Raisin Muffins
Apparently the way to get amazing muffins is by not over-mixing. Just combine the ingredients - the mixture should still be a bit lumpy. Sounds mad, but it works.
As well as the ingredients make sure you have muffin paper cake cases before you start, and a metal muffin tray.
Makes 12
Ingredients
280g Plain/cream flour (12oz)
12g Baking powder (1/2 oz)
2g Salt (very small pinch)
140g Castor sugar (6oz)
1 egg
240g milk (10oz)
90g vegetable oil (4 oz)
140g raisins or sultanas (6oz)
Method
1. Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. Stir in the sugar.
2. Whisk the egg.
3. Weigh the milk and oil and mix with the egg.
4. Add to dry ingredients and stir briefly with a wooden spoon.
5. Fold in the raisins.
6. The mixture is almost runny so you'll need to use paper muffin cake cases placed in a metal muffin tray.
7. Bake at 190 degrees for 20-25 minutes until golden brown on top.
8. Cool on a wire rack and enjoy!
Note: I have an old fashioned balance scales with imperial measures, it also works fine for measuring liquids, as this recipe requires.
What a great idea for healthy school snacks. My daughter starts juniors this September and they have to take their own snack in so I might give this a try!
ReplyDeleteThey look great! Surely if you ban all sugar you'd have to ban fruit... Or is the ban a bit more specific than that?
ReplyDeleteFruit sugars and refined, processed sugar are two completely different things. Basically fruit sugars are in a form that the body can easily utilise and use for energy and refined sugars are not and the body then has to expend more energy trying to get rid of it often just storing it away in fat cells as it can't eliminate it completely.
ReplyDeleteLove coming up with raw alternatives to any cake recipe so leave this one with me and when we get finished with our next round of traveling I will concoct something!! Did it recently with my sister in laws mango and lime cakes and the raw version was delicious......
These look lovely - never made raisin muffins before.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Never quite sure where I stand on things like sugar bans in schools. I always think that forbidden makes more tempting and that the kids simply head out to the shop after school to get their fix. Yet I understand the principle as most kids could do with less refined sugar in their diet.
My finger slipped and I posted as anonymous. Oops!
ReplyDeleteThere's a sugar ban in schools?? I'm in denial and hope they don't examine my boy's lunch bag!! Finally got to read AND bookmark this :-) I can attest to their deliciousness having sampled one 'that you made earlier '!
ReplyDeletexx Jazzy
Am loving the different comments here! I may return to some of them when I get around to the food post that I have been planning for ages :)
ReplyDelete@Susanne - maybe she could help make them?
@Julie's Mum - I never checked, when my son took in lunch he wanted the same every day: a ham sandwich and an apple!
@Helen - oh send me pics and I'll put them on my Facebook page, the last ones I saw of yours looked amazing x
@Beadzoid - when my kids were little they drank water and snacked on bananas. Then life and other people and TV ads put an end to that. But I do my best and I think home made food is always better :)
@Jazzygal - he he and thank you! Xx