Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Kid friendly Muffins

ORANGE JUICE MUFFINS

1 egg
½ cup buttermilk
1/3 cup frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1/3 cup margarine, melted
1 2/3 cups flour
½ cup sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. salt

Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Combine the egg, buttermilk, orange juice concentrate and melted margarine in a separate bowl. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Stir until batter is moistened but still lumpy.

Lightly spray 12 muffin cups with vegetable oil spray. Fill the muffin cups ¾ full with batter. Bake in a 400° oven for 20 minutes or until muffins are golden brown. Yields 12 muffins

Notes: Can use veggie oil instead of melted margarine. Can also make into bread loaves just adjust baking time.



CHOCOLATE CHIP MINI MUFFINS

½ cup sugar
¼ cup shortening
1 egg
½ cup milk
½ tsp. vanilla
1 cup flour
½ tsp. soda
½ tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. salt
2/3 cup mini chocolate chips


Cream sugar and shortening till fluffy. Add egg, milk, and vanilla; mix well. Combine dry ingredients gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Fold in chocolate chips. Spoon about 1 tbsp. batter into mini muffin tin. Bake @ 375° for 10-13 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yummy!! The OJ muffins sound so good!!

Anonymous said...

Wow! I have to agree with Carrie.. those orange juice ones sound delish!! I'm definitely going to give them a try!