Monday 30 January 2012

Muffin Trials


Sunday was so different, not a hint of sunshine and cold with a high of just 3.1°C and the daily average coming in at 1.3°C. This weather may be with us a while, through into the second week of February if the forecasts are correct.

Last week I made some apple muffins which turned out well. I thought some may be nice with a little of our frozen fruit used in them. The apple recipe only made 8 muffins and I wanted to make a dozen sufficient to fill the muffin tray. There’s thousands of muffin recipes on the web so it was a matter of deciding which one. I settled for a blueberry muffin recipe except I intended to use some redcurrants to replace the blueberries.  I added the equivalent amount of de-frosted redcurrants as a first attempt to see if the muffins would turn out OK.
The ingredients:

2 eggs, 240ml milk, 120ml vegetable oil, 200gms sugar added to a bowl and mixed together.
375gms plain flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt mixed together.

The 2 sets of ingredients are added together and given a good mixing and then I added 175 gms of de-frosted redcurrants.

The mixed contents were shared between the 12 muffin cases and cooked for 25 minutes at 200°C gas mark 6

Next time I might try with 200gms of redcurrants especially as we still have plenty in the freezer.

4 comments:

  1. I don't have redcurrants but I've made blueberry muffins with homegrown blueberries and they were delicious.

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  2. Those muffins look heavenly!!

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  3. Hi Robin & Jo

    I've not really done much baking so I'm pleasantly surprised when my efforts turn out to be edible. Might try home grown blueberries if we have enough this summer.

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  4. Mmmmmmmm.....they look lovley, i love whitecurrent muffins too.

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