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Basic Muffin Recipe (that you can customize)

The most basic, not too sweet, muffin recipe that you can easily customize to whatever flavor you want.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 12 muffins

Ingredients

  • 1 cup All Purpose Flour
  • 1 cup Whole-Wheat Flour
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1/3 cup granulated white sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup vegetable or canola oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • butter/margarine for greasing the muffin tin

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375F.
    Grease a 12 cup muffin tin with the butter/margarine.
  • Sift flour and baking powder into a large bowl. Stir in sugar.
  • In a separate bowl, mix together all wet ingredients: egg, vanilla, oil and milk.
  • Add wet ingredients + extra flavors to dry ingredients and fold gently.
  • Spoon mixture evenly into muffin holes.
  • Bake for 18-20 minutes until a tooth pick comes out clean.

Notes

Extra Flavor Options
Blueberry – add 1 cup of fresh or frozen blueberries
Raspberry & White chocolate – add 1 cup of fresh or frozen raspberries + ½ cup of white chocolate chips
Apple Cinnamon – a 1 cup of fresh chopped fresh apple + ½ tsp of cinnamon
Chocolate Chip – add 1 cup of chocolate chip
Banana – add 1 cup of mashed banana
Banana & Chocolate Chip – add 1 cup of mashed banana + ½ cup chocolate chips
Peach – add 1 cup of diced fresh or canned peaches
Lemon & Poppy Seed – substitute ¼ of the milk for ¼ cup of lemon juice + add 1 tsp of lemon zest and 1 tablespoon of poppy seeds
Spiced Zucchini – add 1 cup grated zucchini (well squeezed of moisture + 1 tsp cinnamon + ½ tsp nutmeg