Autumn is about to come - the time for harvesting and creating culinary masterpieces. From vegetables, you can create not only blanks for the winter, but also delicious dishes for every day. For example, sweet and tender pumpkin muffins.
Mouth-watering pumpkin muffins are a healthy and tasty dish. Delicate sweet pastries are served for breakfast, guests are treated to a family celebration. Cupcakes are prepared quickly - it takes no more than half an hour for experienced housewives to create an appetizing delicacy.
Useful tips for making pumpkin muffins
To make the baked goods soft and tender, there are a few little tricks to take note of. Confectioners recommend:
- Choose sweet varieties of vegetables. Breeders have bred several dozen varieties of pumpkin, but varieties with a sweet and juicy pulp are more suitable for muffins. The most popular varieties of this type are "Volzhskaya gray", "Gribovskaya winter" and "Almond".
- Add pumpkin puree to the dough. Even a finely chopped vegetable can make baked goods tough. To make the muffins soft and tender, add boiled and mashed pumpkin to the dough.
- Use spices. When heat treated, pumpkin loses some of its taste and aroma. To make delicious and mouth-watering muffins, add spices to the dough. Turmeric will give baked goods a rich orange-yellow hue, while cinnamon and vanilla will add a pleasant aroma.
- Bake muffins in silicone molds. The dish can be prepared both in large tins for classic muffins, and in small tins for muffins.
- Experiment with fillings. Walnuts, raisins or chocolate chips will all add to the flavor of your baked goods.
The finished dessert can be sprinkled with powdered sugar, and a pleasant sourness, which will set off the sweetness of the baked goods, will add dry orange or lemon zest.
Pumpkin muffin recipe
All the ingredients for the flavorful pumpkin cake can be found at your local supermarket. It is better to buy pumpkin in the green market. Part of the vegetable left over after baking can be used in other dishes - casseroles, cereals, pies, mashed soups, stews.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 350 g;
- wheat flour - 250 g;
- eggs - 1 pc.;
- sugar - 200 g;
- milk - 50 g;
- sunflower oil - 80 g;
- baking powder - 6 g;
- salt - a pinch;
- cinnamon - ½ tsp.
The pumpkin needs to be baked in foil - 20 minutes at 180-190 degrees will be enough. A soft vegetable is grated or chopped in a blender until puree.
When there are no pieces left in the mass, pour in milk, vegetable oil and break the egg. All ingredients are whipped again at maximum speed.
In a separate bowl, mix the sifted flour with baking powder, sugar, salt and ground cinnamon.
Combine the pumpkin mass with the flour base in a deep bowl and knead the dough.
The dough is poured into molds and sent to the oven. The muffins will bake for the first 20 minutes at 230 degrees and then another 10 minutes at 180 degrees.
Amazing autumn baked goods are ready. Serve fragrant cupcakes with a cup of herbal tea and recharge your batteries even on a gloomy autumn day.
Bon Appetit!
