Classic muffins are small, fragrant, airy cupcakes with a perfect taste.
Most often they prepare chocolate, with cherry or cottage cheese. But there are other options for popular baking. Why not try them in your kitchen?
Classic Muffins - General Cooking Principles
Classic muffin dough is prepared by mixing dry and wet ingredients separately. Due to this, the mass is obtained as it should be. But, not all recipes apply this rule.
The main ingredients of the classic test:
• Flour. Only wheat, sifted.
• Butter. Only creamy. In classic recipes, margarine or vegetable oil is used very rarely.
• Eggs. If they are small, then you can increase the amount specified in the recipe.
• Sugar. It is permissible to replace the powder.
• Rippers. Used baking powders from bags. In the muffins, this component is not taken to replace soda, as quenching gives additional moisture.
Chocolate, raisins, cocoa powder and other ingredients are added to taste. The dough is laid out in small molds. In the common pot muffins are not baked.
Classic Muffins with Chocolate
The famous recipe for classic chocolate muffins. It is used for the filling, so you can immediately take a drop or chop the tiles into pieces. Add dark cocoa powder to dough.
Ingredients
• oil 90 g;
• 60 g of chocolate;
• 100 g of sugar;
• 20 g of cocoa;
• 1.5 tsp. ripper;
• two eggs;
• 1 pinch of soda;
• 150 g of milk;
• flour 0.2 kg.
Cooking
1. According to the rules, you need to mix dry ingredients in a bowl. Flour for muffins is used only the highest grade and sifted. We connect it with cocoa, a small pinch of soda, ripper. Add sugar to the liquid.
2. Whole milk should be at room temperature. Mix it with eggs and sugar, whisk with a whisk until smooth, it is not necessary to use a mixer. 3. The oil is melted, cooled. Add fat to milk.
4. Now you need to combine both mixtures. Get chocolate dough.
5. Take the chocolate bar, chop with a knife into small pieces. Put in cooked dough. Stir.
6. Forms are placed on the baking sheet or placed in a special pan. Fill the dough at two thirds of the volume.
7. Put it in a heated oven. Classic cupcakes are baked at 180 ° C (if the oven is with convection, then 170 is enough). Cook for 20 minutes, then turn off the oven and leave for another ten minutes to stand. Take out.
Classic Cherry Muffins
Recipe for cherry muffins from butter dough. Here, the mixing technology is slightly different. Oil must be removed in the heat in advance, the product must be softened.
Ingredients
• 0.5 Art. Sahara;
• butter 130 grams;
• milk 3 tbsp. l .;
• 160 g cherries (pitted weight);
• 0.7 tsp. ripper;
• three eggs;
• 160 g of flour;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Cut the butter into pieces, fold it into a bowl, keep it warm for an hour. Or we take immediately the softened product.
2. Pour sugar. We continue beating with a mixer until the grains are completely dissolved.
3. Add eggs one by one. Then pour the milk. Whisk together.
4. Mix the flour with all the dry ingredients, add to the dough, stir.
5. From the cherries take out the bones. If the berries are frozen, first let them thaw.
6. Mix the prepared cherries into the dough.
7. Scatter in molds, send to the baking sheet.
8. We bring to readiness. The optimal temperature for delicacy is 170-175 ° C. For the standard-sized cupcakes, it will take half an hour.
Classic muffins with raisins
It is advisable to use dark raisins for this baking. You will also need a little rum, if necessary, this ingredient can be eliminated or replaced with a small amount of brandy.
Ingredients
• three eggs;
• milk 35 ml;
• 150 g of flour;
• 120 g of raisins;
• 2 spoons of rum;
• 7 g baking ripper;
• oil drain. 130 grams.
Cooking
1. Wash the washed raisins with rum, mix, leave for the time of kneading dough. If you need a replacement, we take another alcoholic drink, but you do not need to pour in much. 2. Butter is whipped five minutes. Then gradually sugar is added to it. You can take powder to speed up the process. The mass should be fluffy and homogeneous.
3. Add milk to the butter, do not stop beating.
4. Next are added eggs. Carefully interrupted until uniform.
5. Add the dry ingredients of the formulation.
6. At the very end, enter the prepared raisins in rum.
7. Stir, scatter the flavored dough in the molds.
8. Such muffins are baked for half an hour at 175-180, it is desirable to control the readiness of a toothpick.
American classic muffins with blueberries
American recipe for muffins with blueberries. Baking is very tender, sweet and light, and it can also be prepared very quickly. A great recipe for those who have guests on the threshold. Recipe for vegetable oil.
Ingredients
• 180 ml of milk;
• 0.2 kg of sugar;
• egg;
• 100 ml oil rast. without smell;
• 250 g of flour;
• 100 g blueberries;
• salt, vanilla;
• 10 g ripper.
Cooking
1. Pour milk into one bowl, add vegetable oil to it and add one egg. These are all ingredients of the mixture. Shake with a whisk until smooth.
2. In another bowl we combine all that remains in the recipe.
3. Berries are sorted, washed and dried. If frozen blueberries are used, then let it thaw before it.
4. Now combine the milk mixture and bulk products, stir the dough with a spoon or spatula.
5. Add the prepared blueberries. Similarly, you can use in this recipe currants or cherries.
6. Put the mixed dough in molds.
7. Ship blueberry muffins to bake. On average, it will take about 24-25 minutes. Unlike other recipes, the temperature for this test is 200 degrees.
Classic muffins in the microwave (chocolate and nut)
The recipe is very quick and easy to make classic muffins. Since the microwave oven will be used for baking, the silicone cups need to be taken.
Ingredients
• 9 tablespoons of flour;
• 8 tablespoons of powder;
• 3 spoons of cocoa;
• 2 eggs;
• 40 ml of water; • 100 ml of milk;
• 1 spoon of chopped nuts;
• 100 g of oil;
• 50 g chocolate;
• 1 tsp. ripper.
Cooking
1. We mix eggs and all liquids.
2. Add melted, but not hot, butter.
3. In another container, combine all the dry ingredients of the recipe. Stir thoroughly so that when the mixture does not form lumps.
4. Nuts are used chopped walnuts, but you can take peanuts. Chocolate is also chopped.
5. Combine nuts with chocolate and bulk mix for the dough.
6. Pour all this into a milk preparation with an egg.
7. Dough for muffins stir until smooth.
8. Fold in molds. Top can be sprinkled with additional nuts.
9. We put the molds in the microwave oven, we try to arrange them at equal distance from each other.
10. Turn on 2 minutes at a power of 750-800.
11. After the signal, leave them for another couple of minutes. Then you need to open the door, pierce one muffin with a toothpick. If the stick is sticky, then re-turn on for 30-40 seconds at the same power, letting it stand a minute after baking.
Classic muffins with liquid filling
Another version of muffins, but not simple, but with a liquid filling. This classic recipe also comes from America. To get pastries with a moist cream, you do not need to be a genius. It's all about baking.
Ingredients
• 150 g chocolate;
• two eggs;
• 45 g of flour;
• 50 g of oil;
• 50 g sugar.
Cooking
1. Chocolate need to take quality with a high cocoa content (at least 70%). Break pieces, throw in a bowl.
2. Add oil, send it all together to a water bath. Melt the mixture until uniform, cool.
3. Eggs and sugar need to shake up to foam.
4. Combine with chocolate mixture.
5. Add the flour, stir the dough until smooth and immediately pour into the molds.
6. Put in a heated oven (180 ° C) for 7-8 minutes. The task is to bake the edges, top and bottom of miniature cupcakes, but the middle should remain raw.
7. Remove from the oven, transfer the muffins to the serving plates, serve warm. You can add products with cream, ice cream, fruit, or simply sprinkle with sweet powder.
Classic Muffins with Curd
A classic recipe for cottage cheese muffins. Baking is light, airy, while it has a creamy aroma. In this dough, you can add raisins or nuts.
Ingredients
• 70 g of oil;
• 150 g of cottage cheese;
• 150g of flour;
• two eggs;
• 1 s. l (with a hill) ripper;
• 140 g sugar.
Cooking
1. Pound the cottage cheese until homogeneous, large pieces in the product should not be.
2. Beat the butter with cottage cheese together, gradually add sugar. After all the grains are dissolved, add eggs one by one, stir.
3. It's time to pour flour and baking powder in the dough. Stir.
4. To taste vanilla, raisins or other additives. Juicy berries in the curd dough is better not to add or use in small quantities. Otherwise, the baking process may be delayed.
5. Fold the dough. As usual, there is no need to fill the top of the molds.
6. We put baked. The temperature of the heated oven 180. Cook until dry sticks.
Classic Muffins - Tips and Tricks
• Molds for muffins before pouring dough can be greased and sprinkled with crackers, cocoa powder. Crust on baking will be more interesting.
• Instead of vanilla in classic muffins, you can add a little ground zest. The aroma will be awesome.
• If you need to make pastries with juicy berries, then before putting them into the dough, you need to squeeze them well. Otherwise, the process of preparing a wet mass may be delayed, and the taste and appearance will suffer.
