muffins

Oats and walnut muffins

| Rekha Vengalil
 
I have to say, I am not an oats fan (oh yes I like them in my breakfast smoothies); but when I baked my Apples slices with crumbled topping, I quite liked it. And so here’s another oats recipe.
 
These light and fluffy muffins are so easy and quick to whip up.  They are so perfect for your breakfast. Serve freshly baked while still warm and yes don’t forget to butter them.
 

You need –

  • Almond Milk – 1 cup (You can use fresh milk too)
  • Instant cooking oats – 1 cup
  • All-purpose flour – 1 cup
  • Caster Sugar – 1/4 cup
  • baking soda – 1 teaspoon
  • Egg – 1
  • Vegetable oil -1/4 cup 
  • Salt – 1/4 teaspoon
  • Ground cinnamon – 1/2 teaspoon
  • Vanilla extract – 1/2 teaspoon
  • Chopped walnuts – 1/3 cup
 How to –

Preheat oven to 220°c. Grease the muffin tins or line 12 paper muffin liners . Sift the flour, cinnamon, sugar, baking soda and salt in a bowl and set aside.

In a bowl, combine milk and oats. Let it soak for 10 minutes.

In a another bowl, beat together egg, vanilla essence and oil for a minute or till well combined. Add the oat-milk mixture and mix well. 

Stir flour mixture and chopped walnuts into wet ingredients and mix till everything is well combined. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups until cups are 2/3 full.

Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean.

 

Coconut muffins

| Rekha Vengalil

I haven’t enjoyed and got worked up equally for any of my 179 posts as much as I did for this one… If you are following me on Facebook then you know why?! Yes! 75% of this recipe was done my 5 year old. We had a wonderful time together, actually most of the time when I am in the kitchen especially when baking a cake or any of Saana’s favorite, she sticks around watching me cook and sometimes helping me too. I should say she is my perfect help. Though at time I do hit the roof and chase her off the kitchen but I guess it’s all part of the mom-daughter affair. The little one has come up with a new request that she would like to start her own blog. What’s more she has also chosen a name and its “Saana’s Foodolicious pictured “.

As always, the Mom came up with this new idea of getting the little one to narrate on how she did the muffins.. Unsure on how this was going to turn out and was just a try but I should tell you it was such fun. She had already forgotten some off the ingredients/steps and needed a little reminders on n off but otherwise it was pure joy.. I was not just recording her words but creating some wonderful memories for us.


Here’s how my little princess made the muffins(in her words) –

“In the white bowl put the.. (“I don’t remember what did I put? Can you help me! “. And I did..) ok flour, sugar, cated coconut (read as desiccated coconut), butter, eggs, milk and vanilla.. But Gugu (that’s what she calls me) Vanilla is for ice-creams. Why are you using it in the muffin?” .

Me – “that’s to give a nice flavor to the muffins..” and we had a little long conversation as the inquisitive child is never convinced with a one liner! 🙂 

Back to the recipe, “well you take a egg beater and mix.. mix… mix…( She really wanted to stress on the mixing she did as her little hand started to ache and I had to take over). Take a spoon and put little muffin mix into the blue paper cups. Gugu put the muffins into the oven for some time and the muffins are ready”

And here’s how she signed off – “This is Saana from Saana’s Foodolicious pictured”

Well hope you enjoyed and below is the recipe on a serious note. Smile 

You need –

  • All purpose flour – 175 grams
  • Caster sugar – 140 grams
  • Desiccated coconut – 40 grams
  • Unsalted butter – 140 grams, softened
  • Eggs – 2 large
  • Milk – 4 tablespoons
  • Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
  • Vanilla extract – ½ teaspoon

How to –

Pre-heat the oven to 180 C. Line a muffin tin with paper cases.

In mixing bowl, mix in all the ingredients and beat well till combined, light and fluffy.
Fill the paper cases equally with the mixture and bake for 25-30 minutes till golden on top or when a skewer is inserted come out clean.

Turn into a wire rack to cool.