Quick breads and muffins are great recipes to start your
children out with if they show an interest in baking. Nothing beats homemade
muffins and they are so easy to make! You can whip up a batch and be eating them
in less than 45 minutes.
If you want to make the perfect muffin, start
with fresh baking powder and baking soda and do not overmix the
batter. Stir just until the dry ingredients are moistened. The
batter should still be lumpy. The lumps will dissolve during baking.
Careful, brief stirring will produce a muffin with a high, rounded
crown. Overmixed batter will produce a flat-topped muffin.
Here are some more muffin-making tips:
Use level measures. Scrape off excess flour, sugar, baking powder
and baking soda with the flat blade of a knife.
Bake muffins on the middle oven shelf to prevent the bottom or top
from over-browning.
Preheating the oven tin before ladling in the batter is said to
produce higher muffins.
For ease, grease muffin tins with a vegetable oil spray or use paper
liners
