However, I cannot, just make the recipe normal... I have to change it up. Here was our recent experiments and successes.Little Boy Blue Muffins. These are basic Blueberry Muffins. I used frozen ( buy them fresh, when they are on sale, toss the whole container in your freezer and when they are frozen solid transfer them to a ziplock baggie.) I changed part of the oil out for plain non fat yogurt, and I did a little zest of lemon in the batter and a sprinkle of white sugar on top. ( I will do the original recipe further down and the changes I made for each of these muffins)
Pink Berry Muffins.... These were fun to make.. because I was experimenting. AND they came out pretty good too. The neighbors loved them.
I used a Cranberry Orange recipe, I added, beet puree (to make them pink) and yogurt to cut the oil content, I didn't have enough orange zest, so I tried to use orange juice. Note, the Zest really makes the orange flavor, the juice really didn't cut it. I had my friend over for the weekend. She looked at me like I was out of my mind that I wanted to MAKE muffins, then when she saw me put beet puree in them, she said "I am NOT eating those. " I said "YES you will and I guarantee you won't taste the beet and that you will like them." 35 minutes later, and 3 muffins gone in her tummy.... I was right. ( does that count as another score for me???)
Original recipe.
Sweet Muffins-
1 egg
1/2 cup of milk
1/4 cup of salad oil
1 1/2 cups of flour
1/2 cup of sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp of salt
Heat oven to 400. Grease 12 muffin cups.
Beat egg, stir in milk and oil.
Mix in remaining ingredients just until flour is moistened. Batter should be lumpy.
Fill muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown, immediately remove from pan, serve warm.
WHAT DID I DO?
Little Boy Blue Muffins
First I doubled the recipe.
Sweet Muffins-
2 egg
1 cup of milk
1/2 cup of Plain Non Fat Yogurt
3 cups of flour
1 cup of sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp of salt
1 tsp baking soda ( to counteract the acidity of the yogurt)
3/4 cup frozen Blueberries. (still frozen, this minimizes berry bleed..Original recipe called fro frozen, thawed and drained.)
I loaded the muffin cups almost to the top. I got about 18 muffins, that made nice big muffins. :)
Pink Berry Muffins-
First I doubled the recipe.
Sweet Muffins-
2 egg
1 cup of milk
1/2 cup of Plain Non Fat Yogurt
3 1/2 cups of flour
1/4 of beet puree
1 cup of sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp of salt
1 tsp baking soda ( to counteract the acidity of the yogurt)
1 tbs grated orange peel (I used orange zest, done on my microplane) 1 cup cranberries ( I used 1 cup of Craisins)
This made 20 muffins. Next time... more beet puree, these weren't very pink. It did make the tops of them look pink, though.
