Basic Muffins With Variations
From whodunitrdr 16 years ago
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 2 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 3/4 cup milk shopping list
- 3/8 cup oil (that is 1/4 cup plus 2 Tablespoons) shopping list
- About 1 cup of any additional optional ingredients shopping list
How to make it
- Stir together dry ingredients in a large bowl.
- Add wet ingredients and any optional ingredients and stir just until moistened. (Adjust amount of milk depending on how moist your add-ins are - add less for moist things like banana, crushed pineapple, or pumpkin and add a bit more if needed for dried fruits.)
- Scoop into greased muffins tins (an ice cream scoop works well for this).
- Sprinkle the tops with sugar if desired, and bake at 400 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until done.
- NOTES:
- You can mix up a large batch of the basic dry mix (flour, sugar, baking powder and salt) and store in a sealed container in your pantry.
- To have fresh muffins in the morning, stir the mix and measure out 3 cups of mix for one dozen muffins, 6 cups for two dozen muffins, add the wet ingredients and the optional ingredients and bake.
- Or, for a large group, make a large batch of the basic mix and make one dozen each of a variety of flavors with a lot less work.
- VARIATIONS:
- Banana Nut - add 1c. mashed bananas and 1/2 c. chopped walnuts.
- Blueberry - add 1 c. fresh or frozen blueberries.
- Pina Colada - add 1 small can drained crushed pineapple and 1/2 c. coconut.
- Apple Spice - add 1 peeled chopped apple, 1/4 teas. cinnamon and a dash nutmeg.
- Coffee Walnut - add 1 teas. coffee extract and 3/4 c. chopped walnuts.
- Pumpkin Spice - add 1 c. canned pumpkin, 1/2 teas. pumpkin pie spices, 1/2 c. nuts.
- Mincemeat - add 1 c. canned mincemeat and 1/2 c. chopped nuts.
- Date Nut - add 1 c. chopped dates and 1/2 c. nuts.
- Cranberry - add 1 c. chopped fresh cranberries, 1/2 c. nuts, 1 teas. orange rind.
- Chocolate chip - add 1 c. chocolate chips and 1/2 teas. vanilla extract, nuts if desired.
- Cherry Almond - add 1 c. chopped dried cherries and 1/2 c. toasted flaked almonds.
- Chocolate Chocolate chip - add 1/4 c. cocoa powder, 1/2 teas. vanilla and 1/2 c. (or more) chocolate chips (thanks LB).
- Anything else you can think up. Adjust amount of milk in batter depending on the moistness of the added ingredients.
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Reviewed by 17 people-
Loved these! I was trying to find a fresh strawberry muffin & couldn't. Remembered your easy variation muffin & they were DELISH! Thanks for posting this! I did add some sour cream instead of upping the milk since I was using big chunks of strawberri...more
scotdog98
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For a delicious gluten-free version, use 1 cup of almond meal plus 1 cup of your favourite gluten-free flour mix instead of the regular flour, add 1 extra egg, and 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
Adding plenty of vanilla extract (the real stuff, ...more
harpraxis
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trying this now....they're in the oven...hurry up. I left them in for only 20 minutes, after reading the comments hear that said the 25-30 minute time was a bit too long for them.
I halved the recipe, but I stupidly added the original quan...more Cohzaku
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