MUFFINS

Muffins are one of the fastest snacks to prepare. Good for kids' lunch boxes or for afternoon tea.

Muffins can be prepared in 2 ways - Creaming method & Muffin method. Personally, I prefer the latter as they are more traditionally 'muffin-like' (crumbly and more filling unlike the more cake like and fluffy nature of the other type). However, my kids love the cake like muffins and fortunately, I have an excellent muffin recipe that I can play with to get as many flavours and colours as I wish!

1 recipe many variations...time-saving indeed.

Ingredients:

Beat 50g butter + 70g fine sugar till pale and white

Add into it 1 beaten egg. Continue beating till evenly mixed

On medium speed, add 50g self-raising flour + 50g plain flour + 1 tbsp baking powder

On low speed, add 50g fresh milk. When mixture is well mixed, choose your flavouring.

Chocolate - add 50g chocolate chips + 15 g cocoa powder

Mocha - add 10 g cocoa powder + 1 tsp instant coffee powder (in 1 tbsp water)

Pandan/Screwpine flavour - add 1 tsp pandan paste + 2 drops green colouring

Blueberry - fold into mixture 100 g of blueberry filling

Carrot walnut - 1/2 cup chopped walnuts + 1/2 cup shredded carrot + drops of yellow colour

Apple - 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder + 2 tbsp applesauce

Strawberry - add 1 tsp of strawberry puree/jam right into each muffin cup already filled with mixture

Most of the time, I would sprinkle either coloured rice or hundreds and thousands on each muffin to make them more irresistibly attractive.