Muffins galore!

Good Afternoon reader! Yesterday I promised muffins, today I deliver. I have 2 lots for you: orange muffins and jam doughnut muffins, mmm, sound good, don't they? I found them both on the best recipes website. Well, the orange ones didn't turn out quite as I'd expected, because I changed the recipe. Of course I did, it's what I do! The thing of it is that orange, while being a lovely flavour, needs something else to carry it along. The original recipe called for sultanas in too, but I don't love sultanas in cakes, so I gave them a miss. I should have subbed chocolate or almonds or poppyseeds. It wasn't bad, just not great. Please have a play with them, using different ingredients if you're going to have a crack at them.

Orange (and some random other thing, if you want to put it in there, I know I should have) Muffins
Ingredients:

2 oranges, chopped
2/3 cup caster sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup OJ
100 gms butter, melted
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bi carb soda
(1/2 cup of whatever you like; chocolate, almonds, poppyseeds, etc)
Method:

Preheat oven to 200C fan forced and grease a 12 muffin tin
Peel and chop oranges into little pieces
Add all the ingredients together in a bowl and stir until well combined
Scoop mix evenly into greased tin and bake for about 15 mins. When a clean skewer, inserted into the centre of a muffin, comes out clean, they are ready.
Eat and enjoy!


My next recipe is the one I'm quite excited about. I did change this one around alot, more than I usually would. The reason is that when I read it first, it sounded like it would be better as cupcakes. So, I ditched the method, changed the ingredients a bit and came up with my own. I hope it works!
Jam Doughnut Muffins
Ingredients:

2 cups S.R. flour
2/3 cup caster sugar
1 egg, at room temperature
300 mls buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla extract
4.5 tsp jam - I used plum, but use whatever you have
100 gms butter, softened
1 tsp cinnamon, plus more for coating tin

Method:

Preheat oven to 180C, 160C fan forced
Grease a muffin tin with butter and coat the inside of each hole with cinnamon, get as even a coating as possible, see below:

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add the egg and continue beating until well combined. Add all the other ingredients, except the jam, to the butter/sugar mix and stir well to combine.
Place a small amount of mix in each hole, then add 1/2 tsp of jam into each one, then put the rest of the mix on. I only made 9 from this recipe, however, as you can see, mine came out really ginormous, so you may want to make 12 medium sized ones or 6 stupidly sized ones. Up to you really, I won't judge.

Cook for about 15 or 20 minutes, you know the drill, be sure to check them. Mine actually came out pretty good, and bigger than Texas!!
I'm off to make chocolate cake, I will post about it later because it's the best recipe EVER for mud cake - there's only about 6 ingredients!!

Bye!