Saturday, August 24, 2013

Yogurt Muffins

Pictured: yogurt muffins made with wild-picked huckleberries!

Original recipe from Joy of Baking.

Ingredients:
  • 2 egg
  • 1 c yogurt or sour cream
  • ¼ c olive oil or butter
  • 1 t vanilla or maple extract (both are 👌 )
  • 2 c wheat flour
  • ½ c sugar
  • 2 t baking powder
  • ½ t soda 
  • ¼ t salt
  • Variations (mix spices with dry ingredients, purees with wet, and fold chunks in last)
    • Berry: 1-1½ c fresh or frozen berries 
    • Fruity: 3/4 c jam (it's fine for jam to be chunky in the batter)
    • Pumpkin: 3/4 c (½ can) pumpkin puree + 1 t pumpkin pie spice
    • Autumn: peel and chop 1 (or 1 can) apple, pear, or peach + 1 t cinnamon
    • Raisin½ c chopped walnuts (plain or roasted) + ½ c raisins/craisins + 1 t cinnamon 
    • Banana: 2 mashed bananas + 1½ t cinnamon + opt ½ c chopped nuts
    • Zucchini: 1 c shredded zucchini + 1½ t cinnamon + opt ½ c chopped nuts
    • Chocolate: 1/3 c cocoa, minus 1/3 c flour + opt chocolate chips to taste
    • Rhubarb: 1-2 c diced rhubarb, + ¼ t cinnamon
Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 375. Grease muffin tin or bread pan.
  2. Beat wet ingredients, sift dry, mix together. Fold in optional fruit/nuts.
  3. Bake muffins 15-20 min or loaf 40-60 min. Ready when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.


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