Muffin Mania

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400°f coat a 12-cup muffin pan with cooking spray, or line with paper liners.
• 2 in a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. in a large bowl, beat eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla for 1 minute on medium. add the flour mixture and beat just until no streaks of flour remain -- do not overmix!
• 3 spoon batter into muffin cups. bake for 18-20 minutes or until tops of muffins spring back when pressed lightly. transfer muffins to a rack to cool slightly.
• 4 cinnamon sugar muffins: sprinkle muffin tops with a mixture of 3 tbsp sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon before baking.
• 5 blueberry streusel muffins: stir 1 c blueberries into batter. before baking top muffins with streusel: combine 1/4 c flour, 1/4 c brown sugar, and 2 tbsp cold cubed butter.
• 6 oatmeal raisin muffins: stir 1 c raisins into batter and sprinkle muffin tops with rolled oats.
• 7 raspberry almond muffins: fill muffin cups a third of the way with batter, then spoon 1 tsp seedless raspberry jam onto each. top with more batter and sprinkle with slivered almonds before baking.
• 8 banana chocolate chip muffins: stir 1 mashed banana and 1/2 c chocolate chips into batter, then bake.
• 9 lemon poppyseed muffins: substitute 1 tsp lemon extract for the vanilla and add 2 tbsp poppy seeds to the batter, then bake.
• 10 apple pie muffins: mix in 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 nutmeg, and 1/2 to 1 c chopped apple into the batter, then bake.
• 11 pineapple coconut muffins: stir 1/2 c shredded coconut and 1/2 c drained, chopped, canned pineapple into batter. sprinkle each muffin with 1 tsp coconut before baking.