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[fluene]

Simonne, you see, I did not notice I was using plain flour all along. So, I did not put any baking powder. I realised my mistake only when I was pouring the flour to make my mocha cake last week. As I did not have any baking powder at hand, I just added in soda bicarbonate. It turned out fine.

If we use paper cups to bake muffins/cupcakes, wouldn't the paper cup sort of expanded due to the weight of the batter?

[simonne]

Fluene, Glad you know what's wrong now.
When baking muffin, i usually put my papercup in the muffin tin. So that the muffin would expand within the muffin tin.

I bought new papercups last week from my bakery supplier. This papercup are those skinny and tall papercups. Unlike normal papercups they are round and short...I hate those round and short one.. Makes my muffin short and as if my muffin dun rise!

I Haven't try using them yet.

[fluene]

The papercups for muffins in Coffee Bean are really good. They are very firm. I wonder where can we get those paper cups. Any idea?

[simonne]

fluene : i think i know which type.
I bought something similar from bakery supplier shop near my house (cheras area) selling at 20pcs RM1.90.
The good things is , those papercup does not need greasing... just dump the muffin batter into the papercup and bake.. And they really look nice especially if you wanna bake and send out as a gifts to someone.

[fluene]

Simonne, which bakery supplier are you talking about? I am satying in cheras too.

[simonne]

The one at Bandar Damai Perdana (Bakes Ideas) :P I'm not sure you been to this one or not.
I know there is one at Tmn Segar ans Tmn Pertama. Which is better ah ?
Maybe one day i should pay a visit to the one at Tmn Segar

[simonne]

I bake this yesterday

Walnut and Honey Muffin

Ingredients:

140g self raising flour
1/8 tsp baking soda
salt
140g butter ( i find it a bit oily , will reduce it to 100g next baking)
40g castor sugar
3 tbs honey
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
40g walnuts

Method :

1.Preheat oven to 180 deg C about 15 minutes. Grease muffin tins
2.Sieve self raising flour with baking soda and salt
3.Beat butter until soft. Mix in sigar and beat until creamy.
Add honey and beaten eggs. Mix well
4. Add vanilla essence and sieved flour (setp 2). Mix in walnuts
5.Pour batter into muffin tins
6.Bake for about 18-20 minutes until golden brown and done.
Set aside on the rack to let cool.Serve

(Reference : "Joy of Making Desserts" by Shadow Kwan

Note
The recipe call for 140g butter which i find a bit oily.
The texture of the muffin is soft and nice

[simonne]

Nowadays pumpkin is getting more and more popular. So i try a pumpkin cake just now.
Here is what i bake

Ingredients
200g butter
200g sugar
1/4 tsp salt
5 eggs
80ml evaporated milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
240g self raising flour
250g pumpkin flesh (steamed and mashed)
Almond flakes for spinkle on top

Bake at 160 deg C for 1 hour
(Adapted from Famous Cuisine Mag recipe by Kevin Chai, i modified a bit though)

Notes

1. I bake using 8" round pan and got extra i makes 6 muffin
2. I personally find that the cake is rather oily. I am not sure whether
this is due to the butter or egg. Will reduce the butter and the egg
next time
3. The texture of the cake is very soft and yet you can taste some
pumpkin fibre inside (due to the punpkin puree). Very nice aroma
and natural coluring to the cake.



8" round pan

Got extra i make muffins

[cutiepiggie]

simonne

since you're quite expert on baking. can i ask you, whether you hv tried pandan muffin before? i kinda of bored with the usual flavour like chocolate, blueberry. how about pandan and walnut or almond muffin.?

[simonne]

cutiepiggie i am not an expert lah.. i also got fail baking from time to time.. just didn't post them here :P
I've tried Chiffon Pandan Cake but fail leh. Never try again. MAybe i should try baking one Pandan sounds yummy.I blend the pandan leaves to get the pandan juice.

Walnut Muffin, I have tried "Honey Walnut"

Almond- I have try those with "ground almond" but fail, coz the ground almond soak all the liquid in the batter, causing it very dry...
So i only put almond flakes on top of muffin :)

Blueberry sound nice, but i can;'t find the blueberry sauce leh.. Hmmm Which brand do you normally buy and where to get them ?

How about Orange muffin/ Mango Muffin ?

[dkoh]

hi Simmmone,

You are really into baking. I will start trying your recipe. They sounds very tasty ler!!

[fusionista]

cutiepiggie, on Jun 23 2006, 06:52 PM, said:

simonne

since you're quite expert on baking. can i ask you, whether you hv tried pandan muffin before? i kinda of bored with the usual flavour like chocolate, blueberry. how about pandan and walnut or almond muffin.?

You can try cream cheese filling type or muffins. I'm not sure if you can get them from Starbucks from Malaysia, but in US they came out with these delicious muffins with flavored cream cheese filling. I keep salivating at them everytime i buy coffee!!!

Oh you can try coffee/capucinno or orange/lemon flavored muffin gwa??? During autumn, we make pumpkin muffins here too... Yumm!!!

You can toss fruits like berries and marshmallows in the muffin prior to baking too!

[dkoh]

Dear fusionista,


Have you tired to bake the cream cheese muffin yourself? If you do, give me the recipe please, ii sounds so good, YUMMY YUMMY!! :)

[cutiepiggie]

simonne,

it's hard to get fresh blueberries. sometimes some upscale supermarket sells it once in a bluemoon, the best alternative i can think of it's using blueberry jam to replace but of course the taste is not that good

[fusionista]

dkoh:
Not yet wor... but I can dig out a recipe for you :P

cutiepiggie:
I don't know if you can find apple butter over there, but I hv an excellent recipe for Apple Butter muffin!!

[cutiepiggie]

fusionista

how does an apple butter look like?

[fusionista]

Apple butter is brown like applesauce and sold in jars, but there's no butter in it actually. The name merely implies that the texture is smooth, cuz it's made from boiled, pureed apples. Try Cold Storage they might have some? But you can make them yourself and it uses very simple ingredients. Just google "apple butter" and you can easily find hundreds of website that tells you how to make them....
For me i'm too lazy lar.. I just buy them in jars

[fluene]

Apple butter. I saw in Cold Storage in Sect 14 PJ before

[cutiepiggie]

fusionista

thanks for explaning, i wonder is there any pear butter available?

[fusionista]

Usually you can find pear butter with apple butter in the same place. Good luck!

[simonne]

fusionista
Yes i also want the cheese filling muffin..
Sound yummy leh

[fusionista]

simmone:

All you do is just add a dollop of cream cheese on the muffin batter after you put them in the muffin pan. Push the cream cheese in the batter, but do not hide it under the batter. If you want to do it nicely, you can pipe the creamcheese filling with a piping bag right in the center of the batter prior to baking the muffin. If you want to make the top of the muffin shimmer and shine, sprinkle coarse sugar on top of the batter or sprinkle chopped nuts before baking the muffin if you want something crunchy!

Try various cream cheese flavors, like strawberry, banana, orange or lemon!

[simonne]

Huh ?
so simple just put the cream cheese on top of unbake muffin ? That's all... Hmm.... must try that.
Also i must get blueberry jam hehe..

[fusionista]

Yeah, simmone..

If you put the cream cheese in middle of the unbaked muffin batter (in the pan) prior to baking, the batter will rise around the cream cheese it looks kinda like a "pothole" lah when it cooks... very cute...
This is how it looks like, but this sample pic is carrot muffin, so the batter is heavier and doesn't rise as much as the ones I saw at Starbucks...

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[fusionista]

After baking it, it will look like this..

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[dkoh]

What happened to the cheese? melted into the muffin?

[fusionista]

the cheese not melted, just didnt rise along with the batter mah.. :P

[simonne]

fusionista : the cream cheese, do you need to beat it to make it soft ?
Coz' most of the time, the cream cheese is kind of (hard) .
Also have yu try other muffin with cream cheese toppping beside carrot muffin ? The cream cheese du rise ? Fall pulak ?

OK... let me go and get cream cheese tomorrow and try out. Let you all know okie?

[simonne]

i saw the same photo at http://thedeliciouslife.blogspot.com/2006/...eam-cheese.html

hehe

[fusionista]

yup! that's where I got my pics to illustrate to u my point~!!

I've never made the creamcheese muffin myself, but I made the apple butter muffin.

The site says you gotta beat the cream cheese with egg yolk along with vanilla and sugar, but I usppose it's OK to skip the egg yolk, It'll just eb less stiff I guess. I mean, c'mon, how abd can cream cheese get? Anyway you make it, it'll still be good!