Making Amends 3C Muffins
Baking smells for a wake up call.
A warm muffin for breakfast
Chocolate in the first bite.
Earns forgiveness. 100%
After yesterday's disaster, I felt obliged to make a good muffin, good from both our points of view.
So here goes
Group II
Preheat oven to 175 deg C or 350 deg F
Mix group 1 ingredients througly, with finger tips preferably. Ensure the yellow besan is evenly spread through the flours.
In another bowl, beat group II ingredients until homogenous, 10 minutes by hand, 5 by hand held mixer; First mix the yogurt and sugars, then the oil, eggs 1 at a time, finally the essence.
Pour Group I into Group II and mix gently.
Fold Group III into the mix.
Pour into a buttered muffin pan and bake 20 - 25 minutes until golder brown and a toothpick inserted in the centre brings out just some crumbs, not wet liquid.
Notes:
Gau craves vanilla cupcakes :) This is a roaring success. gau asked me to pack a couple to eat in the van after he had the first muffin.
Substituting yogurt for butter, wholewheat for APF, a good blend of fruits and veggies and substituting some protein (besan) for carbs (whole wheat).
This is my submission to the Mad Scientist, Archana Potdar's , fast food not fat food. This even was lauched by Priya initially.
I was looking at TangyMinds blog and admiring her cake decoration when I realized, the muffin follows the cake recipe of bake along quite closely.
So I decided to submit this recipe to the bake along.
Bake Along Challenge is twice a month bloghop, hosted by Joyce from Kitchen Flavours, Lena from Frozen Wings and Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids.
My nephew and niece turn 1 on tuesday, 18th Sep, this is the cake decoration they are going to get :) I didn't want to overload them with buttercream icing. This is perfect and beautiful!
A warm muffin for breakfast
Chocolate in the first bite.
Earns forgiveness. 100%
After yesterday's disaster, I felt obliged to make a good muffin, good from both our points of view.
So here goes
Carrot - Coconut - Chocolate - Muffin
Group I
1 cup whole wheat flour (aata)
2/3 cup chickpea flour (besan)
1/3 cup all purpose flour (maida)
1/2 - 1 tsp chai masala (or a combination of cinnaom, cloves, nutmeg, dry ginger)
1 tsp baking powder
Group II
1 cup yogurt
1/4 cup oil
3 medium sized eggs
1/3 cup regular sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
Group III
2 medium carrots grated (about 1 - 1.5 cups)
1/2 coconut grated ( 0.5 - 1 cup)
1 sweet lime juiced
1 apple peeled and coarsely grated into above sweet lime
1 pear peeled and coarsely grated into above sweet lime.
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup walnuts/almonds/pistachio chopped
Preheat oven to 175 deg C or 350 deg F
Mix group 1 ingredients througly, with finger tips preferably. Ensure the yellow besan is evenly spread through the flours.
In another bowl, beat group II ingredients until homogenous, 10 minutes by hand, 5 by hand held mixer; First mix the yogurt and sugars, then the oil, eggs 1 at a time, finally the essence.
Pour Group I into Group II and mix gently.
Fold Group III into the mix.
Pour into a buttered muffin pan and bake 20 - 25 minutes until golder brown and a toothpick inserted in the centre brings out just some crumbs, not wet liquid.
Notes:
- Takes just 45 minutes to do, end to end.
- I made 22 muffins on the smaller side.
- The vanilla essence takes the edge off the chai masala and gives the whole dish a sweeter feel. The pepper/ginger in the chai masala adds a bite. Together, an awesome combo.
- These muffins don't rise much, but they have a light crumb.
- This could serve as dessert too, or evening snack...
- I almost always use this proportion of ingredients for baking (Group I and II; chai masala is a rare addition). The oil is to preserve the moisture after day 1 in the fridge. This is a fairly low fat muffin.
- You cannot taste the besan distinctin the muffin. Yay! I did not have any pottukadalai, so I used the long forgotten box of besan in the fridge.I was so worried I had messed up the muffin.
Gau craves vanilla cupcakes :) This is a roaring success. gau asked me to pack a couple to eat in the van after he had the first muffin.
Substituting yogurt for butter, wholewheat for APF, a good blend of fruits and veggies and substituting some protein (besan) for carbs (whole wheat).
This is my submission to the Mad Scientist, Archana Potdar's , fast food not fat food. This even was lauched by Priya initially.
I was looking at TangyMinds blog and admiring her cake decoration when I realized, the muffin follows the cake recipe of bake along quite closely.
So I decided to submit this recipe to the bake along.
Bake Along Challenge is twice a month bloghop, hosted by Joyce from Kitchen Flavours, Lena from Frozen Wings and Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids.
My nephew and niece turn 1 on tuesday, 18th Sep, this is the cake decoration they are going to get :) I didn't want to overload them with buttercream icing. This is perfect and beautiful!
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