Classic muffins

Muffins are fluffy and tender small-sized baked goods. There are several points to consider in the dough preparation technique. All products should be at room temperature, and the dough should not be kneaded for long so as not to lose its fluffiness and proper creamy texture. In our article you will definitely find a recipe to your liking and you will be able to treat your loved ones with magical pastries.

Classic muffins at home

Classic muffins are prepared at home in various ways. But you always want your baked goods to be fluffy and tasty; for this you need a proven recipe. You will also need small molds made of thick baking paper or silicone.

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   Classic muffins can easily be made at home. Prepare a large bowl, pour dry ingredients into it: wheat flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Wash the lemon or lime well, dry and grate the zest on a fine grater. Add it to the bowl.
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   Melt the butter over low heat, cool it slightly. In a separate container, mix chicken eggs, milk, ghee and vanilla extract.
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   Next, combine the dry ingredients and the liquid part of the dough.
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   Knead the dough until smooth, breaking up all lumps.
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   Pour the dough into molds. Fill them about 2/3 full.
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   Place the molds in the oven preheated to 180 degrees. The muffins should brown well and rise.
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   Remove the muffins from the mold. If desired, you can sprinkle them with powdered sugar. Bon appetit!

Chocolate muffins in the oven

Chocolate muffins in the oven are a wonderful pastry, one of the most popular and recognizable. At the same time, the muffin dough is unpretentious and easy to prepare. And if you add chocolate chips to it, the baked goods will be even more delicious, tender and melting.

Cooking time - 30 min.

Cooking time - 10 min.

Portions – 10.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 180 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 30 gr.
• Sugar – 120 gr.
• Milk – 140 gr.
• Butter – 120 gr.
• Table salt – 1 pinch.
• Black chocolate – 60 gr.
• Baking powder for dough – 1.5 tsp.
• Vanillin – 1.5 g.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Turn on the oven in advance and preheat it to 200 degrees. Prepare all products according to the list.

Step 2: Melt the butter in a saucepan on the stove or in the microwave.

Step 3. Cool the melted butter a little, pour milk into it and add vanillin, stir. Set the mixture aside.

Step 4. Sift the wheat flour, baking powder and cocoa into a bowl. Add sugar and a pinch of salt. Mix everything well, check that there are no lumps left. You can additionally sift the mixture through a sieve.

Step 5. Chop the chocolate into small pieces with a knife.If you like a sweeter taste, you can use a milk chocolate bar.

Step 6. In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients and cream and milk mixture. The mass should be homogeneous, but do not knead for long.

Step 7. Next, add chocolate chips to the dough and mix.

Step 8. The dough is ready, put it into molds. Do not fill them all the way to the top; the dough will rise during baking.

Step 9: Bake the chocolate muffins for 20 minutes. Check readiness by piercing a wooden toothpick. Cool the baked goods a little and you can try. Bon appetit!

Curd muffins

Curd muffins are a delicious dessert for everyday life and holidays. For everyday tea drinking, baked goods can be sprinkled with powdered sugar. And for an elegant holiday dessert, cheese muffins are complemented with cream cheese caps and fresh berries.

Cooking time – 60 min.

Cooking time – 35-40 min.

Portions – 12-16.

Ingredients:

• Cottage cheese – 200 gr.
• Butter – 120 gr.
• Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
• Peeled walnuts – 50 gr.
• Sugar – 150 gr.
• Vanilla sugar – 10 gr.
• Premium wheat flour – 250 gr.
• Table salt - on the tip of a knife.
• Baking powder for dough – 10 g.
• Powdered sugar - for decoration.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Cut the butter into small pieces and leave at room temperature for half an hour. During this time it will melt and become soft.

Step 2. Rub the cottage cheese through a fine sieve or punch it with an immersion blender. Dry the walnut kernels in a frying pan and chop with a knife.

Step 3. Break the eggs into a bowl, add both types of sugar and beat the ingredients with a mixer until smooth and fluffy. Add the curd mass to the soft butter and mix these products with an immersion blender.

Step 4.Then combine the egg and curd masses. Sift the flour through a sieve, along with salt and baking powder. Then add the resulting mixture to the dough in parts and mix each time with a mixer.

Step 5. Add the walnuts last. Divide the dough into the molds. Bake the muffins at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

Step 6. Cool the baked goods slightly, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with tea. Bon appetit!

Kefir muffins

Kefir muffins are a fairly simple baked product. The dough turns out tender, without a pronounced taste, so you can always add any berries and dried fruits. Then the muffins will be fluffy and juicy, it will be impossible to tear yourself away from them.

Cooking time – 45 min.

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Portions – 2.

Ingredients:

• Butter – 120 gr.
• Sugar – 150 gr.
• Kefir – 250 ml.
• Large chicken egg – 2 pcs.
• Premium wheat flour – 250 gr.
• Baking powder for dough – 2 tsp.
• Table salt - to taste.
• Vanillin – 2 gr.

Cooking process:

Step 1. All ingredients for the dough should be at room temperature. Immediately turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees.

Step 2: Melt the butter over low heat. Then cool it to room temperature.

Step 3. Break the chicken eggs into a wide bowl and beat them with a mixer until light in color at medium mixer speed.

Step 4. Without stopping whisking, gradually add sugar into the beaten eggs and vanilla.

Step 5. Work with the mixer for 5-8 minutes, the whipped mass will resemble dense light foam.

Step 6. Now pour ghee at room temperature into the resulting mass and mix.

Step 7. Do not add very cold or hot kefir to the dough.It should either be taken out of the refrigerator in advance, or heated over low heat and cooled. Pour kefir into the dough and mix well.

Step 8. Mix wheat flour, salt and baking powder in a separate container.

Step 9. Add the mixture of dry ingredients to the liquid part of the dough, mix with slow, gentle movements so as not to disturb the fluffiness of the egg mass.

Step 10. There should be no flour lumps left.

Step 11. Place the dough into special molds with a tablespoon, fill them 2/3 full.

Step 12: Bake the muffins for 20-25 minutes. Check the readiness of the baked goods with a toothpick; after puncture, it should remain dry.

Step 13. Cool the finished muffins on a wire rack and serve as a dessert for tea. Bon appetit!

Muffins in silicone molds in the oven

Muffins in silicone molds in the oven turn out fluffy and golden brown, and the dough does not stick to the walls and bottom. These mini-cupcakes are easy and quick to prepare; the recipe can be used when guests are on the doorstep, the kids want something sweet, or you need to figure out something for the get-together.

Cooking time – 40 min.

Cooking time – 40 min.

Portions – 12.

Ingredients:

• Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Vanillin – 1 gr.
• Odorless vegetable oil – 50 ml.
• Premium wheat flour – 1 tbsp.
• Dried cranberries – 100 gr.
• Powdered sugar - for decoration.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Turn on the oven and preheat it to 180 degrees. Moisten silicone molds with water. Beat chicken eggs with sugar and vanilla until fluffy light foam for 5 minutes at maximum speed.

Step 2. While continuing to whisk, pour vegetable oil into the mixture in a thin stream.

Step 3.Sift the wheat flour through a sieve and add it in small parts to the beaten eggs. Mix the dough with a spatula with slow movements from bottom to top.

Step 4. Wash and dry the dried cranberries. Add this ingredient as desired; you can also replace cranberries with other dried fruits. Add cranberries to the dough and stir it.

Step 5: Next, pour the muffin batter into the silicone molds. Place the forms with the dough on a baking sheet and place in a preheated oven for 25-30 minutes.

Step 6. Cool the muffins, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve. Bon appetit!

Muffins with cheese

Muffins with cheese are an original and very nutritious pastry that can be baked for breakfast or served as a snack on a holiday table. You can use absolutely any cheese at your discretion; it largely determines the taste of the muffins.

Cooking time – 60 min.

Cooking time – 35-40 min.

Portions – 7.

Ingredients:

• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Hard cheese – 150 gr.
• Premium wheat flour – 1 tbsp.
• Milk – 1 tbsp.
• Table salt – ¼ tsp.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Baking powder for dough – 1 tsp.
• Ground paprika - to taste.
• Ground red pepper - to taste.
• Sesame - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Grate the hard cheese using a fine-hole grater.

Step 2. Sift the wheat flour into a deep bowl, add baking powder, paprika and ground red pepper.

Step 3. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance and leave at room temperature for half an hour to an hour. Then mix the melted butter with the egg and milk. Add dry ingredients to the resulting mass and mix. Then add the cheese shavings and mix the dough well again.

Step 4.Place the cheese dough into silicone molds and sprinkle sesame seeds on top. Bake at 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Step 5. The finished baked goods are very easy to remove from the molds and turn out golden brown and fragrant. Serve cheese muffins with tea or, for example, chicken broth. Bon appetit!

Banana muffins

Banana muffins are baked goods with a bright flavor and a moist crumb. Muffins are usually baked in special silicone molds. The beauty of this baking is its simplicity and speed of preparation. That's why muffins are so often prepared for breakfast.

Cooking time – 35 min.

Cooking time - 15 minutes.

Portions – 10.

Ingredients:

• Ripe banana – 1 pc.
• Baking powder for dough – 1 tsp.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Sugar – 80 gr.
• Large chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Premium wheat flour – 130 gr.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Measure all the products according to the list, wash the banana with hot water.

Step 2. Grate the banana or mash it with a fork if it is very ripe and soft. Add sugar and chicken egg to the banana mixture, mix well.

Step 3. Grate the butter using a grater with large holes. Place the shavings in a bowl.

Step 4. Sift wheat flour and baking powder through a sieve. Pour the mixture into a bowl with banana and oil, stir the dough until smooth.

Step 5. Place the resulting dough into small silicone molds. Fill them 2/3 full. Then bake the muffins in the oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Step 6. Cool the finished banana muffins on a wire rack and serve with tea. Bon appetit!

Muffins with chocolate inside

Muffins with chocolate inside - baked goods with a surprise. These are special muffins that are prepared in a special way.For the filling, you can choose any type of chocolate: white, milk or black, whatever you like best.

Cooking time – 50 min.

Cooking time - 15 minutes.

Portions – 10.

Ingredients:

• Kefir 3.2% – 1 tbsp.
• Vanilla extract – ½ tsp.
• Chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
• Sugar – 150 gr.
• Baking powder for dough – 1 tsp.
• Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp.
• Premium wheat flour – 250 gr.
• Milk chocolate bar – 1 pc.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare all the products; you can take any chocolate you like.

Step 2. Break the chicken eggs into a bowl for kneading the dough, add sugar and whisk the ingredients.

Step 3: Add baking powder. It can be replaced with soda slaked with vinegar.

Step 4. Pour kefir into the beaten eggs and add vanilla extract, mix.

Step 5. Add wheat flour sifted through a sieve to the dough.

Step 6. Divide the dough into two parts, add cocoa to one and mix well.

Step 7. Pour half of the white dough into the silicone molds. Place a piece of chocolate into each mold.

Step 8: Pour the chocolate batter on top to coat the chocolate pieces.

Step 9. Bake the muffins in the oven at 200 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Check the doneness of the baked goods by piercing them with a toothpick. Cool the chocolate muffins for tea before serving. Bon appetit!

PP carrot muffins

PP carrot muffins will allow you to eat deliciously and follow all the principles of proper nutrition. But baking will appeal not only to those who watch the consumption of excess calories, but also to those with a sweet tooth. Carrots give muffins a unique taste and bright color.

Cooking time - 30 min.

Cooking time - 30 min.

Portions – 6.

Ingredients:

• Carrots – 100 gr.
• Low-fat kefir – 80 ml.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Whole grain wheat flour – 90 gr.
• Natural honey – 1 tbsp.
• Table salt – 1 pinch.
• Baking powder for dough – 0.5 tsp.
• Vegetable oil – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Peel and wash the carrots, prepare all other products according to the list.

Step 2. Grate the carrots on a fine grater. Break a chicken egg into a bowl, pour in kefir and add chopped carrots.

Step 3. Add a tablespoon of natural honey and a pinch of salt.

Step 4. Mix whole wheat flour with baking powder.

Step 5. Sift the flour and baking powder through a sieve into a bowl. Knead the carrot dough until smooth.

Step 6. Grease muffin tins with vegetable oil. Then spread the carrot dough into them. Bake the muffins in the oven at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

Step 7. Appetizing, healthy and incredibly tasty carrot muffins are ready, serve them after they have cooled a little. Bon appetit!

Cherry muffins

Cherry muffins are fluffy baked goods with a balanced sweet and sour taste. Of course, you need to use seedless berries, fresh or frozen. With such a baked dessert, your tea party or coffee break will become a real fairy tale.

Cooking time – 60 min.

Cooking time - 30 min.

Portions – 24.

Ingredients:

• Large chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
• Butter – 60 gr.
• Premium wheat flour – 380-400 gr.
• Baking powder for dough – 1 tsp.
• Baking soda – ½ tsp.
• Table salt – ½ tsp.
• Ground cinnamon – 1 tsp.
• Sour cream – 350 gr.
• Pitted cherries – 180 gr.
• Vanilla extract – 1 tsp.
• Sugar – 180 gr.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Melt the butter over low heat and cool it. Also remove the eggs from the refrigerator in advance so that they warm up to room temperature.Turn on the oven and preheat it to 170 degrees.

Step 2: Place paper liners in muffin tins and grease them with any oil you like. In a bowl, sift the wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon and salt through a fine sieve.

Step 3. In another, larger bowl, mix eggs and sugar using a mixer. Then pour melted butter into the airy mass, add sour cream and vanilla extract.

Step 4. Next, combine the dry ingredient mixture and the liquid portion of the dough. Place pitted cherries into the resulting homogeneous mass and stir.

Step 5. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full with batter. Arrange the pans on a baking sheet.

Step 6. Bake cherry muffins in the oven for 20-30 minutes. Remove them from the oven and leave them to cool slightly for 5 minutes. Then remove them from the pans onto a wire rack to cool completely. Bon appetit!