Showing posts with label Muffins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muffins. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Carrot and Pineapple Muffins


These are yummy, nutritious and serve as breakfast too. I love them with my coffee.

Ingredients
All Purpose Flour - 2 cups
Sugar - 1 1/2 cups
Baking Powder - 2 tsp
Ground Cinnamon - 2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Slightly beaten Eggs - 3
Cooking Oil - 2/3 Cup
Milk - 1/3 Cup
Vanilla - 2 tsp
Finely shredded carrot - 1 1/2 cups
Crushed, drained pineapple - 1 8oz can
Raisins - 1/2 cup
Chopped walnuts or pecans - 1/2 cup

Procedure
1) Pre heat the oven to 35o degrees
2) Line a muffin pan of 24 cups capacity with paper bake cups or grease them.
3) In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and soda.
4) In another bowl, combine eggs, oil, milk and vanilla
5) Stir in carrot, pineapple, raisins and nuts.
6) Add the egg and carrot mixture to the flour mixture. Stir well until moistened.
7) Spoon the batter into prepared muffin cups, filling each about 3/4 full.
8) Bake for 18-20 minutes or until they turn golden brown.
9) Cool the muffin pan for 5 minutes and remove the cups
10) Makes 24 muffins.

Friday, December 26, 2008

Almond Muffins


These nutty muffins are yummy, high in protein and make a good snack too.

Ingredients:
Flour - 2 cups
Milk - 3/4 cup
Almonds - 1/2 cup, chopped
Sugar - 1 cup
Oil - 1/2 cup
Egg - 1, well beaten
Baking powder - 3 tsp
Almond Extract - 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon - 1/4 tsp
Nut meg - 1/4 tsp
Salt - 1/8 tsp

Procedure:
1) Pre-heat the oven at 390 degrees
2) Mix together the egg, milk, oil and almond extract
3) In another bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt and chopped almonds.
4) Mix the two
5) Lightly grease the muffin pan or use paper cups in the muffin pan
6) Pour the mixture up to 2/3 level of the cup
5) Bake for about 15 minutes.