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'Healthy' muffin recipes (suitable for packed lunches)

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Basic Muffin

9oz/255g plain flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt (optional I don't put it in)

3-4oz/85-110g fine granulated sugar

1 egg

8fl oz/240ml milk

3fl oz/90ml veg oil/butter (I use olive oil)

 

heat oven to 190 C gas mark 5

 

Sift together dry ingredients

 

mix wet ingredients togetehr in a separate bowl

 

Pour wet ingredients into dry and stir until just combined (about 30 secs)

 

Put mix into 12 muffin cases and bak for 20-25mins

 

Optional extra ingredients

85-100g chocolate chips

or

85-140g chopped dried fruit (note you may need a little extra liquid with driedfruit additions)

 

Forgot to say, this muffin recipe and the others I'll add to this topic all freeze well on day of baking. A frozen muffin popped in a lunchbox in the morning is defrosted by lunchtime

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Apple Spice muffins

 

255g/9oz plain flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1.5 teaspoon mixed spice

85-110g/3-4 oz fine white granulated sugar

170g/6oz finely chopped apple

150ml /5fl oz milk

90ml/3fl oz veg oil/melted butter (suggest olive oil)

soft brown or demerea sugar to sprinkle on top

 

Mix together dry ingredients

 

mix together wet ingredients including apple

 

pour wet ingredients into dry and mix until just mixed

 

spoon into 12 muffin cases, sprinkle brown sugar on top

 

bake 20-25mins @ 190 C

 

These are a great way of using up the slightly wizened apples that get left in the bottom of the fruit bowl :lol:

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Banana Muffins

 

280g/10oz plain flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

3 large well ripened bananas

100g/4oz fine white granulated sugar

1 egg

60-90ml/2-3 fl oz milk

90ml/3fl oz veg oil or melted butter (I use olive oil)

85-100g Chocolate chips optional

1 teaspoon vanilla essence optional

 

Banana Oatmeal variation that I usually make (with choc chips)

reduce flour to 225g/8oz add 60g/2 oz rolled oats to the wet mix

 

Mix dry ingredients (except oats if using as they go into wet mix)

 

mix wet ingredients and add oats if doing oatmeal version

 

Mash bananas add to wet ingredients

 

pour wet ingredients into dry and mix until just mixed

 

spoon into 12 muffin cases

 

bake 20-25mins @ 190 C

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Tried a variation of this today and was pretty yummy! Will try again in the week as I didn't get quite enough sweetness in (used Hermasetas granulated instead of sugar). But a lovely muffiny texture - will have to keep making them as I've had to pay out for muffin cases!

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