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Basic Muffin Recipe

This is a wonderful muffin recipe to have. Just start with the basic recipe, then add whatever you like to make it your own - chocolate chips, berries, bananas, apples, etc. This recipe can easily be doubled, halved, tripled, etc.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 24 muffins

Equipment

  • Muffin Tins

Ingredients
  

  • 4 1/2 cups freshly milled flour hard white was used in video, but hard red, spelt, kamut, soft white, Ezekial flour, a mixture, etc can be used
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 cups cultured buttermilk regular milk can be used, but it is lighter with buttermilk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup oil
  • 1 cup honey sugar can be used, just add it with dry ingredients
  • 2 cups diced strawberries or apples, blueberries, bananas, or omit. Berries can be frozen.
  • 1-2 tsp cinnamon add to taste or omit
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract This can be omitted for non-fruit muffins

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375 - 400 degrees
  • Mix all dry ingredients. If using sugar rather than honey, mix it with dry ingredients
  • Add liquid ingredients, mix
  • Add fruit, mix
  • Scoop into greased muffin pans
  • Bake in oven for about 12-14 minutes until just under done.
  • Rest in pan for about 3-4 minutes
  • Place on cooling rack

Notes

This is a basic muffin recipe. Feel free to swap out the wheat flour for corn flour for wonderful corn muffins!
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