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20080812 Tuesday August 12, 2008

Best Ever Muffins With Spices

We've been experimenting with a variety of muffin recipes recently. Trying to find something that's tasty as well as versatile. The recipe below combines Best Ever Muffins with Spicy Muffins. 

INGREDIENTS

    * 2 cups all-purpose flour
    * 1 tablespoon cinnamon
    * 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
    * 1/4 teaspoon ginger
    * 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
    * 3 teaspoons baking powder
    * 1/2 teaspoon salt
    * 3/4 cup white sugar
    * 1 egg
    * 1 cup milk
    * 1/4 cup vegetable oil

DIRECTIONS

   1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).

   2. Stir together the flour, four spices, baking 
      powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl.
 
      Make a well in the center. In a small bowl or 
      2 cup measuring cup, beat egg with a fork.
 
      Stir in milk and oil. 

      Pour all at once into the well in the flour mixture. 
      Mix quickly and lightly with a fork until moistened, 
      but do not beat. The batter will be lumpy. 

      Pour the batter into paper lined muffin pan cups.

   3. Variations: 
      Blueberry Muffins: Add 1 cup fresh blueberries. 
      Raisin Muffins: Add 1 cup finely chopped raisins. 
      Date Muffins: Add 1 cup finely chopped dates. 
      Cheese Muffins: Fold in 1 cup grated sharp yellow cheese. 
      Bacon Muffins: Fold 1/4 cup crisp cooked bacon, 
      broken into bits.

   4. Bake for 25 minutes, or until golden.

We tried the cheese variant last night. The cheese was hardly noticeable, which is not a good sign. The muffins still tasted good though. We will probably go back to the fruit based ones now, although bacon bits sounds interesting.

If you have any suggestions for the optional ingredient to make yummy muffins please comment.

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( Aug 12 2008, 11:09:37 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [1]

Comments:

Good morning Rich. :-)

I was thinking it might be novel to eat breakfast this A.M. and remembered your muffin entry. Cheese sounded good so I went with that, sans spices and using "extra" sharp cheese in the hopes that the flavor would stand out more. Nope. But I do think the cheese contributes to the overall taste, even though the muffins aren't "cheesy." Then again, the cheesiness might be overpowered by the other thing I decided to toss in: diced Hatch chiles (freshly roasted; not canned). :-) About 1/2 as much peppers as cheese. And, ya know, these muffins are honestly rather good. I'm not quite ready to recommend my concoction, in part because I have odd tastes and in part because I wound up having to improvise on the milk (used Silk soy milk) and the egg (some of that "it's essentially egg and it's good for you" carton stuff). So who's to say exactly what is responsible for the outcome? Still I'm very glad I made muffins this morning. :-)

Now what I'm wondering is: If chiles and cheese make for tasty muffins, what about chile and chocolate? -- Mexican chocolate. In other words, mole sauce muffins. It could prove to be an unmitigated culinary disaster of enormous proportions; but then again, it just might work. Ya never know.... Besides, it can't be any more strange than bacon muffins.... ;-) ;-)

Anyhoo.... Have a great day!

p.s. Thanks for keeping the captcha elementary. :-)

Posted by joanie on September 04, 2008 at 05:42 AM PDT #

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