Classic muffins - small, fragrant, airy muffins with a perfect taste.
Most often, chocolate, with cherry or cottage cheese is prepared. But there are other options for popular baking. Why not try them in your kitchen?
Classic muffins - general principles of preparation
Classic muffin dough is prepared by separately mixing dry and wet ingredients. Due to this, the mass is obtained as it should be. But, not all recipes apply this rule.
The main ingredients of the classic dough:
• 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 indicated in the recipe.
• Sugar. It is permissible to replace with powder.
• Rippers. Used baking powders from sachets. In muffins, this component is not customary to replace with soda, since quenching gives additional moisture.
For taste, chocolate, raisins, cocoa powder and other ingredients are added. The dough is laid out in small molds. Muffins are not baked in common dishes.
Classic Chocolate Muffins
The famous recipe for classic chocolate muffins. It is used for filling, so you can immediately take droplets or chop pieces into tiles. Add dark cocoa powder to the dough.
Ingredients
• oil 90 g;
• 60 g of chocolate;
• 100 g sugar;
• 20 g of cocoa;
• 1.5 tsp cultivator;
• two eggs;
• 1 pinch of soda;
• 150 g of milk;
• flour 0.2 kg.
Cooking
1. According to the rules, mix the dry ingredients in a bowl. Muffin flour is used only premium and sifted. We combine it with cocoa, a small pinch of soda, a cultivator. Sugar is added to the liquid.
2. Whole milk should have room temperature. Mix it with eggs and sugar, beat with a whisk until smooth, the mixer is optional.
3. Melt the butter, cool. Add fat to the milk.
4. Now you need to combine both mixtures. You get chocolate dough.
5. Take a bar of chocolate, chop with a knife into small pieces. Spread in the cooked dough. Stir.
6. Place the molds on a baking sheet or place in a special tray. We fill the test with two-thirds of the volume.
7. Place in a preheated oven. Classic muffins are baked at 180 ° C (if the oven is convection, then 170 is enough). Cook for 20 minutes, then turn off the oven and leave it to stand for another ten minutes. Take out.
Classic Muffins with Cherry
A recipe for cherry butter muffins. Here the kneading technology is slightly different. Oil needs to be taken out in heat in advance, the product has to be softened.
Ingredients
• 0.5 tbsp. Sahara;
• oil 130 grams;
• milk 3 tbsp. l .;
• 160 g of cherries (seedless weight);
• 0.7 tsp cultivator;
• three eggs;
• 160 g of flour;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Cut the butter into slices, put in a bowl, keep warm for an hour. Or we immediately take a softened product.
2. Pour sugar. Continue whipping with a mixer until the grains are completely dissolved.
3. Add one egg at a time. Then pour milk. Beat together.
4. Combine the flour with all the dry ingredients, add to the dough, stir.
5. From the cherries we take out the seeds. If the berries are frozen, first let them thaw.
6. Stir the prepared cherries into the dough.
7. Throw in the molds, send to the baking sheet.
8. Bring to readiness. The optimum temperature for treats is 170-175 ° C. For cupcakes of standard size, it will take half an hour.
Classic raisin muffins
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 cognac.
Ingredients
• three eggs;
• milk 35 ml;
• 150 g flour;
• 120 g of raisins;
• 2 tablespoons of rum;
• 7 g of a baking cultivator;
• oil drain. 130 grams.
Cooking
1. Wash raisins, pour rum, mix, leave for the time of kneading dough. If replacement is necessary, we take another alcoholic drink, but you do not need to pour a lot.
2. Butter whisked for five minutes. Then sugar is gradually added to it. You can take powder to speed up the process. The mass should become lush and uniform.
3. Add milk to butter, do not stop whipping.
4. Next, eggs are added. Interrupt thoroughly until smooth.
5. Add the dry ingredients of the recipe.
6. At the very end, we introduce the prepared raisins in the rum.
7. Stir, scatter the fragrant dough in the molds.
8. Such muffins are baked for half an hour at 175-180, it is desirable to control the readiness with a toothpick.
American Classic Blueberry Muffins
American blueberry muffins recipe. Baking is very tender, sweet and light, and it can also be prepared very quickly. A great recipe for those with guests on the doorstep. Recipe in vegetable oil.
Ingredients
• 180 ml of milk;
• 0.2 kg of sugar;
• egg;
• 100 ml of oil rust. without smell;
• 250 g flour;
• 100 g blueberries;
• salt, vanilla;
• 10 g of ripper.
Cooking
1. Pour milk in one bowl, add vegetable oil to it and introduce one egg. These are all ingredients of the mixture. Shake with a whisk until smooth.
2. In another bowl we combine everything that remains according to the recipe.
3. The berries are sorted, washed and dried. If frozen blueberries are used, then before that we give it to thaw.
4. Now combine the milk mixture and bulk products, stir the dough with a spoon or spatula.
5. Add the prepared blueberries. Similarly, currants or cherries can be used in this recipe.
6. We put the mixed dough into molds.
7. Sending 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 microwave muffins (chocolate-nut)
The recipe is very quick and easy to make classic muffins. Since a microwave oven will be used for baking, you need to take silicone molds.
Ingredients
• 9 tablespoons of flour;
• 8 tablespoons of powder;
• 3 tablespoons of cocoa;
• 2 eggs;
• 40 ml of water;
• 100 ml of milk;
• 1 spoon chopped nuts;
• 100 g of oil;
• 50 g of chocolate;
• 1 tsp cultivator.
Cooking
1. We mix eggs and all liquids.
2. Add melted, but not hot butter.
3. In another container we combine all the dry ingredients of the recipe. Stir thoroughly so that lumps do not form during kneading.
4. Nuts are used chopped walnuts, but you can take peanuts. We also chop chocolate.
5. Combine nuts with chocolate and a loose mixture for the dough.
6. Pour it all into a milk preparation with an egg.
7. Stir the dough for muffins until smooth.
8. We lay out in the molds. On top, you can sprinkle additional nuts.
9. Put the molds in the microwave, try to arrange them at an 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 turn it on again for 30-40 seconds at the same power, let stand a minute after baking.
Classic Liquid Muffins
Another version of muffins, but not simple, but with liquid filling. This classic recipe is also from America. To get baked goods with wet cream, you do not need to be a genius. It's all about baking.
Ingredients
• 150 g of chocolate;
• two eggs;
• 45 g flour;
• 50 g of oil;
• 50 g of sugar.
Cooking
1. Chocolate must be taken high-quality with a high cocoa content (at least 70%). Break into pieces, drop into a bowl.
2. Add oil, send everything together to a water bath. Melt the mixture until smooth, cool.
3. Eggs and sugar should be beaten until foam.
4. Combine with the chocolate mixture.
5. Add the flour, stir the dough until smooth and immediately pour it into the molds.
6. Put in a preheated oven (180 ° C) for 7-8 minutes. The task is to bake the edges, top and bottom of the miniature cupcakes, but the middle should remain raw.
7. We take it out of the oven, transfer the muffins to serving plates, serve warm. You can supplement the product with cream, ice cream, fruit or just sprinkle with sweet powder.
Classic cottage cheese muffins
The classic recipe for curd muffins. The baking is light and airy, while it has a creamy aroma. You can add raisins or nuts to this dough.
Ingredients
• 70 g of oil;
• 150 g of cottage cheese;
• 150g flour;
• two eggs;
• 1 sec. l (with tubercle) ripper;
• 140 g of sugar.
Cooking
1. Rub the cottage cheese until smooth, there should not be large pieces in the product.
2. Beat butter with cottage cheese together, gradually introduce sugar. After dissolving all the grains, add the eggs one at a time, stir.
3. It's time to pour flour and baking powder into the dough. Mix.
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. Lay out the dough. As usual, you do not need to fill the molds to the top.
6. Set to bake. The temperature of the warmed oven is 180. Cook until dry.
Classic Muffins - Tips & Tricks
• Molds for muffins before pouring the dough can be greased and sprinkled with crackers, cocoa powder. A crust on pastries will be more interesting.
• Instead of vanilla, you can add a little ground zest to the classic muffins. The aroma will be amazing.
• If you need to cook pastries with juicy berries, then before laying them in the dough, you need to squeeze them well. Otherwise, the preparation of the wet mass may be delayed, and the taste and appearance may suffer.
