What will be the dough for the cake depends solely on those ingredients that you add to it. Accordingly, the taste of the dessert may be different each time. Spending a lot of time on its preparation will not be necessary. Just a few minutes will be enough to get the perfect base for this baking.
Raisin Sponge Cake
This is perhaps the easiest muffin pastry to make an incredibly delicious dessert. For him they take:
- 225 g of flour.
- 180 g of sugar.
- Half a pack of margarine.
- 8 full spoons of sour cream.
- A couple of eggs.
- Half a teaspoon of soda.
- A handful of raisins.
- 0.5 g of vanillin.
A couple of hours before making the dough, we take margarine from the refrigerator and leave it at room temperature. When it becomes soft enough, pour it with sugar and rub it thoroughly. Add sour cream, 2 egg yolks, soda and a small pinch of vanillin. Gently mix the ingredients until smooth. Add the raisins, sift the flour and carefully introduce the whites to the foam into the dough, whisking them from bottom to top. This dough is baked for muffins in tins at 190 ° for 20-25 minutes.
Dough without eggs
We can say with confidence that this muffin test recipe is the most budget one. And the pastries made from it literally melt in your mouth. Prepare the products:
- A quarter liter of kefir.
- 180 g of sugar.
- 320 g flour.
- 80-85 ml rast. oils.
- 7 g of soda.
A little warm up the kefir and dissolve soda in it. In this case, the mass should give bubbles. Pour the indicated portion of sugar, pour in the oil and sift the flour through a fine sieve. The result should be a dough, which in consistency will be like liquid sour cream. Before baking, the mass is allowed to insist a little so that it comes up.
Red wine dough with chocolate
This is a dessert for true gourmets. This mixture of ingredients gives a slightly moist, but at the same time very delicate texture of the finished baking.
We propose to consider the following option for making dough for muffins with a photo of the result. For the recipe we take:
- A pack of oil.
- A glass (with a hill) of sugar.
- A little vanilla (for flavor).
- 4 eggs.
- 8 g ground cinnamon.
- A quarter of a bar of chocolate.
- Incomplete glass of flour.
- 1 g of salt.
- 12 g of baking powder.
- Half a glass of red wine.
- 30 g of cocoa.
Let the oil warm at room temperature, add sugar and grind the products until a light shade is obtained. Enter the eggs, driving them one at a time. Sift the flour into a bowl, mix it with cocoa powder, a pinch of salt and a baking powder. Combine the bulk ingredients with a sugar-butter mixture. Pour the wine and melted chocolate. We mix everything. This dough is baked in large form for an hour at 175 °.
On kefir with jam
Such a dough for a cake is very convenient in that it does not stick to the mold, and therefore there is no need to lubricate it with oil. For cooking, you should take:
- A couple of eggs.
- A glass of kefir.
- Half a pack of oil.
- Half a glass of sugar.
- 25 g of powdered sugar.
- 5 g of baking powder.
- 320 g flour.
- 1 g of salt.
- 120 g of jam.
Sift the flour and make a depression in the center of the resulting slide. Pour baking powder, sugar and soda. Pour kefir and mix everything slowly. Cut the oil at room temperature in small and put into pieces into the total mass, then beat everything with a mixer at medium speed for 4 minutes. Separate the yolks from the proteins. The first ones are immediately interfered with in the dough, the second ones are whipped with a pinch of salt until a stable foam is formed. Continuing to whisk, add the powder in small portions. Gently (one tablespoon), we introduce the resulting protein mass into the dough. Trying not to spoil the volume, mix everything with careful movements from the bottom up. We lay out the finished dough according to the molds, in the center of each add a teaspoon of jam. Cupcakes are baked in small tins at 175 ° for about 20 minutes.
With cottage cheese
It turns out very delicious curd dough for muffins. The photo shows the final result. It cannot be said that such a dough is quite heavy, so the baking is dense inside. For him, take:
- 0.2 kg of cottage cheese.
- 0.2 kg of sugar.
- 3 eggs.
- 125 g of oil.
- 240 g of flour.
- 5 g of baking powder.
Leave the butter at room temperature for several hours to make it soft. Beat eggs with sugar in a bowl, then add the cottage cheese, baking powder and softened butter. Introduce flour, sifting through a fine sieve. The resulting dough should not drain from a spoon. If it is too liquid, add a little more flour. The resulting mass must be filled in about a third of the molds; otherwise, when baking, it will flow over the edges. The cooking temperature is 180 °. The total cooking time is 20 minutes.
With citrus
In general, the dough for muffins can taste any fruit. Therefore, the lemon in it can be completely replaced with orange or lime. For the recipe, you need to prepare the following products:
- A couple of glasses of flour.
- 1 g of salt.
- 10 g of baking powder.
- 4 eggs at room temperature.
- A glass with a hill of sugar.
- A couple of lemons.
- A pack of oil.
- 2.5 tbsp. spoons of sour cream.
- 1 g of vanillin.
Break eggs into a bowl, pour 6 tablespoons of juice, add citrus zest, sugar and beat with a whisk. With constant stirring, we introduce sour cream in portions. Then pour salt, baking powder, vanillin and softened butter. Stir the dough very carefully. When the mass becomes homogeneous, we lay it out in tins. Such cakes are baked for 20 minutes at 180 °, then the temperature must be reduced to 165 ° and cakes can be cooked for another 15-20 minutes. Pastries prepared according to this recipe have a fairly rich lemon flavor. To make it even brighter, you can soak the prepared muffins with syrup made from citrus juice and sugar.
Almond dough
Ingredients that you will need:
- 6 eggs.
- 55 g of sugar.
- 1.5 packs of oil.
- Incomplete glass of chopped almonds.
- 10 g of orange peel.
- 320 g flour.
Eggs for such a dough should always be cold, so they should be taken out of the refrigerator immediately before cooking. Beat the eggs with the indicated portion of sugar using a mixer. After the mixture doubles, add softened butter and sifted flour to it. Put the chopped zest in the dough and mix again. Finished dough can be distributed by shape. Almond muffins are prepared at 180 ° for 20-25 minutes.
With apples and nuts
This is a very easy recipe for cupcake muffins that can be cooked in minutes. For him, you need to take:
- One and a half cups of flour.
- 40 g of cocoa.
- 6 g of soda.
- 12 g of baking powder.
- Egg.
- A little over half a glass of sugar.
- ¾ packs of oil.
- A full glass of milk.
- A quarter of a bar of dark chocolate.
- Large apple.
- 1.5 cups of nuts.
We clean the apples from the skin, remove all the seeds and seed boxes, finely chop the flesh. Sprinkle it with lemon juice. Grind nuts and chocolate into crumbs. Sift the cocoa with flour into a bowl, add soda, baking powder, sugar and a pinch of salt. Heat the butter in a water bath, pour in milk, egg and mix. We combine the two mixtures in one container and mix thoroughly. Before sending the dough into the oven, mix the chopped apples and nuts with chocolate. Apple muffins are baked for 20 minutes at 180 °.
With cocoa
Cocoa muffin dough is made from the following products:
- ¾ packs of oil.
- 3 eggs.
- 190 g of sugar.
- 2/3 cup flour.
- 6 g of baking powder.
Beat sugar and eggs in a bowl until a light mass is formed. Melt the butter in a microwave, pour into a bowl to the sugar-egg mixture and mix again. Sift flour and baking powder through a fine sieve, add to other ingredients. To enhance the taste in this dough, you can put chocolate chips (about 100 g). Cupcakes should be prepared at 180 ° for 20 minutes.
"Capital Cupcake"
For this baking, the dough is usually laid out in a large shape. For him, take:
- 88 g of oil.
- 88 g of sugar.
- 2 small eggs.
- 115 g of flour.
- 4 g of baking powder.
- 120 g of raisins.
- A pinch of salt.
We leave the oil at room temperature for several hours, so that it softens. Beat it together with sugar until a fluffy light mass is obtained. Add salt and mix. Sift the dry ingredients through a sieve so that the dough is subsequently as airy as possible, combine them with an egg-oil mixture. Rinse thoroughly and soak in warm water for a quarter of an hour, then discard it in a colander, put it on a towel to remove excess moisture, and roll in a small portion of flour. Add raisins to the dough, mix everything and put into a heat-resistant form covered with parchment. Bake "Capital cake" at 180 ° for half an hour. Do not forget to make a longitudinal incision in it after about 15 minutes.
Plain yogurt dough
For him, take:
- A glass with a slide of flour.
- A glass of sugar.
- ¾ glasses of yogurt (you can take any with berry or fruit additives).
- Egg.
- 65 g of oil.
- 5 g of baking powder.
- 2 g of salt.
- Half a glass of berries.
Combine flour with baking powder and sift through a sieve. Add a pinch of salt. Pour yogurt into a separate container. Whip the butter softened and cut into small pieces at medium speed of the mixer to a white lush mass. Continuing to beat, we introduce sugar in small portions. As a result, the mixture should increase in volume by about two times. We drive in the egg, reduce the power and continue to beat. Add half a mixture of flour with baking powder, pour half a portion of yogurt and stir for about another minute. Pour the remaining portion of dry ingredients and pour the whole yogurt. After the mass becomes homogeneous, add the berries. Carefully intervene in the dough.
If you have a delicate berry, for example, raspberries, then it is advisable to add it to the molds, gently pushing it into the middle. This dough is baked at a temperature of about 200 ° for 30-40 minutes. It is better to cover the cookie cutters with parchment so that the cupcakes do not burn on top.
As you can see, the published recipes with a photo test for muffins are quite diverse, but in any case it is not difficult to prepare such a basis. Do not be afraid to experiment in the kitchen and change the proposed options. In the recipes you can add pieces of chocolate, any dried fruits and natural dyes.