Never Fail Muffins
Easy
Muffins are such a popular item for children’s lunch boxes or birthday parties. They are also a wonderful treat for long lazy weekend breakfasts.This recipe is gives you a very basic recipe and a whole series of suggested flavours that you can add to the mixture. You can have lots of fun playing around with different alternatives. By top celebrity TV chef Edward Hayden.
PREP IN
15 MIN
COOK IN
25 MIN
SERVE
12
Never Fail Muffins
Easy
PREP IN
15 MIN
COOK IN
25 MIN
SERVE
12
Introduction
Muffins are such a popular item for children’s lunch boxes or birthday parties. They are also a wonderful treat for long lazy weekend breakfasts.This recipe is gives you a very basic recipe and a whole series of suggested flavours that you can add to the mixture. You can have lots of fun playing
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Ingredients
- 450g plain flour
- 175g caster sugar
- 1 rounded teaspoon of baking powder
- 110g butter
- 2 large eggs
- 225ml milk
- For White Chocolate & Raspberry: 75g white chocolate chips and 75g fresh/frozen raspberries
- For Lemon & Blueberry: grated zest of 1 lemon & 150g blueberries
- For Chocolate Chip: 150g mixed chocolate chips
- For Apple & Cinnamon: 2 eating apples-diced & ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- For Banana & Milk Chocolate: 2 ripe bananas-mashed and 3oz/75g milk chocolate chips
- For Cranberry & Sultana: 110g fresh cranberries & 50g sultanas
FLAVOURING OF CHOICE:
Method
- 1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4. Line a 12 cup muffin tray with muffin paper cases.
- 2. Mix flour, sugar and baking powder together.
- 3. Rub in the butter with the tips of your fingers.
- 4. Break in the eggs and milk and mix to a stiff batter.
- 5. Add in the flavouring of your choice at this stage and mix well.
- 6. Spoon into prepared muffins tins and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown and puffed up.
- 7. Dust with icing sugar and serve! Or mix 3 tablespoons of icing sugar with little boiled water until it reaches a running consistency and drizzle hap-hazzardly over the top of the muffins.
