Muffins are the most delicate little sweet cupcakes that can be made quickly and easily. Any tea with aromatic homemade muffins will help to cheer you up on any, even the most bad day. Homemade apple muffins are not only tasty, but also very beautiful.
For muffins, you can use both yeast dough (English muffins) and dough with baking powder or soda (American muffins). Typically, these flavorful cupcakes should fit in the palm of an adult. You can add chocolate, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, oranges, nuts, apples, lemon, etc. to muffins.
The history of muffins
There are the following versions of the origin of muffins. According to the first, these muffins were invented in Great Britain in the 11th century. Muffins come from either the French word mouflet, which means soft bread, or the German muffe, which means bread.
Some culinary experts claim that muffins used to be considered workers' food, because they were prepared from the leftover dough.
The ancestors of muffins were not so sweet, they were prepared very quickly and served for breakfast. Since the muffins became stale very quickly, it was only from the middle of the twentieth century. they began to be sold in stores.
Apple muffin recipe
Apple Muffins can be made with the following ingredients:
- 200 g of apples;
- 100 g of butter;
- 150 g wheat flour;
- 100 ml sour cream;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar;
- 1 tsp baking powder for dough;
- 1 tsp cinnamon.
Cut the butter into slices, put in a bowl and mix with sugar and vanilla sugar, then add the chicken eggs and mix well.
Now you can add sour cream to the bowl and stir. Combine flour and baking powder, knead the dough.
Wash the apples, peel, core and cut into small pieces, then add to the muffin dough and stir well. In the next step, add ground cinnamon to the dough.
Grease the muffin baking tins with butter and place the dough in them. Place the muffins in an oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for about 30 minutes. Your apple muffins are ready!
