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Fancy Up Your Muffins
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| Monday, December 15, 2008 |
We introduced muffins to you last week and many of you bought our new Apple Muffin Mix oats. Now we'll tell you how "fancy" your muffins. We'll show you how to add a touch of orange to your muffins, put a fancy Graham crumb topping them with high or cream cheese. You can do this with Apple Muffins with oatmeal or a recipe of your choice.
First, to orange muffins. . .
Choose a recipe using baking soda (or baking soda and baking powder) as leaven. Baking soda is alkaline and needs an acid to complete the chemical reaction that causes the bubbles. Buttermilk acid is most often used. Since orange juice is an acid, you can use instead of buttermilk. Add a Streusel topping and include a tablespoon of orange zest.
Here is a Streusel topping mixture that works well:
Orange Nut Streusel Topping
1 / 2 cup walnut pieces
1 / 2 cup brown sugar
1 / 2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoon orange zest (zest of an orange large)
1 tablespoon cold butter
1. Chop nuts into small pieces.
2. Stir in walnuts, brown sugar, cinnamon and orange zest together.
3. Cut the cold butter with a pastry cutter or two table knives.
4. Spoon the mixture Streusel over batter evenly muffin before baking.
To put a fancy Graham crumb topping your muffins. . .
Oat-Graham-Brown Sugar Topping
1 / 2 cup brown sugar
1 / 4 cup oatmeal
2 sheets of graham crackers, crushed
1 / 2 teaspoon cinnamon
6 tablespoons cold butter, cut into pieces
1. Combine first four ingredients together.
2. Cut in butter with a pastry knife.
3. Spoon on top of the muffins.
4. Bake as directed.
To put a frosting cream cheese on your muffins. . .
Trim cream cheese
8 ounces cream cheese
4 tablespoons flour
1 / 2 c. Tea lemon extract
1 egg
1 / 3 cup sugar
Directions
1. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese until soft
2. Add remaining ingredients and continue beating until the mixture becomes soft and smooth.
3. Spoon mixture on top of the muffins.
4. Bake as directed. The seal will increase cooking time by at least several minutes. Be sure to test and cooking muffins with a toothpick inserted in the heart of the largest muffin. If it does not come clean, continue cooking.
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posted by neptunus @ 2:44 AM
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