Vanilla muffins: recipes, ingredients

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Quick baking at home is not necessarily pancakes, pies or puffs made of frozen dough. It can be elegant in appearance and unusual in taste. The secret is in the filling. If you cook muffins at home with different fillings, but according to a standard recipe, you can get a new taste in each new delicacy. Preparation takes no more than half an hour, including dough kneading.

Required Ingredients

Sweet little cupcakes with filling are usually divided into three types: chocolate (cocoa is added to the dough), fruit (fruit essence) and vanilla. The vanilla muffin recipe is quite simple and is based on a butter biscuit, which is baked in small portions in special paper molds of small diameter (no more than 5 cm).

For cooking you need to take:

• 4 eggs;
• 220 grams of granulated sugar;
• 190-200 grams of butter;
• 450 grams of wheat flour;
• 120 ml milk;
• 12 grams baking powder for dough;
• 2 gramsvanilla.

You will also need a sweet filling to your liking. Which one to choose - you decide according to your taste.

Kneading and baking

Dough for vanilla muffins is prepared in this way: first, softened butter must be ground with sugar and vanilla into a fluffy mass, and then beat one egg into it, kneading the mass well each time. Sift the flour and combine with the baking powder, add to the butter and knead the dough, stirring vigorously with a spoon so that there are no lumps. At the very end, pour in the milk. The dough will be quite thick, reminiscent of sour cream from the refrigerator. On a baking sheet, place paper baking cups at a close distance - they will not allow vanilla muffins to spread during the heat treatment process. Half fill the molds with dough, then put in each filling and cover with the rest of the dough. It is worth remembering that when baking, the dough increases by almost half, so the form should be filled by two-thirds. Otherwise, the baked goods will not look very pleasant, although this will not affect the taste in any way.

Place the tray in the oven and bake the cupcakes at a temperature of 190-200 degrees until done. This usually takes no more than twenty minutes. The surface of the muffins may crack slightly. This often happens, so no need to get upset. A little creamy swirl or icing will save the day and turn a simple muffin into a pretty cupcake.

Options for toppings for muffins

Even without filling, these mini cupcakes are very tasty, but todiversify them, you can use the following options:

1. Fruit jam, marmalade or marmalade. Strawberries and raspberries are considered the ideal combination with vanilla flavor, but you can experiment by choosing jam from oranges or plums.
2. Fresh berries or pieces of fruit, you can even mixed. If there is a suspicion that the filling will be sour, then when kneading the dough, you can increase the dose of sugar, thereby compensating for this deficiency.
3. Boiled condensed milk.
4. Thick marmalade.
5. Chocolate. Break the tile into pieces, which are placed in the dough when molding products.
6. A milk-based, butter-free custard used to layer cakes.
7. Inexpensive sweets such as "Taffy", "Cow" or "Chamomile". By cutting each into two parts, you can get a great filling for a vanilla muffin.

Muffins can be combined with different fillings. It all depends on your individual preferences. When the finished products have cooled slightly, their top can be sprinkled with powdered sugar or covered with icing, sprinkles for Easter cakes or left undecorated.

Vanilla muffins are usually not covered with cream - this is the privilege of cupcakes (which, in fact, is the difference between these two desserts).

American muffins

Usually they are baked with chocolate filling, but instead of it you can use the more traditional “Iriska” boiled condensed milk or other filling to your taste. A distinctive feature of this dessert from the basic recipe is thatinstead of butter, lean butter is used here, you can also take coconut oil, which will give baking an unsurpassed flavor. Ingredients for making muffin dough according to the recipe are simple:

• 2 eggs;
• 2\3 st. l. brown sugar;
• 280 ml milk;
• 90 grams of vegetable oil;
• 3 tbsp. l. vanilla sugar;
• 350 grams of wheat flour;
• 2 tsp baking powder;
• 70-80 grams of chocolate for filling.

How to cook?

The technology for making such a vanilla muffin is non-standard: first of all, flour is sifted, and several times in a row. Then all the dry ingredients according to the recipe are mixed in one bowl, and butter, eggs and milk in another. It is important not to beat the liquid components with a mixer or whisk, but simply mix with a fork. Next, pour the liquid mixture into the dry and mix, but not very diligently: you do not need to wait for the sugar to dissolve or achieve perfect uniformity of the dough - as long as there are no dry lumps of unmixed flour. Next, divide the chocolate bar into small pieces and place them in the dough, gently stirring it with a spoon.

Muffin molds do not need to be lubricated, even if they are silicone, not paper. The dough is quite oily and does not stick at all. Such cupcakes are baked in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees until cooked, checking them with a wooden stick or guided by the golden crust of the top of the muffin. The baking time varies between 15 and 20 minutes. Serve already 15 minutes after turning off the oven, lightly dusting the top with powdered sugar or a pinch of cocoa powder.

Vegan advice

If a person does not eat animal products, then this is not a reason to refuse to make a vanilla muffin. You just need to replace a few products from the recipe described above with vegetable ones:

• two eggs - for one banana, mashed with a fork into a puree mass;
• cow's milk - for coconut or soy.

If there are concerns that chocolate is far from vegan, then you can replace it with ordinary dried fruits and get a whole new kind of delicate baking. Otherwise, muffins are prepared in exactly the same way, and they taste just as good, and in some ways even better: they are low in calories.

Muffins of any kind are said to taste much better the next day, so it makes sense to bake more.