Muffins are a treat from the same series as the canapes: no, make a huge sandwich, so on the contrary - they made a lot of small ones. But you can diversify the filling, and in our case - either the dough, or plaster. Well, just imagine: a huge dish of cupcakes and not a single one!
Muffins with apples - general principles of cooking
• Muffins are baked in small molds, which can be made from both silicone and metal. Often, for such baking, paper forms specially made by the factory are used. Before spreading the dough over the forms, vegetable oil is applied to the walls and bottom with a thin layer, silicone containers do not require such preparation.
• Dough for muffins with apples kneaded on milk or dairy products, such as sour cream, kefir and even cottage cheese. It is always loosened by the factory ripper. The peculiarity of making dough for muffins is that it can not be stirred for a long time, and even more so whipped. Baked products should be with large pores, and long kneading and whipping makes the structure finely porous.
• Apples can be added in a crushed form both to the dough itself and to the filling. Grinding fruit may require a grater with large or small cells.
• Together with apples, you can put crushed nuts, carrots, dried fruits.
• Apple muffins - optional baked pastries, they can be dietary, if instead of flour, use oatmeal or add it only in small amounts for a bunch of low-fat cottage cheese.
Cottage Cheese Muffins with Apples
Ingredients:
• granulated sugar - 100 g .;
• three eggs;
• 100-120 gr. high quality flour;
• large ripe apple;
• 50 gr. homemade butter;
• 400 gr. low-fat cottage cheese;
• factory ripper - 1/4 tsp.
Cooking Method:
1. Pour eggs into the curd, add sugar and beat with a blender to a pasty state.
2. Coarsely grate the butter, add the flour, about three spoons, and mix again with a blender until a homogeneous consistency. 3. Peel the peel from the apple and chop it with a large grater. Add apple chips to the dough and mix well, but with a spoon.
4. Sprinkle flour, adjust the density of the curd mass. It should be a little thicker than you usually do for pancakes. The consistency of a little thicker still frozen homemade sour cream.
5. Spread the curd pasty mass in small silicone molds for muffins. If you use metal or disposable paper - be sure to moisten with vegetable oil.
6. Arrange the filled tins on a baking sheet, maintaining a centimeter distance, and place it in a hot (180 degrees) oven for half an hour.
Dietary oat muffins with apples and curd
Ingredients:
• two large apples;
• egg;
• skimmed milk - 125 ml;
• low-fat cottage cheese - 200 gr .;
• flakes “Hercules” - 150 gr .;
• dietary fiber - 25 gr .;
• vanilla or cinnamon powder, fructose - to taste;
• 3 gr. factory baking powder dough.
Cooking Method:
1. Fill the flakes with hot milk and leave for a while so that they are well steamed.
2. In the swollen and cooled oatmeal with a large grater, rub the peeled apples. Add cottage cheese, ripper and fructose. For flavor, add some cinnamon or vanilla powder, mix.
3. Constantly stirring the oatmeal dough, gradually add all the fiber in it.
4. Spread the cooked dough evenly in small molds and place them in a preheated oven.
5. Bake diet muffins should be no more than 40 minutes, constantly monitoring the temperature regime. The optimum temperature is 180 degrees, with a higher product they will not bake and will not rise.
Muffins with apples and walnuts on kefir
Ingredients:
• high-quality flour - 300 gr .;
• 60 ml of lean high quality oil;
• egg;
• spoon of vanilla extract;
• 60 gr. nut kernels;
• 100 gr. white refined sugar;
• 300 ml of fatty kefir;
• two spoons of a ripper;
• 0.5 spoons of fine salt;
• 0.5 Art. l brown sugar;
• cinnamon powder - 0.5 tbsp. l .;
• apples - 3 pcs. small size.
Cooking Method: 1. Cut the apples in half. Peel, remove core residue and cut into small cubes. Finely interpret the walnut kernels.
2. In a warm, aged at room temperature, kefir break an egg. Pour in the oil, vanilla extract and mix well. Liquid flavoring can be replaced with powder or vanilla sugar. In this case, it will need to be introduced not into kefir, but mixed with loose components.
3. Transfer flour to a separate bowl. Pour to it salt, a baking powder, white sugar. Mix loose ingredients well and pour into kefir mixture. Intensive mixing, bring the mass to homogeneity. Beat should not be, otherwise the baking will not rise.
4. Add the nuts with the crushed apples, mix the dough well and immediately spread it on the prepared molds.
5. Sprinkle cupcakes with cinnamon mixed with brown sugar on top and put in a bake for 25 minutes in the oven, which is preheated to 180 degrees.
Chocolate Muffins with Apples
Ingredients:
• apples - 350 gr .;
• dark cocoa powder - 4 tbsp. l .;
• 75 ml of refined corn oil;
• 150 ml of pasteurized low-fat milk;
• egg;
• filtered juice from a small lemon;
• 100 gr. sugar;
• factory cultivator - 2 tsp;
• wheat flour - 200 gr.
For Strayzel:
• 30 gr. thickened cream;
• 50 gr. high-quality flour;
• A tablespoon of sugar.
Cooking Method:
1. Without peeling, cut the apples into small cubes. It is desirable that the size of the pieces does not exceed 7 mm. To keep the pieces darker while preparing the other components of the muffin, sprinkle them with lemon juice and mix.
2. In a large bowl, combine the warm milk with the eggs. Add granulated sugar and stir to dissolve its grains.
3. In a separate bowl, mix the flour with cocoa, pour out the ripper and transfer the mixture through a sieve into a container with a liquid base. Bring to homogeneity and mix crushed apples into the dough.
4. Cut the butter into small pieces, place the pieces in a small bowl and leave them to soften slightly. Then add granulated sugar, add flour and knead thoroughly with a fork until fine crumbs form. You can intensively rub hands. 5. Fill the baking molds prepared for baking by two thirds of the volume, sprinkle with a scraper, cooked with oily crumb, and place in a well-heated oven for 25 minutes.
Carrot muffins with apples - “Sunny”
Ingredients:
• cashew nuts - 50 g .;
• wheat flour - 150 gr .;
• a tablespoon of cinnamon pounded in a mortar;
• eggs - 2 pcs .;
• 80 ml of lean frozen oil;
• 10 gr. ripper factory;
• 140 gr. sugar;
• sour apples - 125 gr .;
• 50 gr. dark raisins;
• 25 gr. coconut shavings;
• 120 gr. juicy carrots.
Cooking Method:
1. Sieve the flour with a fine sieve. Add a small pinch of salt, cinnamon, pour in the ripper and re-cross again, so that all the ingredients are mixed evenly.
2. Break eggs into separate dishes and, without ceasing to beat, add all the sugar into them. Then pour the butter into the sweet mass and mix well.
3. A large vegetable grater, rub the peeled carrots and apples, mix and leave for five minutes. Then strain the extracted juice and send the carrot and apples to the eggs.
4. Add coconut chips and finely shredded nuts. Pour over the flour and stir again.
5. Spread the cooked carrot-apple dough into molds and bake at 180 degrees.
6. Cooking time depends on the type of oven, so after twenty minutes it is advisable to check the readiness of the muffin by puncturing the wooden stick in the center.
Muffins with apples under cream frosting
Ingredients:
• large apple;
• three eggs;
• 200 gr. high fat sour cream;
• 150 gr. refined sugar;
• A full teaspoon of factory ripper;
• crystalline vanillin - 1 tsp .;
• 250 gr. high-quality wheat flour.
For glaze:
• cream, medium fat - 100 ml;
• 20 gr. high-quality butter;
• 100 gr. sugar;
• 1/3 spoonful of vanilla powder.
Cooking Method:
1. Break eggs into a bowl, add plain sugar, add vanilla, beat well.
2. Put sour cream in the egg mixture, add pereseven ripper with flour and, with a spoon or a whisk, stir so that there are no lumps. Do not beat the dough.
3. Coarsely, grated, rub the apples, sprinkle them with lemon juice, mix and temporarily set aside. 4. Pour prepared cream dough into molds. Do not pour a lot, it is enough to fill one third. Then put some apple chips and fill up the molds to two-thirds of the volume with dough.
5. Place the filled forms on the baking tray, stepping back from each other, and bake for 25 minutes. The temperature in the oven is 180 degrees, not more. Then remove and cool, freeing from the forms. To keep the bottom of the baking not wet, place the muffins on the grid.
6. Combine the cream with sugar, vanilla and boil on the stove, but do not boil. As soon as the first bubbles begin to rise to the surface, reduce the heat and continue to cook for 20 minutes while constantly stirring. Then remove the butter mixture from the heat, lower the butter and stir until dissolved. After that, pour the glaze into another dish and cool well, but not quite, it should be a little warm.
7. Apply a creamy glaze with a thin layer on the surface of the cooled muffins and leave to solidify. You can sprinkle a layer of glaze with multicolored powder.
Muffins with apples - cooking tricks and useful tips
• Dough for muffins can not be kneaded for a long time. To make the ripper well, mix it with flour before sifting. Also add to flour and other finely ground ingredients - and cocoa, cinnamon or vanilla powder.
• If the top of the product is accidentally burnt, do not rush to cut it, clean the dark crust with a fine trowel after the product has completely cooled down.
• Decorate the top muffin can be powdered sugar, cream or icing. It is necessary to induce beauty only on cooled products, otherwise the decoration will not stick, melting from the warm dough.
