OATMEAL MINI MUFFINS

 

 

 
dry ingredients:

    2 cups all purpose flour + 1 cup quick-cooking oatmeal
    1 cup packed brown sugar                                      
    ½ cup sweetened flaked coconut
    1 tsp. each baking powder & baking soda
    ½ tsp. each salt & freshly grated nutmeg

1 ½ cups (about 3) mashed ripe banana                      

2 eggs

1/3 cup butter, melted

 

 

 
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Prepare 24 mini muffin cups.

 

Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl.  In a separate bowl, combine eggs, butter and mashed bananas. Add this mixture into the flour mixture all at once and mix in until batter is just combined.  Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.

 

Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until tested done.

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