Muffin is a baked good famous for its sweet filling from picturesque France, with many flavors and beautiful shapes, beloved by many and used as gifts for friends and family on special occasions. Let’s join Tastetutorial.com into the kitchen and check out these 2 recipes for lemon butter muffins and banana butter muffins!
1. Lemon Butter Muffins
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Preparation
15 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Lemon Butter Muffins For 6 people
Cake flour 120 gr (pancake) Almond flour 30 gr Baking powder 4 gr Butter 1 fruit Eggs 1 fruit Yellow lemon 1 fruit Lemon juice 5 ml Unsweetened fresh milk 70 ml Melted unsalted butter 70 ml Sugar a little Salt a little
Suggestions for buying pancake flour
- Pancake flour comes in many different types, but the common and easy-to-use type for making cakes is the pre-mixed pancake flour.
- You can find pre-mixed pancake flour at supermarkets, specialty baking stores, or buy online through e-commerce websites.
- As of September 2021, the price of pancake flour is about 15,000 – 20,000 VND/200gr package or 100,000 – 120,000 VND/kg depending on the brand and origin.
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How to make Lemon Butter Muffins
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Prepare the ingredients
The butter you bought should be washed, cut in half to remove the seed, and peeled. Cut 1/2 of the butter into thin slices as shown in the picture. For the remaining half, use a grater to shred the butter into thin strips.
Wash the yellow lemon and use a grater to thinly peel the lemon zest.
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Mixing butter and eggs
Crack 1 egg into a bowl along with 50g of sugar and 1/3 teaspoon of salt, then use a whisk to mix well. Next, add 70ml of unsweetened fresh milk and 70ml of melted unsalted butter. Whisk continuously for about 3 minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved, then stop.
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Mixing the cake batter
Next, add 120g of cake flour, 30g of almond flour, and 4g of baking powder that has been sifted into the bowl containing the butter and egg mixture.
Then, using a whisk, mix thoroughly until the flour is combined with the butter and egg mixture. After that, add the grated butter, 1/2 teaspoon of lemon zest, and 5g of lemon juice, and mix well.
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Pouring into molds and baking
After the cake mixture is well mixed, put it into a food-grade plastic bag and arrange the parchment paper cups into the baking mold.
Then cut a small corner of the plastic bag and slowly squeeze the cake batter into each parchment cup in the mold, adding 2 – 3 slices of butter on top of the batter, along with a little grated lemon zest on the surface.
Next, preheat the oven for 5 – 10 minutes, then place the cakes in to bake at 175 degrees Celsius for about 25 – 30 minutes until the cakes are cooked, and then you can enjoy this cake right away!
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Final product
The lemon butter muffins after baking will have a fragrant aroma of lemon zest combined with the soft and fluffy cake body, the rich and creamy texture of the butter, which is both appealing and tasty.
It promises to be a delicious cake that friends and family will love, and you won’t be able to stop eating!
2. Banana Butter Muffins
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Preparation
15 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Banana Butter Muffins Serves 5
Butter 1 fruit Banana 1 fruit Mashed plums 70 gr Flour 136 gr Baking powder 1 teaspoon Baking soda 1/4 teaspoon Oats 136 gr Egg 1 piece Unsweetened fresh milk 60 ml
How to choose fresh, delicious bananas
- You should prioritize buying bunches of bananas that are ripe but have some green and yellow fruits. These bunches are usually naturally ripened, while those ripened with chemicals will have an evenly beautiful yellow color.
- Naturally ripened bananas will have the stem, body, and bunch ripening together. Pressed bananas will have yellow fruit but a hard stem and sometimes still a bit green.
- Good bananas will have a natural fragrance; when bananas ripen, the peel’s scent will cling closely to the fruit, and the aroma will become richer.
- Do not buy bananas that are too soft or still too hard as they will not taste good, and definitely do not buy bruised bananas or those with glossy peels without any scratches.
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How to make Banana Butter Muffins
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Mix the batter
Add 136g of flour, 136g of oats, 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda, and 1 teaspoon of baking powder into a large bowl, then mix well until all the ingredients are combined.
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Mix the banana butter mixture
Peel the bananas and place them on a plate. Wash the butter you bought, cut it in half, remove the pit, peel it, and put it on the plate with the bananas, then mash them together until they are blended. Then add 60ml of unsweetened fresh milk and crack 1 egg into the mixture.
Mix well until the ingredients are combined, then add 70g of pureed plums, mixing everything until the color is uniform.
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Mix the cake batter
After the banana butter mixture is evenly colored, pour it into the bowl of flour that you just mixed. Use a flat whisk to stir the flour from the bottom to the top until the flour is blended into the banana butter mixture and no flour remains at the bottom of the bowl.
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Pouring and baking
First, you wash and dry the baking mold, then use a spoon to scoop the mixed cake batter into each baking mold.
Next, preheat the oven for 5 – 10 minutes, then put the cakes in to bake at 180 degrees C for about 20 minutes until they are cooked, and then you can enjoy this muffin!
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Final product
The banana butter muffin, once completed, will have a very appealing chocolate brown color. When eaten, you will feel the soft and fluffy texture, sweet fragrance, and the rich buttery and banana flavor.
Additionally, pureed plum also brings a very special flavor to this cake! Making the dish more loved and attractive!
How to choose delicious fresh avocados
- The best avocados are those that are just ripe with a slightly yellow stem, the skin gradually turning brownish-purple and bumpy.
- When buying avocados, you should choose those that feel heavy and firm in hand; if they feel soft when squeezed, that means they are ripe and delicious.
- Do not choose avocados with a brown or green stem, as they are either under ripe or overripe, which will not taste good when eaten.
- To buy delicious, nutritious, and inexpensive avocados, you should purchase them around the lunar months of July – August, as this is the avocado season.
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Hope that through the above steps, you can successfully make 2 types of lime avocado muffins and banana avocado muffins that are soft, fluffy, and delicious to treat your friends and family on the weekend!
