How to... Make muffins!

Following these easy instructions will help you to make a basic muffin recipe. Once you have followed this recipe, you can add a variety of ingredients to make all sorts of tasty muffins including choc chip, banana, apple, berry etc.

What you need:

2 cups self-raising flour
½ cup sugar
1 egg (beaten)
¼ cup oil
1 cup milk
Cooking oil spray

Mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Muffin tray
Oven
Timer
Cooling rack

What to do:

1.       Preheat oven to 180°

2.       Place all ingredients into mixing bowl

3.       Mix ingredients until combined

4.       Spray muffin tray with oil

5.       Pour mixture into muffin tray and put into oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown

6.       Allow to cool for15 minutes then enjoy!

To make chocolate chip muffins:
Combine choc chips with all other ingredients when mixing. These could be white chocolate, milk chocolate or dark chocolate.

To make banana choc chip muffins:
Dice 2 bananas and add, along with choc chips into the mixture in the bowl

To make apple-berry muffins:
Dice 2 green apples and a few of your favourite berries - strawberry, blueberry, raspberry - and combine with all other ingredients. If using frozen berries, it is not necessary to defrost them.

To make double choc chip muffins:
To the mixture, add 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder and choc chips

Other flavouring suggestions include
- apple and cinnamon
- chocolate and berry
- orange zest
- blueberry
- coffee

Reference:
http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/Basic-Muffin-Base-L8631.html
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