Best Ever Muffins

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Serves: 12
Yield: 12 muffins
Ready in: 35 mins (10 mins Prep - 25 mins Cook)

Start with this foolproof basic recipe, then add one of several different ingredients for a variety of different muffins. Get comfortable with this base recipe, and you can start creating your own variations!

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Ingredients

250g (9 oz) plain flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
150g (5 oz) caster sugar
1 egg
225ml (8 fl oz) semi-skimmed milk
4 tablespoons vegetable oil

Preparation method

Preheat oven to 200 C / Gas mark 6.
Stir together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre. In a small bowl, beat egg with a fork. Stir in milk and oil. Pour all at once into the well in the flour mixture. Mix quickly and lightly with a fork until moistened, but do not beat. The batter will be thick and lumpy. Add any fruits, nuts, chocolate, etc. (see footnote below) at this point and gently fold in to combine.
Pour the batter into a muffin tin that is either greased or lined with paper muffin liners. Bake for 25 minutes, or until golden.

Variations:

Blueberry Muffins: Add 175g (6 oz) fresh blueberries. Sultana Muffins: Add 150g (5 oz) sultanas. Date Muffins: Add 150g (5 oz) finely chopped dates. Cheese Muffins: Fold in 125g (4 oz) grated Cheddar cheese, and reduce sugar by half. Bacon Muffins: Fold in 75g (3 oz) crisp cooked, diced bacon, and reduce sugar to 1 tablespoon.

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Tweak: beemer Altered ingredient amounts:

GREAT!!! I added a small mashed banana to the batter. Fill the muffin cases half full and add some chopped stawberries to some, chopped apples to some and dried blueberries to have a little variety. A great on-the-go breakfast for my partner who is on the road all day.

GREAT!!! I added a small mashed banana to the batter. Fill the muffin cases half full and add some chopped stawberries to some, chopped apples to some and dried blueberries to have a little variety. A great on-the-go breakfast for my partner who is on the road all day.

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Tweak: GINNYG Used different ingredients:

Excellent base recipe for all kinds of muffins. It adapted really well so several substitutions: I used vanilla soya milk in place of milk, and honey in place of sugar. I also added two bananas, cinnamon and sprinkled oats on top. They turned out fabulous! Thanks for the great recipe!

Excellent base recipe for all kinds of muffins. It adapted really well so several substitutions: I used vanilla soya milk in place of milk, and honey in place of sugar. I also added two bananas, cinnamon and sprinkled oats on top. They turned out fabulous! Thanks for the great recipe!

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Review: pixieminx

I bake cakes about once every 18 months. I don't really do cakes, although I love eating them! However...I'm on a quest to find the best and easiest muffin recipe.Cannot be doing with loads of ingredients etc. This is brilliant!!! My only addition was approx 180g of fresh strawberries. My 11year old son tested the first one. He 'shovelled' it into his mouth... not pretty I know,(he wouldn't do this amongst company) but certainly a very high recommendation! I can't tell you how impressed i am! (Made some courgette and raisin muffins last week, recipe from another website.Pleasant, but nothing special. Many more ingredients and a bit chewy...may try that combination with this basic recipe).

I bake cakes about once every 18 months. I don't really do cakes, although I love eating them! However...I'm on a quest to find the best and easiest muffin recipe.Cannot be doing with loads of ingredients etc. This is brilliant!!! My only addition was approx 180g of fresh strawberries. My 11year old son tested the first one. He 'shovelled' it into his mouth... not pretty I know,(he wouldn't do this amongst company) but certainly a very high recommendation! I can't tell you how impressed i am! (Made some courgette and raisin muffins last week, recipe from another website.Pleasant, but nothing special. Many more ingredients and a bit chewy...may try that combination with this basic recipe).

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Posted: 09 Oct 2009 Easy
Review: 1Tom

So easy my youngest was able to follow the recipe and they turned out great.

So easy my youngest was able to follow the recipe and they turned out great.

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Posted: 15 Mar 2009 Easy

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