I have never been that interested in baking, but lately I have started baking muffins like they are going out of style. I have also started pinning a lot of muffin recipes on
Pinterest. B and C both have to take a snack and a lunch to school every day, and we were tired of sending them with pre-packaged crap. So I started baking muffins, first from box mixes, then gradually more and more from scratch. The advantage to muffins over quickbreads and the like is that muffins are easy to grab-and-go, so they are perfect when you don't have time for breakfast or to put in a kid's snack. The downside is that they can be a teensy bit packed with oil, sugar, butter, and other things that make them delicious but perhaps not so good for you. Sometimes I try to modify to increase the nutrition and decrease the calorie count, but sometimes I say f- it and just make a tasty muffin.
Here are my favorite three muffins that I've made recently...
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Apple muffins. I wanted to make something fall-ish, and these were the first fall muffin recipe I found. I made some adjustments, like using crushed-up granola to top the muffins and pureeing the apple peels and adding to the recipe to up the nutritional value. The commenters to the recipe complained that the muffins didn't peak, but I didn't have this problem -- maybe because I was careful not to overmix, and/or because I melted the butter before I added it. (The full list of modifications I made is in the comments on Pinterest, for my reference in case I want to make them again.) In case you're curious, I used Gala apples. Because they were the cheapest.
