Very best muffins?

[serene]

I'll search around, too, but anyone feel like sharing your favorite tried-and-true muffin recipe? I'm going to be helping out on an early-morning picket line on Wednesday, and I want to take muffins to share with the strikers.

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re: Very best muffins?

[betonica.livejournal.com]

Muffins - hm. I've been wanting muffins that aren't sweet for some years, now. Seems to me when I was a kid they weren't sweet, and you melted butter on 'em, and they were delicious. I don't have any recipes, but if one comes your way that isn't sweet, let me know.

Piglet has an astonishingly good and very easy biscuit recipe, if you want that. But it isn't muffins.

Re: Very best muffins?

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I do a damn fine cheese muffin. Interested?

Re: Very best muffins?

[betonica.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Sounds tasty! Post it here?

Re: Very best muffins?

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Sure! Even though you didn't say please. ;)

CHAMPION CHEESE MUFFINS
Source: Alison Holst's Marvellous Muffins
Yield: 12 muffins

2 cups grated tasty (sharpish cheddar) cheese
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon sugar
pinch of cayenne pepper (I just grind in a little black pepper)
1 egg
1 cup milk

Measure the grated cheese, self-raising flour, salt, sugar and cayenne pepper into a bowl. Mix lightly with your fingertips to combine.

In a small container beat the egg and milk until evenly combined. Pour all the liquid onto the dry ingredients, then fold the two mixtures together, taking care not to over-mix.

Spoon mixture into 12 greased or sprayed medium muffin pans. Bake at 210C/425F for about 12 minutes, until muffins spring back in the middle and are golden brown. Remove to a rack to cool.

[eeyorerin]

If you want a vegan recipe, this one works well and is pretty easy.

If you have a copy of The Joy of Cooking, I've found their basic muffin recipe to be pretty easy and flexible. If you don't, let me know and I'll email you the recipe.

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

I have one for blueberry-lemon multigrain muffins. I'll type it up for you later tonight.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

I really like Morning Glorious Muffins, but they are a bit of a pain to make in quantity because you need to grate apple and carrot. (Plus they have some common allergens in, so are not great for a big undifferentiated crowd.) I will gladly share my recipe if you want it.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yes, please! This is for my cow-orkers, and as far as I know, they'll snarf anything.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups shredded carrot (about 2 big carrots)
1 1/2 cups shredded apple (about 2 big apples or 3 regular ones)
3/4 cup coconut
1/2 cup raisins (or chopped dates or other dried fruit)
1/2 cup chopped pecans
3 eggs
1 cup oil (canola or soybean or what-have-you)
1/2 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease muffin pans or line with paper cups.

In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. In another bowl, combine carrot, apples, coconut, dates, and pecans, then stir in eggs, oil, and vanilla. Add moist ingredients to dry ingredients and stir just until moistened.

Fill cups about 3/4 full and bake for 18-20 minutes, until they pass the toothpick test. Makes 24 moist and yummy muffins.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

That looks FABULOUS. Thank you!

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Also, I think you've eaten these at least once -- I remember bringing them to some kind of party you were having at stonebender's, maybe a games night?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! Well, even better then, because I thought to myself how much better they'd be without the cinnamon (I hate cinnamon, in general) and now I get to make them without it! :-)

(Also using dried cherries because the Munchkin hates raisins.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

(By the way, I didn't mean to say the muffins were bad with cinnamon in them -- they were very good. I just always react to cinnamony stuff with a "hmm, these would be even better without cinnamon".) :-)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm just making a shopping list, and realizing there's no liquid (other than oil and eggs) in this. Is that correct, or a typo?

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

That is correct. You get a lot of moisture from the apples.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

http://porcinea.livejournal.com/100937.html

Banana bread muffins; never fail.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Oh! Or http://porcinea.livejournal.com/220364.html

Applesauce-molasses muffins; also never fail.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, but I just happen to have three bananas that will, if they survive, be overripe tomorrow, when I need to make the muffins, so I think I'll go with the banana and maybe try one or two of the other contenders, too, depending on how much baking energy I can gather. Thanks, Peeg!

re: Very best muffins?

[betonica.livejournal.com]

Oh! Didn't you make those applesauce-molasses muffins for J's birthday at my house? They were **delicious**!

Re: Very best muffins?

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Those were they! (Thank you.)

They are wonderfully reliable. No matter how I screw them up (half the sugar, not enough molasses), they come out tasty.