Banana Almond Butter Muffin

The goal for this new year is to use very less sugar in whatever I bake.  While going through many sites, I came to know that honey can be substituted as sugar along with fruits which are naturally sweet. I tried this muffin recipe this weekend and it came out spongy. I took the basic banana peanut butter recipe from allrecipes.com and changed the ingredients according to this muffin. Here goes the recipe.

Pineapple Muffins - No Guilt Snack

So, I call this a no guilt snack.  Why? Reason is I used few ingredients which are really good for health and you don't have to feel bad for eating a sweet.  First thing here I used Whole wheat atta instead of APF. I used EVOO for butter, Low fat yogurt for full fat sour cream, egg whites for 2 eggs and Xylitol instead of sugar.  You can read about the goodness of this sweetner here.

Honey Bunches of Oats Muffin

I got the recipe from a book called 1001 Cupcakes, cookies & Other Tempting Treats.  I got the book from Barnes & Noble couple of months back and finally started trying few goodies from it. The original recipe is made with Museli. I replaced Honey Bunches of oats for Museli. It came super good and I added few chocolate chips in each muffin. Here goes the recipe.

Ingredients:-

1. All Purpose Flour - 1 cup
2. Baking powder -  1 tbsp
3. Honey bunches of Oats Cereal - heaping 1 1/4 cups
4. Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup (I used regular white sugar)
5. Eggs - 2 ( I used 1/3 cup of egg whites)
6. Buttermilk - 1 cup 
7. sunflower oil - 6 tbsp ( I used canola Oil)
8. chocolate chips - 1/4 cup

Pre heat oven to 400 degrees. Line a 12 hole muffin pan with paper lines or spray it and keep it ready. Sift together the flour and baking powder into a large bowl. Stir the cereal and sugar.  Place the eggs in a large pitcher and beat lightly. Then  beat in the buttermilk and oil. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the beaten liquid.  Stir gently until just combined.  Spoon the batter into paper liners. Sprinkle chocolate chips. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until well risen, golden brown. Let it cool for 5 minutes and serve warm. 

I am sending this post to Cooking with Love -  Granddad Event, hosted by Shama.

Strawberry Muffin

I got this Strawberry Muffin recipe from AllRecipes.com. I followed the same recipe and the outcome was awesome as you can see in the picture. The taste was also wonderful..

Oatmeal chocolate chip Muffins

These muffins I made last week. Kids really loved it. I followed the recipe from my all time favorite allrecipes.com.  I exactly followed the same recipe except the addition of sugar. I reduced the quantity of sugar.

Ingredients:-

1. 1 1/4 cups quick cooking oats
2. 1 1/4 cups milk
3. 1 egg
4. 1/2 cup vegetable oil
5. 1 /2cup sugar (the recipe asked for 3/4 cup brown sugar)
6. 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
7.   3/4 cup chopped walnuts
8. 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
9. 4 teaspoons baking powder
10. 1 teaspoon salt

Combine oats and milk and allow to stand for 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease the muffin tray/cups.  Stir egg, oil, 1/2 cup of the sugar, chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of the walnuts into the oat and milk mixture. Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add oat mixture to flour mixture, stirring until just moist. Fill each muffin cups 2/3 full. Sprinkle tops with the remaining walnuts. Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes. According to the original recipe, you will get 12 muffins from the above ingredients. I used three different sizes of muffin cups (thanks to Delhi markets) and I managed to get 20 muffins.

Wheat-Walnut-Raisin Muffin

After moving back from US, I didn't do any baking. We bought a convention oven here but I am kinda scared to try baking in convention oven. But then kids started asking me for cookies. We were buying cookies from shops. They started getting their stomach flu very often. We were not sure whether its because of cookies. Not to blame anybody, instead of buying those biscuits and cookies, I thought of start baking them again. This muffins I baked today and it came out pretty good.

Ingredients:-

1. Wheat Flour - 1 cup  (I used Pillsbury multi-grain atta)
2. Baking powder - 1 tsp
3. Egg - 1
4. Salt - 1/4 tsp
5. Milk - 1/2 cup
6. Sugar - 1/4 cup 
7. Butter - 1/4 cup
8. Cinnamon - 1/2 tsp
9. Raisins - 1  tbsp
10. Walnut - 1 tbsp (chopped)

Mix the dry ingredients well. Incorporate the wet ingredients (Milk, egg, Melted buter) one by one and mix everything well. Add raisins & walnuts to it. Mix it well. In the mean time, pre heat ovento 220 degrees.. Now pour the batter in muffin cups and bake it upto 25 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean. I baked it for 24 minutes.  I got 8 muffins from the above said quantity.

I am sending this muffins to Srilekha's EFM- Cakes & Bakes along with my

Blueberry Muffins,

Banana-Mango Muffin

& Eggless Apple Muffin

Eggless Apple Muffin

Well I got this recipe from Trupti's blog. I almost followed the same recipe except cinnamon powder and apple sauce. My husband doesn't like cinnamon and I didn't have apple sauce. So I had to skip those two. Other than that, I followed the same. Here is the recipe...

Ingredients:-

1. All Purpose flour - 2 cups
2. Sugar - 1/2 cup
3. Baking powder - 2 1/2 tsp
4. Apples - 1 (if it is big or two if it is medium/small)
5. Vegetable oil - 1/2 cup (I used canola oil)
6. Sour cream - 1/2 cup ( I used fat free sour cream)
7. Raisins - 2 tbsp
8. Salt - 1/2 tsp

Preheat over to 400 degrees. Line the muffin pan with liners. Mix the dry ingredients well. Grate the apple into thin strips or chop it finely. In a small bowl, whisk sour cream and vegetable oil well and keep it aside. In a separate bowl, mix dry ingredients, raisins, grated apples and the wet ingredients well. Fill the muffin cups 3/4th and bake it for 230 to 23 mts until golden brown or till a tooth pick comes out clean from it. I let my twins to fill the muffin cups. Thats why my muffins are in different shapes...

Mango & Banana Muffin

I can eat mangoes any time. I love this fruit. While I was reading a post in Ramya Bala's blog, I came across this recipe which tempted me to try and I followed the same recipe with some changes. Here is the recipe I followed.

Ingredients:-

1. All purpose flour (maida) - 1 1/2 cups
2. Salt - little less than 1/4 tsp
3. Baking Soda - 1 tsp
4. Baking powder - 2 tsp
5. Sugar - 1/2 cup
   
6. Eggs - 2
7. mango Pulp - 1/2 cup
8. Mashed Banana - 1/2 cup
9. Butter - 1/2 cup **

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a bowl, mix all the dry ingredients well so that it mixes together. In a separate bowl, beat eggs adding a teaspoon of water. Add it to the dry ingredients along with mango pulp and mashed banana. Mix the batter well so that no lumps are formed. Arrange the muffin cups and fill the cups with 3/4th of batter. Bake it for 15 mts or until it becomes golden brown. Check it inserting a tooth pick and it should come out clean. The final result was really amazing. My husband said, it tasted like banana nut muffin. But i didn't added nuts. May be next time I will add nuts instead of mango pulp.

** - I added crisco instead of butter. the measurements will be given in the crisco box that how to replace it in the place of butter. I followed the same instruction to replace butter

Blueberry Muffins

When my girls were 2 years old, they watch Barney everyday and in that series, I like the Muffin Man song. Somehow or the other I sing that song everyday... I donno why but I like to sing that song. Whenever we go out to lunch or dinner at Sweet Tomatoes, I eat this blueberry muffins there with a dallop of butter. Their muffins are really moist and soft...Even though my muffins were not that professional, it came out pretty good. Recipe I followed to make this muffins...

Ingredients:-

1. All Purpose flour - 1 cup
2. Baking powder - 1 tsp
3. Salt - 1/2 tsp
4. Egg - 1
5. Milk - 1/2 cup
6. White sugar - 3/4 cup (acc to taste)
7. Blue Berries - 3/4 cup ***
8. Margarine - little less than 1/4 cup
9. Vanilla Extract - 1/2 tsp
10. All purpose flour - little less than 1/4 cup

Pre heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease muffin tins, or line cups with paper liners. Sprinkle little less than 1/4 cup flour over blueberries, and stir to coat berries thoroughly. In a small bowl, whisk together a cups of all purpose flour(ingredient 1), baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, cream margarine, and gradually mix sugar. Beat egg and stir into creamed mixture along with vanilla. Stir in milk alternately with flour mixture, mixing well after each addition. Fold in berries. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full with batter. Bake for 25 mts. The above said ingredient is enough for 12 muffins...

*** - I used a full cup of fresh blueberries, but that was too much for the muffins.