Passionfruit and white chocolate muffins

If you're taking part in Australia's Biggest Morning Tea today, to raise money for cancer research, why not bake these terrific muffins? With or without the icing, they taste great!

Makes

12

Ingredients

• 2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
• 1/2 cup caster sugar
• 100g white chocolate, chopped
• 125g butter, melted, cooled
• 1/3 cup milk
• 2 eggs, lightly whisked
• 1/4 cup passionfruit pulp
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• Passionfruit icing

• 1 1/4 cups pure icing sugar
• 2 teaspoons hot water
• 1 1/2 tablespoons passionfruit pulp

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Lightly grease a 12-hole 1/3-cup capacity muffin pan.
2. Combine flour, sugar and chocolate in a bowl. Make a well in the centre.
3. Whisk butter, milk, egg, passionfruit and vanilla in a jug. Pour into well. Gently fold until just combined. Three-quarter fill muffin holes with mixture. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes. Turn onto a wire rack.
4. Make passionfruit icing: Stir icing sugar, water and passionfruit in a bowl until smooth. Spoon over muffins, allowing to drizzle down sides. Allow to set. Serve.

Source

Super Food Ideas - July 2005 , Page 84

Recipe by Kerrie Sun

Caramel Muffins

Caramel Muffins
makes 18

2 Cups Flour
pinch Salt
1 Tbs. Baking powder
1/2 Cup Brown sugar
1/2 Cup Pecans, chopped
2 Eggs
2/3 Cup Milk
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
1/3 Cup Butter, melted
3 1/2 oz. Semi-sweet baking chocolate, melted
1/2 Cup Vanilla chips

Caramel Glaze:
3 Tbs. butter
3 Tbs. brown sugar
3 Tbs. sugar
3 Tbs. heavy (whipping) cream
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Muffin directions
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Grease muffin pan or line with paper liners.

Sift flour, salt, and baking powder into a bowl. Add brown sugar and pecans.

In another bowl, combine eggs, milk, vanilla, butter, and melted chocolate.

Stir dry mixture into wet mixture. DO NOT OVER MIX. Lightly stir in vanilla chips.

Pour evenly into 14-18 muffin cups.

Bake for about 20 minutes on 400 degrees F.

Glaze directions:
Place butter, sugars and cream in a medium sized saucepan over medium heat.

Bring the mixture to a rolling boil, stirring. Let boil for 1 minute
longer, stirring. Remove from the heat and add the extract. Spoon or
spread the warm glaze over your cooled muffins.

MCDonald's Apple Muffin

Yield: 24 copycat Servings 21 oz Apple pie filling 3 Eggs 2 ts Apple pie spice 18 oz Yellow cake mix Beat all together with electric mixer on medium-speed. Divide batter equally between 24 paper-lined cupcake wells. Bake 350~ 25 to 30 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. Cool before peeling off paper liners. Source: Gloria Pitzer

Banana Crumb Muffins

INGREDIENTS

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 bananas, mashed
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon butter

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease 10 muffin cups, or line with muffin papers.
2. In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
3. In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour and cinnamon. Cut in 1 tablespoon butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Sprinkle topping over muffins.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.

Choco Dorayaki

Ingredients:
2 eggs
65 g sugar
125 cake flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
70 ml milk

Filling:
60 g dark chocolate, finely chopped
30 ml milk
cheddar cheese, grated

How to make:

1. Filling, heat the milk over medium heat. After the milk is warm, add the dark chocolate, stir until melted. Let it cool and thicken in refrigerator.
2. Beat the egg and sugar using electric mixer in medium speed until thick and pale.
3. Add sifted flour and baking powder to the egg mixture, beating until all combined.
4. Pour the milk in 3 or 4 steps, continue beating until all combined.
5. Heat a non-stick pan over medium heat. Pour 1 large tablespoon of batter into pan. Cook over medium heat until underside is cooked, then turn it over and cook other side.
6. Spread one side of dorayaki with chocolate filling and sprinkle with grated cheddar cheese. Top with the other one.

Makes: 7 - 8
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Bahan:
2 telur
65 g gula pasir
125 g tepung terigu protein sedang
1/2 sdt baking powder
50 ml susu cair

Isi:
60 g dark chocolate, potong-potong
30 ml susu cair
keju cheddar, parut

Cara:

1. Isi, panaskan susu cair, masukkan potongan dark cokelat, aduk sampai meleleh. Dinginkan dan biarkan kental dalam lemari es.
2. Kocok telur dan gula pasir sampai kental dan pucat.
3. Masukkan tepung terigu, baking powder sambil diayak. Kocok rata.
4. Masukkan susu cair secara bertahap, kocok rata.
5. Tuang 1 sendok sayur ke dalam wajan anti lengket, biarkan kurang lebih 1 menit sampai bagian bawah matang. Balikan agar sisi yang lain matang pula.
6. Olesi satu sisi dorayaki dengan filling cokelat dan taburi dengan keju parut. Tutup dengan dorayaki yang lain.