Moist Muffins with Optional Ingredients
List of Ingredients
2 cups all pupose flour
2 to 3 teaspoons baking powder ( I use 3 )
1/2 tsp salt or less
4 tbsp. granulated sugar
2 large eggs
3/4 to 1 cup milk
1 tsp. real vanilla flavor ( optional )
1/4 cup oil
Recipe
Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. In another bowl, whisk wet ingredients smooth. With a fork, stir both mixtures together until moisented. Fill paper lined muffin tins 2/3 full. Sprinkle tops with sugar and some grated nutmeg if desired. Bake in a 375º oven 20 minutes or till tested done.
VARIATIONS: The basic recipe above is not really sweet. So feel free to add extra sugar to some of these recipes below for added sweetness.
Banana or pumpkin muffins: add 1/2 cup of puree ( canned pumpkin puree is fine ), may change the sugar
to all brown sugar, and add 1/4 tsp. cinnamon and 1/4 tsp. nutmeg.
Cheese muffins: add 1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese to the dry ingredients.
Oatmeal muffins: replace 1 cup flour with 1 cup quick oatmeal.
Whole wheat muffins: replace 1 cup flour with 1 cup whole wheat flour.
Cherry nut muffins: add 1/4 cup chopped nuts to dry ingredients. Stir cherries into the batter.
Apple or blueberry muffins: add 1/2 tsp cinnamon to dry ingredients and stir in about 1 cup fine chopped apples
or fresh or frozen ( not canned ) blueberries to the batter.
Dried Fruit muffins, add 1/2 cup chopped soft: raisins, currants, pitted dates, or prunes, or apricots.
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