Muffins Without the Mix

Continuing on my baking kick, this week we're going to tackle a simple, customizable muffin recipe. Ingredient shot!

Simple enough, you should have most everything but whatever you want to spice the muffin up with. In this case I had to buy a small bunch of blueberries.

Preheat your oven to 350.

Mix 2 cups of flour, about 1/2 a cup of sugar, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, and 1 teaspoon of salt in a mixing bowl. I added 1 tablespoon of brown sugar for flavoring.

In a separate bowl, or in a 2 cup measuring cup, beat 1 cup of milk, one stick of melted butter, and two large eggs. Now mix the two, gently, but until the lumps are gone.

Throw in the mixins now. Blueberries, lemon zest and poppy seeds, strawberries, chocolate chips. Whatever you like.

Prep a muffin tin with baking cups.

Pour the mix in the cups, and top with a little sugar.

Bake for about 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the muffin comes out dry.

So I ask you, you really used a muffin mix last time? Really?

Ingredients

8 ounces (2 cups) of flour

4 ounces (1/2 cup) of sugar

1 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

8 ounces milk

2 large eggs

1 stick of butter, melted

a couple of handfulls of blueberries

Procedure

1. Preheat the oven to 350

2. Mix all the dry ingredients

3. In a separate bowl, mix all the wet ingredients

4. Mix (2) and (3)

5. Add mixins.

6. Pour mixins into baking cups. 

7. Bake for 30 minutes.