four to go.

wow. just two weeks away from when i had hoped to have finished everything on my list. i certainly wont be accomplishing everything i had hoped too, but i am almost there with the 50 muffins! just four more recipes to go …

41. Cheese and tomato layer

42. Cheese and Chives

43. Ginger Pineapple

44. Coconut Pineapple

45. Lemon Coconut

46. Spiced Lemon

the most recent recipe would have to be one of my favourites so far. made even cuter [ i think ] by the little cases i decided to make after watching [ too much ] food network on tv. simple cases, especially if your halfway through a recipe and realize your out of store-bought! i simply cut 5″ squares out of baking paper and pushed them into the muffin tray. it took quite a few goes before i realized that i was never going to get them perfect like the ones you find at a cafe – but imperfect is perfect.

its been that long?

i have been making my way through photos taken in the last month, sorting, editing, uploading … and i am slowly getting there, the august break has helped. this morning as i uploaded photos from last month, of little miss and i baking, i realized i haven’t blogged about the 50 muffins project in a long while! Last time i gave an update, i was up to recipe 25 … now, i am up to recipe 40! so, a quick update on muffins 26 through to 36 … more to come soon …

in the order they appear in the mosaic above, left to right …

26. spicy fruit

27. toffee

28. lemon tea

29. potato fry

30. rocky road (not pictured above)

31. lemon and sultana

32. double chocolate

33. kiwifruit

34. carrot cake

35. orange choc. chip

36. jaffa

muffin-crazy

remember when i thought i wouldn’t be able to bake 50 different muffin recipes and i changed the list a little, to just 20 recipes? well, i still haven’t baked all 50, but this past month or two has seen less internet time and more baking. i even passed the number 20 without realizing – and last week baked recipe 25 - half way!

19 :: Pinenut and Yoghurt – yummy and simple muffin.

20 :: Hot Cross – the cross was made with a lemon icing, but didn’t really look like they were meant to – oh well. they tasted good!

21 :: Fudge-filled, peanut butter – nom, nom! kind of like these, but inside out!

22 :: Banana Lemon – fail. they over-poofed and then collapsed in the middle. *sigh*

23 :: Vanilla and Coconut – mmm. one of my favs. the aroma was so lovely, i wanted to bake more just to fill the house with the gorgeous smell!

24 :: Self Saucing Chocolate – fail. i put these in the oven as we sat down for dinner, the timer went off and they still needed a few more minutes. but. i left them in a bit too long and there wasn’t much of a sauce left when i finally remembered to save them from the oven. i could imagine these would be lovely if baked for the correct amount of time!

25 :: Apple with maple glaze – yum. i doubt these will last longer than a day – another fav of mine!

more muffin goodness.

one savoury, one sweet.

17 :: Best Blueberry muffins

18 :: Cheese and Onion

muffins baked last week … slowly catching up

15 :: Pineapple muffins ~ a little too bland for my liking, but the kids seemed to like them!

16 :: Pizza muffins ~ um, yum! i loved these ones! a lot nicer straight out of the oven, or warmed up rather than cold, but will definitely be making these again. (and i almost forgot to take a photo *gasp!* this was the lucky last muffin)

13 and 14

13 :: Peanut butter muffins with a jam topping

14 :: Cheese ‘Scuffins’

3 more down.

another 3 muffin recipes made, making these recipes 10, 11 and 12. the first ~ Lemon and Cream Cheese. Not to bad, but i wish i hadn’t used spreadable cream cheese – the muffins didn’t have ‘little bits’ of cream cheese throughout them, like i like.

next was Baileys, Cream Cheese and Chocolate. i think i went overboard on the cream cheese with these, by the end of their cooking time they looked like little volcanoes with cream cheese spilling out the top (can anyone tell i am a big fan of cream cheese?!)

and lastly ~ Corn and Bacon, simply because we had an open can of creamed corn and left over bacon that needed to be used up. but, these are so just a scone recipe, in a muffin recipe book, baked in muffin tins. so, the mr and i renamed them Scuffins. they were all gone in one day, so i guess thats a good sign!

two yahs and a nay.

Three different muffin recipes last week. The first – Fruit Salad Muffins. So simple and quick, and I love that the recipe only contains things we always have in the pantry – definitely will be making these again, a big yah!

The second recipe – Cinnamon Sugar Muffins. These were the nay for the week. The recipe looked simple and easy – which it was, but I am pretty sure the muffins weren’t meant to look like this.

I knew once I had finished making the mixture that they weren’t going to turn out the way they were meant to, but, they don’t taste too bad. The texture is more scone-like rather than muffin-like, but eh, as long as they taste good right? They actually remind me of cinnamon pinwheels I made at intermediate (which reminds me – must make pinwheels again soon).

The last  I made – my favourite for the week – Black and White Muffins. Oh my, nom nom. So much chocolate – both white and dark, lots of sugar and lots of butter – good for the lips, not so much for the hips. :-p

So that’s muffin recipes 7, 8 and 9 down, 11 more to go. (I’m still considering putting the recipe count back up to 50, but we shall see how it goes…)