Recently, my girl started to learn cooking & baking in school. She brought back her apple muffins the other day and I was quite amazed by the soft and moist texture of the muffins and pestered her for the recipe. I tried it out, but alas, the muffin did not turn out as nice as hers. Upon more investigation, we realized that the teachers did not follow the recipe!
Unable to get over the taste of her muffins, I went in search of a recipe on the internet and found this. My daughter said it tasted better than hers...
Ingredients :
115g unsalted butter, melted
200g brown sugar
165ml milk
1 large egg
1tsp white vinegar (optional)
300g wholemeal/ plain flour
1tsp baking soda
t tsp cinnamon powder
A pinch of salt
2 cups of diced apple
Method :
1) Preheat oven to 200deg.
2) Place melted butter and brown sugar in a bowl and whisk
3) Add milk, then egg and vinegar. Whisk to combine
4) Pour flour into the mixture over a few times. Followed by baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Whisk about 10 times until flour is incorporated - some lumps is fine.
5) Stir in the apple - minimum stirs, just to disperse the apple.
6) Scoop the mixture into muffin cases. Sprinkle some sugar on top of the muffins if you want a crispy top.
7) Turn the temperature of the oven down to 180 deg.
8) Bake the muffins for about 20 min
After thoughts :
1) I cut a generous 2 large apples as I want to juicy bits and more distinct apple taste.
2) Recipe yielded 21 muffins for me.
3) For my oven, I turned the temperature down to 170 deg before putting in the muffins.
4) Muffins were indeed moist and soft. But I think I might cut down on the amount of sugar next time. It tasted a tad sweet to me.
