January 7, Mango, Coconut and White Chocolate Muffins

To learn how to cube mangos see this link for a step-by-step guide with pictures.

Ingredients

2 cups of self-raising flour
1/2 cup coconut
1 cup raw sugar
2 Tbsp margarine
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 mango, cubed
1/4 cup white chocolate buttons, melted
2 Tbsp coconut

Method

Preheat oven to 180C.
Mix flour and first lot of coconut in a large bowl, make a well in the centre.
In a separate bowl creme sugar and margarine.
Whisk in eggs then mix in milk and mango.
Pour egg mixture into well in dry ingredients.
Spoon mixture into paper cup lined medium muffin tray.
Mix melted chocolate with remaining coconut.
Using one spoon part muffin mixture in centre, using another spoon pour one teaspoon of chocolate mixture into each muffin.
Bake for 15 minutes.

January 3, Chocolate Suprice Muffins

Warning: these aren't pretty muffins but they do taste pretty good.

Ingredients

2 cups self-raising flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp margarine, melted
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 cup mini marshmellows
1/4 cup milk chocolate buttons, crushed

Method

Preheat oven to 180C.
Mix flour, cocoa and sugar in a large bowl and make a well in the centre.
In a seperate bowl whisk eggs then mix in margarine, milk and vanilla essence.
Pour egg mixture into the well in the dry mixture.
Mix until ingredient are just combined.
Mix in chocolate and marshmallows.
Bake for 15 minutes or until top rises after being lightly pressed with a knife.

December 28, Strawberry Muffin Top Kisses

Ingredients

1 cup plain flour
3/4 cup desicated coconut
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp margarine, melted

1 egg white
1 cup icing sugar
4 Tbsp Strawberry jam

Method

Preheat oven to 180C.
Mix flour, coconut, sugar and baking soda together in a bowl.
In a seperate bowl whisk egg then add milk and margarine.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add egg mixture into well.
Mix ingredients well.
Pour into a medium sized 12 muffin tray (only ~1 and 1/2 Tbsp each).
Bake for 10 minutes or ontil golden in colour.
Let cool.

Filling

Whisk egg white until it forms soft peaks then while still whisking add icing sugar tablespoon by tablesoon and then add jam.

Putting It Together

Once cool cut biscuits in half and spoon on strawberry filling and stick biscuits back together.
Leave in refridgerator to set.

December 10, Movie Muffins

Another lazy post tonight for me to clean up in the weekend.
These muffins get there name because they look like the ice creams you get at the cinema.

Ingredients

2 cups self-raising flour
4 Tbsp cocoa powder
1 cup caster sugar
200g butter/margarine, softened
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tsp red food colouring

3 cups icing sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
2 Tbsp Margarine
Boiling water
Dish of chopped nuts

Method

Preheat oven to 160C. Place 18 muffin casings into muffin trays.
Sift flour and cocoa.
In a separate bowl beat together sugar and butter then add eggs one at a time and stir well after adding each egg.
Gradually add flour mix and stir well.
Mix in vanilla essence and food colouring.
Spoon into muffin casings.
Bake for 20 minutes.

Icing

Mix icing sugar with cocoa powder.
Make hollow in the middle of the mixture.
Place margarine in the centre of the mixture.
Add boiling water till mixture is dissolved but not to 'runny'.
Spread icing onto each muffin then dip into a dish of chopped nuts.

December 6, Parmesan and Herb Muffins

Method

Preheat oven to 175°C. Grease 12-cup muffin tray.
Mix flour, salt and sugar in bowl.
In a separate bowl mix milk, oil, egg, parmesan and herbs.
Fold flour mixture into milk mixture until nearly combined.
Spoon mixture into tray and top with a mixture of salt and parmesan.
For extra flavour sprinkle a little paprika on top too or use rock salt instead of table salt.
Cook for 20 minutes.


P.S. Thanks to Amelia for help with this recipe