Yogurt Muffins

Pictured: yogurt muffins made with wild-picked huckleberries!

Original recipe from Joy of Baking.

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 loaf or ~15 muffins (after filling my muffin tins, I usally pour the extra batter into a mini loaf)

• 1 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 
• ½ t salt
• 1 recipe struesel topping, optional
• Variations (mix spices with dry ingredients, purees with wet, and fold chunks in last)
• Autumn: peel and chop 1 (or 1 can) apple, pear, or peach + 1 t cinnamon
• Banana: 2 mashed bananas + 1½ t cinnamon + opt ½ c chopped nuts
• Berry: 1-1½ c fresh or frozen berries 
• Cocoa: 1/3 c cocoa, minus 1/3 c flour + opt chocolate chips to taste
• Coconut: 1 c shredded coconut + 1½ t cinnamon + opt ½ c chopped nuts
• Fruity: 3/4 c jam (it's fine for jam to be chunky in the batter)
• Ginger: 1/2 c molasses + 4 t ginger +1½ t nutmeg +1 t cayenne 
• Pumpkin: 3/4 c (½ can) pumpkin puree + 1 t pumpkin pie spice
• Raisin: ½ c chopped walnuts (plain or roasted) + ½ c raisins/craisins + 1 t cinnamon 
• Rhubarb: 1-2 c diced rhubarb + ½ t cinnamon
• Zucchini: 1 c shredded zucchini + 1½ t cinnamon + opt ½ c chopped nuts

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease muffin tin or bread pan.
2. Beat wet ingredients, sift dry, mix together. Fold in optional fruit/nuts.
3. Bake. Ready when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• muffin tin: 15-20 min
• mini muffin tin: 10-12 min
• silicone muffin cups: 25-30 min
• loaf pan 40-60 min
• mini loaf pan: 20-25 min
4. *Batter can be made ahead and kept in the fridge. Bring to room temperature before baking.

Ingredients, Double:

Yield: 2 loaves or ~30 muffins, 36 mini muffins (after filling my muffin tins, I usally pour the extra batter into a mini loaf)

• 2 egg
• 2 c yogurt or sour cream
• ½ c olive oil or butter
• 2 t vanilla or maple extract (both are 👌 )
• 4 c wheat flour
• 1 c sugar
• 4 t baking powder
• 1 t soda 
• 1 t salt
• double recipe struesel topping, optional 
• Variations (mix spices with dry ingredients, purees with wet, and fold chunks in last)
• Autumn: peel and chop 2 (or 2 cans) apple, pear, or peach + 1 T cinnamon
• Banana: 4 mashed bananas + 1 T cinnamon + opt 1 c chopped nuts
• Berry: 2-3 c fresh or frozen berries 
• Cocoa: 2/3 c cocoa, minus 2/3 c flour + opt chocolate chips to taste
• Coconut: 2 c shredded coconut + 1 T cinnamon + opt 1 c chopped nuts
• Fruity: 1½ c jam (it's fine for jam to be chunky in the batter)
• Ginger: 1 c molasses + 2 1/2 T ginger +1 T nutmeg + 2 t cayenne 
• Pumpkin: 1½  c (1 can) pumpkin puree + 2 t pumpkin pie spice
• Raisin: 1 c chopped walnuts (plain or roasted) + 1 c raisins/craisins + 1 T cinnamon 
• Rhubarb: 2-4 c diced rhubarb + 1 t cinnamon
• Zucchini: 2 c shredded zucchini + 1 T cinnamon + opt 1 c chopped nuts