A Muffin Odyssey

Muffins! This was what I frequently made when I first started baking. Relatively simpler to make compared to cakes and cookies since most recipes do not require creaming the butter.
A matter of whisking the wet and dry ingredients together and voila! Yet sometimes, things can still go wrong. Overmixing, and you will get a tough muffin but the question is always the tenderncy to overmix or undermix due to this paranoia. I mean, it is quite hard to judge when to stop mixing the batter. Plenty of trials and errors, I would say. Even now, I would not dare to claim to have master the art of baking muffins yet. There is still plenty of room for improvement. That said, here are some of my muffin experiments with mixed results. Some are pretty good where as others are near disasterous. You figure out which is which.

1) My 1st muffins: Ice-cream Muffins


2) Strawberry Milk Peach Muffins


3) Pumpkin Muffins


4) Pandan Coconut Muffins


5) Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins


6) Chocolate Chip Muffins


7) Chocolate & Orange Muffins


8) Sweet Corn Muffins


Special Note: Most of the recipes above are from this forum. This is also where I learned most of baking tips and skills. Definitely a site rich with baking/cooking resources! http://www.kitchencapers.net/phpbb/index.php

To be continued....