Popular Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk
- ¼ cup salad oil
- 2 cups all-purpose flour*
- ¼ cup sugar
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
Sweet Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- ½ cup milk
- ¼ cup salad oil
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour*
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
Directions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Grease bottoms of 12 medium muffin cups (2¾ inches in diameter).
- Beat egg; stir in milk and oil.
- Mix in remaining ingredients just until flour is moistened.
- Batter should be lumpy.
- Fill muffin cups ⅔ full.
- Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Immediately remove from pan.
*If using self-rising flour, omit baking powder and salt.
Variations
- Apple Muffins: Stir in 1 cup grated apple with the oil and add ½ teaspoon cinnamon with the flour. Sprinkle with Nut-Crunch Topping: Mix ⅓ cup brown sugar (packed), ⅓ cup broken nuts and ½ teaspoon cinnamon. Bake 25 to 30 minutes.
- Blueberry Muffins: Fold 1 cup fresh blueberries or ¾ cup well-drained frozen blueberries (thawed) into batter.
- Buttermilk Muffins: Follow recipe for Popular Muffins except - substitute buttermilk for the milk, decrease baking powder to 2 teaspoons and add ½ teaspoon soda.
- Cereal Muffins: Follow recipe for Popular Muffins except - decrease flour to 1 cup and milk to ½ cup; fold 2 cups whole wheat flakes cereal into batter.
- Cranberry-Orange Muffins: Fold 1 tablespoon grated orange peel and 1 cup cranberries, cut in half, into batter.
- Surprise Muffins: Fill muffin cups only ½ full; drop 1 teaspoon jelly in center of each and add batter to fill cups ⅔ full.
- Whole Wheat Muffins: Follow recipe for Popular Muffins except - decrease flour to 1 cup and baking powder to 2 teaspoons; add 1 cup whole wheat flour.