Muffin Mix

I've been on a huge muffin boot lately. I constitute a recipe from an online friend for zucchini, carrot, raisin muffins (recipe coming at roughly point). I sent her a banknote maxim I was making them, too she told me that she makes muffins every calendar week for her kids to receive got for breakfast. I idea it was genius! Especially the side past times side twenty-four hr menstruum when all I had to exercise was throw a muffin, roughly fruit, too roughly yogurt on a plate for each of my kids. Voila! breakfast was ready. I don't handgrip breakfast well. I'm non ever caffeinated when my kiddos desire to eat, too a lot of times at that spot are fights virtually what they're going to have. But no ane fought the muffins! I mentioned this at ane of my bible report groups, too my friend Sarah said she had a recipe for an all-purpose muffin mix, that you lot only mix upwards a huge batch too proceed it inward the pantry or freezer too line from it every bit needed too mix inward all sorts of things to brand dissimilar kinds of muffins. Genius!! I copied it downward at ane time too mixed it upwards the side past times side day. I only used the concluding of my mix this morning time (well, almost...there's perhaps 1/2 a loving cup left inward the container I was storing it in) too figured it was high fourth dimension to type out the recipe hence I didn't ever receive got to await for my scrap of newspaper on which the recipe is written when I desire to brand these up. I'll receive got to mix upwards roughly to a greater extent than tomorrow--I don't desire to endure without my mix!

Sarah's Muffin Mix
Source: My friend Sarah (who runs total marathons!)
Yield: 4 batches of muffins

viii cups flour
three cups sugar
three T. baking powder
ii t. salt
ii t. cinnamon
ii t. nutmeg

Combine to a higher house ingredients. Store inward pantry or freezer upwards to vi months.

For each batch of muffins:

2-3/4 cups muffin mix
1 egg
1 loving cup milk
1/2 loving cup butter, melted

Place muffin mix inward bowl. Whisk egg, milk, too butter together too stir into dry out ingredients. Include whichever mix-ins below (mix whatsoever dry out ingredients inward alongside mix, moisture ingredients or fruit into moisture ingredients or at the end). Fill muffin cups 3/4 full. Bake at 400 degrees for 18-21 minutes.

Add-Ins:
Banana: 1 loving cup mashed bananas
Cranberry Pecan: 1 loving cup chopped cranberries, 1/2 loving cup chopped pecans, three T. sugar
Cappuccino: 1 loving cup mini chocolate chips, ii t. instant java granules
Apple Cheese: 1/2 loving cup shredded apple, 1/2 loving cup colby jack cheese
Blueberry: 1 loving cup blueberries
Carrot Raisin: 3/4 loving cup shredded carrots, 1/3 loving cup golden raisins

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Sorry if the directions for when to mix inward what are vague. I didn't re-create that role downward because it all seemed self-explanatory to me. For most of the varieties I recollect I'd mix everything inward at the end, except the banana I'd mix inward alongside the moisture ingredients, the java granules I'd mix inward alongside the dry out ingredients. I recollect that's it.

So far I've made huckleberry muffins, chocolate scrap muffins, too this morning time I made banana chocolate chip. I know, I'm fancy. I recollect the banana chocolate scrap receive got been our favorite hence far. I'm dying to elbow grease the apple tree cheese, but my kids ate all the apples I bought concluding fourth dimension at the store. I'm too looking frontward to the carrot raisin--I LOVE carrot raisin muffins!

I did brand a few substitutions to the mix recipe. I used one-half whole wheat flour too one-half all-purpose flour. I too cutting the saccharide downward to 2.5 cups. Three cups seemed similar a lot (I recollect I figured it out to endure virtually a tablespoon per muffin if your batch made 12 muffins...mine commonly made 18-24 though), too summation the twenty-four hr menstruum I went to mix it upwards I exclusively had 2.5 cups of saccharide on hand. I figured I'd elbow grease it too run into how it turned out. Now I recollect I'll proceed it that way. I had meant to add together inward roughly solid position down flax seed to the mix but forgot when I mixed it upwards too hence kept forgetting each fourth dimension I brand a batch.

This was super, super slow too it's hence squeamish to receive got on hand! I've fifty-fifty made muffins commencement matter inward the morning time when I larn upwards to receive got for breakfast if nosotros were out, too it wasn't fourth dimension consuming at all. My kids don't fifty-fifty heed waiting a niggling longer for breakfast knowing they're going to larn a tasty warm muffin out of the deal!

If you lot brand these too elbow grease whatsoever other variations that you lot love, function out me a comment too allow me know what they were!

Hmnmm...apparently inward all the batches of muffins I've made, I haven't taken a film of whatsoever of them. Next time!