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Today is the first day of a new era: no more amateur baking, no more guessing amounts - this time I followed the recipe, for real. And I finally got a good result! I even went out and bought scales: past baking nightmares have taught me that "more or less" doesn't quite work.I got this recipe for Chocolate-Chip Muffins from Vera's blog, they're really easy to make and if you follow the recipe you will get nice soft muffins. If I got them, then you will too because I am far from having the baking finger.
I picked out the best ones for the picture up above...ha ha! But this is what t
he rest of them looked like! Lesson learnt. Do not overfill the muffin cups. I used paper muffin cups because I refuse to use alluminium in my kitchen. The alluminium ones are sturdier, but since we're on our way to a generally healthier life, let's steer well away from using it! The paper ones work fine but, as I just mentioned, be careful not to overfill them, or your muffins will look more like...run-away muffins. Or overly-affectionate muffins, trying to get close to the other muffins and coming together in some bakery version of holy matrimony.
If they do turn out like this, we may then adopt the philosophy of not judging a book by its cover, and that should have you covered.
he rest of them looked like! Lesson learnt. Do not overfill the muffin cups. I used paper muffin cups because I refuse to use alluminium in my kitchen. The alluminium ones are sturdier, but since we're on our way to a generally healthier life, let's steer well away from using it! The paper ones work fine but, as I just mentioned, be careful not to overfill them, or your muffins will look more like...run-away muffins. Or overly-affectionate muffins, trying to get close to the other muffins and coming together in some bakery version of holy matrimony.If they do turn out like this, we may then adopt the philosophy of not judging a book by its cover, and that should have you covered.
Ingredients:
- 300 g flour "00"
- 50 g potato starch
- 1/2 packet of cremor tartar
- 100 g cane sugar
- 300 ml of rice/soya milk
- 5 teaspoons maize oil
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
- 1 tablespoon of apple vinegar (or white wine vinegar)
- chocolate drops (as many as you like!)
Turn on oven to 170 degrees. Sieve the dry ingredients and mix them together: flour, potato starch, cremor tartar, sugar, bicarbonate soda. Pour in the wet ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon, and then add the vinegar and chocolate drops. Fill your muffin cups to 3/4....or a little less. I thought I'd filled mine up 3/4 - I should maybe reconsider my understanding of "three quarters".
Place in oven for 30 minutes, then check with a knife/stick: if they're dry, turn the oven off and let them rest for a few minutes, and then pull them out to cool.
And since you've gone to all this effort, you may as well taste one! Mmmmm....I've already eaten two. Insatiable....I'm going back for more!
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