Muffins are round portioned dough products resembling muffins. Most often they are sweet, with the addition of berries and fruits. There are many varieties of this baking. For example, chocolate chip muffins, orange, banana, cottage cheese, cheese, chocolate, pumpkin, with bacon and cheese, with blueberries and so on.
Unlike Cupcakes
Today, both products relate to baking tea, but muffins have a more complex formulation, muffins are lighter and less high-calorie.
The first appeared earlier and was a dessert for rich people. The latter were soft bread from simple dough and were the food of the poor, they were prepared from the remnants of the products in haste, then they were not sweet.
Chocolate Chip Muffins : Kefir Recipe
What do you need:
- a glass of kefir;
- 180 g of chocolate (better than dark, but you can milk);
- 2 eggs;
- half packs oils;
- 200 g of sugar sand;
- 400 g of wheat flour;
- third of a teaspoon of soda;
- teaspoon of baking powder;
- salt.
Order of preparation:
- Mix butter with sugar, break eggs and mix again.
- Place 100 grams of chocolate in a water bath and melt.
- Combine chocolate with a mass of eggs, sugar and butter.
- Pour sifted flour into this mass, pre-mixed with baking powder, soda, salt.
- Add kefir and mix well.
- Turn the remaining chocolate into coarse crumbs using a grater or knife.
- Pour chocolate chips into the dough.
- Arrange the dough on muffin tins. Do not put on top, as the dough rises.
- Put in the oven and oven for 20 minutes. at 180 degrees.
Chocolate chip muffins should be served chilled with tea.
With icing
For the test:
- 120 ml of milk;
- 200 g of flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 150 g of sugar sand;
- teaspoon of baking powder;
- 10 drops of vanilla flavor;
- finished chocolate drops;
- a pinch of salt.
Glaze Ingredients:
- 3 table. tablespoons of orange juice;
- 150 g of powdered sugar.
For impregnation:
- half a glass of sugar;
- one orange.
Order of preparation:
- Whisk butter with sugar in a deep bowl with a whisk.
- Add eggs, beat again.
- Put vanilla flavor and salt, beat.
- Sift flour, pour baking powder into it.
- Gradually combine the flour with the prepared mixture.
- Pour in milk and mix well.
- Pour chocolate drops, mix.
- Put paper in metal molds, grease them with butter.
- Put the dough in the molds, filling them in 2/3.
- Bake for about 25 minutes at 180 degrees.
While baking muffins, you need to do soak and glaze.
Impregnation:
- Finely grate the orange zest, squeeze the juice from the orange and leave part of it to prepare the glaze.
- Mix the zest and juice, boil, add sugar, keep on fire until completely dissolved when stirring.
- Cool the mixture and pass through a sieve.
To prepare the icing, you need to gradually combine the freshly squeezed juice with icing sugar until you get a liquid icing.
Muffin readiness is checked with a wooden stick.
When they are ready, make holes in them and, using a toothpick, inject orange juice into the syringe. Top chocolate coated muffins with icing. Leave them in a cool place for 30 minutes.
If desired, sugar sprinkle can be applied on top.
With lemon
Another recipe with chocolate chip muffins - with lemon, which gives the baking a noble aroma.
What you need to take:
- 1¼ cup flour;
- 100 g oils;
- half a glass of sugar;
- one lemon;
- two eggs;
- 100 g of chocolate drops (they can be replaced with large chocolate chips obtained using a blender);
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
- teaspoon of soda;
- salt.
Order of preparation:
- Grate lemon zest (only yellow layer);
- Squeeze juice from lemon and mix with zest.
- Melt the butter.
- Mix eggs with sugar. Quickly pour pre-melted butter, lemon juice with zest and mix quickly until smooth.
- Sift flour into a separate container, pour soda, baking powder, salt into it, then pour drops or chocolate chips.
- Insert paper forms into muffin molds.
- Quickly combine the liquid part with the dry and mix quickly to maintain airiness.
- Put the dough in molds and put in a preheated oven. Bake for about 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees.
Remove the prepared muffins with chocolate chips and lemon from the molds five minutes after baking. Serve chilled to the table.
Tips
The recipes for making chocolate chip muffins are quite simple, but there are a few nuances that you need to know and remember.
- The muffin is about 7 cm in diameter.
- Be sure to add a baking powder: thanks to it, the dough rises. Instead of baking powder, you can use homemade baking powder, which is prepared from citric acid and soda powder (do not extinguish soda with vinegar in any case).
- According to the rules, the dough is prepared as follows: separately combine all dry ingredients, separately liquid, then mix with a spoon or in a mixer with a nozzle for the dough, but do not beat. Thanks to this, it will be possible to retain carbon dioxide, which forms many bubbles, which are evenly distributed in the dough and make it airy.
- When frozen berries are added to the dough, you do not need to defrost them.
- Muffins are baked in corrugated paper forms, which are not lubricated and do not separate from the finished products after baking. They also bake and store, and served on the table.
- In order for chocolate muffins to have a more saturated color, not melted chocolate should be put in the dough, but melted chocolate.
- For muffins with chocolate chips, ready-made chocolate drops or chips, or chips, which can be prepared independently from a bar of dark chocolate, are used. Purchased drops are thermostable and do not lose shape when baked.
- You should not do many products at once, because they quickly become stale. It is better to bake them on the day of use.
Conclusion
Baking muffins with chocolate chips is not so difficult, most importantly, do not violate the technology of preparation. They are diverse, and each time you can come up with products with different fillings and decorations.