Wednesday 21/04/2010 -
Hi ! This is my second muffin adventure. This time I wanted to make some fruit muffins. The choice was apple muffins with oranges and orange juice. Let play with a bit acid taste. You can see the ingredients that I used on the first photo: flour, sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, orange, orange juice, apple, orange peel, vanilla extract, baking powder and soda. This time I took white flour, thinking that whole wheat flour would give muffins perhaps some other taste. I wanted to taste just oranges. Here is the muffins recipe: First, I prepared orange rind, peel the orange and mash it together with one apple, making puree. Then, I beat slightly two eggs, mixing them with fruit puree, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup of orange juice and 1/4 cup of vegetable oil. In another larger bowl I combined dry ingredients: 2 and 1/2 cups of white flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1 teaspoon of baking soda. Next step was combining all ingredients, stirring until moistened. There was enough muffin batter to fill 9 medium muffin cups. I had to bake them a bit more than 30 minutes (I use gas oven - perhaps temperature was just moderate). Muffins grew well, the shape was OK. When still warm, the taste was a bit bitter, because there were still some warm parts of oranges inside. I did not put a lot of sugar, as I did not want them too sweet. Once cooled, muffins lost bitterness, but turned out to be a bit juicy or perhaps even jelly. It seems that I had to put more baking powder or less liquid - no idea. Nevertheless, muffins disappeared in a couple of hours.
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