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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Eris on 30 Aug 2010, 22:37
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Ok, here's the deal. You're gonna make some muffins, and I am gonna show you how to do it.
First you need your ingredients! Can't cook nuthin' without ingredients!
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You will need:
- 100g butter
- 1 egg
- 1 cup each of milk, and sugar(I used raw sugar because that is what I had on hand. white sugar would probably be better, but it doesn't matter too much)
- 2 cups plain flour (edited to fix the recipe)
- 3 teaspoons of baking powder
- a pinch of salt
-whatever additions you want to add to it. I have cocoa powder, vanilla essence, peanut butter and strawberries.
Then you should turn your oven on to preheat. You need a hot oven all ready, because the mixing of the mix isn't going to take very long, and muffins need to be made quickly. It needs to be at 180C (360F for those who use that) so set it to that.
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While that is heating up line your muffin tin. My muffin papers have flowers on them because I am a girl.
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Lined your tin? Oven all preheated? Then let's get to the cooking! take the following and dump them in a bowl with a bit of a mix:
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(egg, milk, sugar, melted butter and any liquid additions)
Then add your dry ingredients to the mix:
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(if you have any dry additions, such as spices, or fruit or something, chuck 'em in here too)
Mix until only just combined. Don't over mix it!
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Now comes the fun bit! I put some of the mix in the muffin papers, then added some peanut butter to half, and fresh strawberries to the other.
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After that, I plopped more mix on top to cover all that.
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Then pop them in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
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After they are cooked and a toothpick comes out clean when stuck into said muffins, take them out to cool for a bit.
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(which ones are which? Mystery Muffins!)
After they are not so burny, eat those fuckers good and proper. You deserve it.
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Now, let's see what you guys come up with! You can add fruit, or jam, make them savoury, stew the fruit and mush it up into the wet ingredients, it's all up to you!
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Please note that these didn't turn out as pretty as usual. Last time I made choc peanut butter muffins they looked like this:
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I think I overdid the muffin mix because I was taking photos throughout the process and they came out kinda flat. These ones are really super moist and chocolatey though, which is pretty awesome.
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Fuckin' that's it, I'm buying some motherlovin' chocolate chips on my way home.
Or do you think chopped up mini Picnic bars would do? I have those at home. Chopped up Snickers?
Fuck yeah chopped up Snickers.
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Also: Oh MAAAn do you have those Bakbushka measuring cups because if so I will kill you for them.
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FUCKIN' A, MUFFINS
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I have muffins down to a fucking artform.
3 cups flour
1 cup whole-wheat flour
1 cup oatmeal
5 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups whole milk
3/4 cup unflavoured yogurt
1 cup canola oil
3 eggs
1 zucchini
2 cups dark chocolate chips
1/2 cup walnuts
Pre-heat oven to 360*F.
In a container, add flour, whole-wheat flour, oatmeal, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
In a separate bowl, add brown sugar, whole milk, unflavoured yogurt, canola oil, and eggs.
Add dry mix to wet mix and stir until thoroughly blended.
Grate zucchini on medium thickness, add zucchini and dark chocolate chips and mix well.
Spray muffin tray well with baking release, and add mix in evenly.
Top with crumbled walnuts and chocolate chips.
Bake for 30 minutes.
Take care in removing muffins from tray!
Makes one dozen large muffins.
I'm kind of guessing on the heat and time because I use a convection oven to do 'em in.
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I ate one of the muffins. I ate it with my mouth!
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So I made some MFin' muffins, okay? Geez.
First I set my oven. Just like you said. You see?
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I got out my goddamn ingredients.
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My muffin papers are white because I am experimenting with minimalism.
Anyway I figured maybe like some of this would be all right.
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So yeah, I chopped that shit up.
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Time to melt the stupid butter.
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Get in there.
Our microwave has special code numbering.
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Normally when I am making popcorn or frozen dinners I use the timer on my phone instead. It's easier.
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So melted. Take that.
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Chuck the dry ingredients in a bowl. Forget to take a picture.
Add wet ingredients and stir real quick. Don't want flat muffins. No sir.
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Yeah that's come together okay.
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Add that fuckin' deliciousness.
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Stir in it only just. Then I ladled it out real good.
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Yeah, like this.
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It didn't quite make 12.
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Anyway I figured they wouldn't be awesome enough.
So I brought out some of this American Death Butter.
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Get some of that stuff right in there.
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Cover that nut butter up and stick 'em in the hot box.
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Eat dinner (pasta cooked whilst making muffin batter).
Come back to your muffins 15 minutes later.
Not cooked. Not even.
Come back 5 minutes later.
Not cooked.
Check Google to make sure the little picture symbol you've turned the oven setting to is the right one.
Yup.
Come back 10 minutes later.
Still goopy.
Curse your goddamn oven for being so shit.
Come back 5 minutes later.
Moan at housemates about oven.
Come back 5 minutes later.
Moan some more whilst bitching about how ruined your muffins are fuckin' gonna be. Take them out and glare at the ugliness.
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Unpeel a wrapper and poke at the just-barely-cooked batter inside.
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Scoff the whole thing down while it's still tongue-meltingly hot.
Go back for a delicious second after downing cold apple juice straight from the bottle.
Lay back extremely satisfied.
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I ate it with my mouth
Lay back extremely satisfied.
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I can make some motherfucking muffins, but it has to wait until next week because I have a paper to write and a costume to make and load-in for dragon*con starts tomorrrowwwwwwww
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This sounds ruinously expensive compared to just buying some muffins from a shop. They are probably made by some chinese robot but the robot has good consistency.
Is the butter just melted in a saucepan or something? How do you get it to not be all fizzly and fry-ey? Or is melting butter like melting chocolate and it has to be done special or it's crap?
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I will make some muthafuckin' muffins when I move so I can "break in" my new oven. That oven is gonna bake some muffins and it's gonna like it!
Khar, you can melt the butter in a microwave until it looks almost completely melted and then stir it to melt the rest of the way or melt it in a saucepan over low heat and remove it before it bubbles. The only thing that'll mess it up is melting it boils itself away.
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Also how much is a cup. I've got loads of cups and they're all different sizes and I'm guessing it makes a difference.
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8 fluid ounces, or 236 mL
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use yogurt instead of butter
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No process pics, but my brother and I just made these!
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There is liquidy chocolaty stuff inside. Still haven't tasted them, but in theory, they are awesome.
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Just had one for breakfast. Feel slightly ill, and I'm used to eating chocolate for breakfast, what is wrong with me
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You're getting OLD and RESPONSIBLE.
Old responsible people shouldn't have chocolate for breakfast, they should have All Bran or something instead.
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Also how much is a cup. I've got loads of cups and they're all different sizes and I'm guessing it makes a difference.
It is a metric cup, 250mL. American cup measurements are a bit bigger than british cups. Also, it will cost you what, $3 to buy a muffin from a shop, this will give you about 12 muffins! And you can make them whatever flavours you want and they won't be full of preservatives and other nasties. Also it is fun! You could use yoghurt instead of milk, and put a dollop of lemon butter on the top and it will sink into the middle while cooking and it would be an awesome combination. Or melt some while chocolate and add raspberries to the mix. It is much more interesting to come up with your own flavours and to watch all the ingredients become something completely different.
Also, I have a choc-peanut butter muffin for breakfast today and it was delicious.
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Wait, metric cups are 250 mL? US are only 236. I thought ours were bigger, too. Crazy.
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Australian teaspoon measures are unusually large, too.
So take that, America! And you thought you had the most unhealthy relationship to food! Haha!
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Is Aus. still the per capita fattest nation on Earth or did we get re-overtaken?
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According to the World Health Organisation we're not even in the top 10 of the fattest countries. Apparently it is American Samoa at number 1, with 93.5 per cent (of population that’s overweight).
Actually, that might also be wrong, lookin at at the WHO's map thingy (https://apps.who.int/infobase/Comparisons.aspx) about it. Confusing!
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Also, it will cost you what, $3 to buy a muffin from a shop, this will give you about 12 muffins!
It'd cost about a quid. I am pretty sure we don't have baking powder (not 100% sure what it is actually. Baking soda?), flour, sugar, anything to put in them (strawberries are super 'spensive) cake trays or paper cake skirts so that's a fairly big outlay. Like maybe ten quid? I could have a root around and maybe we'd have some stuff. I don't want to be awkward but srsly.
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I think baking powder is a 50/50 mix of baking soda and cream of tartar. Whatever that is. Or you could just use self-raising flour I spose.
Also like, bananas and apples are cheap, and they are excellent things to put in muffins, my favourite actually.
Khar maybe perhaps you could just buy a muffin then and post a picture of yourself glaring at its sugary puffiness to abate the masses.
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also, no one is forcing you to make 'em, i just wanted to encourage people to do stuff and muffins are super easy to make and alter.
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Baking really is a pleasure activity, I think, like crafting or sewing your own clothes or something. It's not about getting things cheaply; it's about having yummy fresh baked stuff hot from the oven, knowing that you made it yourself. Plus, once you've made the initial investment in the equipment--and if you cook enough that you tend to have things like flour, baking soda, etc. on hand--it's not that bad.
Additionally, I am trying to stop eating so much junk these days and all the delicious-looking chocolate muffins in this thread are making it really hard. I think maybe I'm going to have to make some bran muffins or something tomorrow to appease my newly muffin-hungry spirit.
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MAKING THINGS IN YOUR KITCHEN RULES
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I am going to make a chair in my kitchen.
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Baking powder is the stuff in the Tesco aisle near the brown sugar and the baking soda that is labeled "Baking Powder".
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Uhhg, fuucck, what's the time?
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How much cheap rum have I had?
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Well then, I make that
MUFFINDRUNK O'CLOCK
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I don't have any fancy paper prisons for these muffins, so some good ol' marge and flour will keep 'em cosy as they bake alive in my fucking oven.
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Eggs 'n' sugarrr
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Beat beat beat
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Butter melt melt melt
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Throw it all together with some coco and flour
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MALTEASERS MEET MORTAR
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MALTEASERS MEET PESTLE
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Put goo onto tray, mushed Malteasers onto goo, goo onto mushed Malteasers.
Then everything gets incinerated.
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Waste nearly fifty minutes waiting for incineration to commence.
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They didn't incinerated, but they did get tasty.
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They came out a bit shallow because of the tray but they're still pretty nice to eat, because, y'know, chocolate.
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So yeah, muffindrunk = success.
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(BONUS MUFFIN ME AND DOG PICTURE)
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Here's my oatmeal:
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Does that count?
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oatmeal is not muffins, they are completely different foods
can't you do anything right joe hocking
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The last time I made muffins I bought pre-made muffin stuff..
then I committed a mortal, unforgivable sin, and used a sifter to take the chocolate chips out.
Then I was forgiven because I replaced the chocolate chips with mint chocolate chips.
Then within two minutes of coming out of the oven they were mysteriously gone.
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Way better than oatmeal. Kid you not, they taste exactly like blueberry muffins. But alas, they are not muffins.
I'm making cupcakes tomorrow. They are similar to muffins if you want pictures.
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Switty, why didn't you just leave the chocolate chips in and have double the amount of chocolate?
On a completely related matter our new kitchen is finally almost nearly finished so I can bake things again.
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Twice the chocolate sounds nasty.
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Twice the chocolate sounds tasty.
fyp
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no he had it right the first time
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So does that mean if I made muffins with twice the chocolate, I'd pretty much get them to myself? Awesome.
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They wouldn't appreciate it even if you did.
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Man I think there needs to be, like, twice as much flour in that there muffin mix. I think that explains it lookin' so runny and not rising up like they's supposed to so much.
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Those are basically chocolate muffin inside of blueberry muffin. Pretty cool if you ask me.
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Oh my god James HOW did you do that?
Also I agree about the more flour for sure. The muffins I make from mixes are really sticky and you can pick up lumps of batter, whereas this was really dribbly even after I added a quarter cup more flour... but then it's worked fine for Hannah before?
The quest for the best muffin recipe continues!
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It is just globs of stuff with more gloop poured on top. I think the real trick would be to use a tiny muffin tray to make tiny muffins, top and all, out of a firmer kind of doughy business and then put that dough mini-muffin inside a battery business in a full muffin tray to get it to look relly like a muffin within a muffin.
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Ok, reviewing the recipe means I mistook the amount of flour, and yes it is supposed to be two cups. I think I just saw all the ones in a lone and extrapolated when I shouldn't have. Thank you for mentioning it, though, because otherwise I wouldn't have thought of that. Sorry guys, my bad!
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Muffins are forgiving. Muffins want to be your friends. Unlike cupcakes, fuck those guys.
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Baking powder is the stuff in the Tesco aisle near the brown sugar and the baking soda that is labeled "Baking Powder".
We don't have a Tescos in my town.
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Stephen and I are making raspberry chocolate chip muffins with raspberries from our backyard.
I used the "basic muffins" recipe from the Joy of Cooking.
Wisking the eggs, butter, sugar, milk and extracts. I used vanilla and almond.
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Mixing gently with the flour mixture.
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Goodies layered in
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all full
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They are in the oven now.
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Muffins are done (an mostly gone now).
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So Stephen butters his muffins apparently. I think buttering muffins is a bit excessive, I mean they are full of butter and sugar to start with.
What do you guys think; do muffins get buttered?
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I'd butter your muffin.
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The presence of butter does not preclude the addition of more butter.
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Hot muffins should be buttered. Like toast. Muffins defrosted in a lunch box not so much.
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I'd butter your muffin.
Do you use lines like that on ben?
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I guess muffins have always stood on the donut side of the breakfast menu for me, that is a way to sneak dessert in before noon. Maybe I should try one with butter? I bet it is good, but I think I would feel guilty doing it.
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I like warm muffins with fruit buttered, but I don't butter any with chocolate. I also don't like banana muffins buttered. And pumpkin muffins go better with cream. *drool*
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See, banana and blueberry muffins are the ones that I butter, most others I just eat the way they are. I don't think I've ever had a pumpkin muffin but cream sounds really weird as a muffin condiment.
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Try whipped cream, I reckon.
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I didn't make muffins, I made scones!
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Basically a warm pumpkin muffin with whipped cream tastes like pie. (I forgot to put whipped in front of cream.)
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See when I was little, I always saw muffins as the boring adult version of cupcakes, minus all the sugary deliciousness. The same way that bagels are the boring responsible versions of donuts.
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My mother claims that the first time I saw a donut, I said, "Look, Mom, a chocolate bagel!" (I still prefer bagels over donuts and muffins over cupcakes.)
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Whenever I see this thread I conjure up the Wu's "Bring Da Ruckus" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIPfQ-HtYeM) with the chorus replaced by the thread title.
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aaaaaaaaaaaand now i have the hugest craving for a cashew chicken salad bagel sandwich with pesto at our local bagel place (it is the best). but it's okay, we're going to cajun cafe for lunch and i'mma eat some sweet potato pancakes maybe. last time i had boudin balls and crawfish etouffee nom nom
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Just made some corn muffins.
Slathered in butter.
Aw yeah.
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My mother claims that the first time I saw a donut, I said, "Look, Mom, a chocolate bagel!" (I still prefer bagels over donuts and muffins over cupcakes.)
Man why would you like cupcakes over muffins. There's so much more variety with muffins.
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Easily. I disliked the vast majority of muffin varieties I've tried.
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Bagels are pretty much the king of foods though
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I like to think of bagels as being part of a food pantheon in which there is many members but no hierarchy. All that matters is that everything there is certifiably delicious. For example, if you asked me whether a really good bagel or a really good croissant was better I'd just wonder why the hell you'd ever want to make a choice like that.
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I would probably be asking that question in the context of which one should I eat first?
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Man why would you like cupcakes over muffins. There's so much more variety with muffins.
INCORRECT
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i mean muffins are great and all but if it doesn't end up being a cupcakery that kills me in the end i will truly be surprised
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http://metalcakes.blogspot.com/
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Best Blog
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Frosting ist krieg.
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Man why would you like cupcakes over muffins. There's so much more variety with muffins.
You need more Cupcake Wars in your life.
I enjoy both, but I have more fun making cupcakes. Mostly because of the icing... Icing is fun.
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I hate icing.
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Yeah, icing gives me headaches. It's muffins for me all the way. And, if I had more free time I'd try to bake some Mothafuckin' Muffins, but I do not have free time. All the free time I get (i.e. now) I get by missing sleep.
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Well, all of the icings I've been making start with cream cheese and go from there, because, well, I love cream cheese. (I can understand though, because most icings are far too sweet.) But that's ok, there's cheese muffins and those are my favorite.
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I hate icing.
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I love buttercream and cream cheese frostings because they are delicious and not obnoxiously sweet. One of my favourites leftover from me childhood is Duncan Hines' chocolate storebought stuff, but it is way sweet and also has corn syrup in it, so I don't really eat it anymore.
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whipping cream is also a nice base for a light frosting that isn't too sweet and heavy, unless you load it with sugar or something. sometimes it pipes a little funny but i tend to prefer the light texture of whipped cream and cream cheese frostings over really heavy buttery ones. icing is real fun to experiment with because for the most part there isn't really a real formula, you can just kind of mix things up however you want until you wind up with a taste and texture you like. personally i don't really use a recipe anymore, i just kind of go for it. with ingredients like sugar and butter and whipping cream and cream cheese it's pretty hard to mess up.
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Icing is such a good concept. Let's combine dairy-fat and sugar and put it on things. Perfect. Fairly forgiving and robust.
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I made some frosting yesterday out of butter, cream cheese, peanut butter and icing sugar.
It is THE BEST. It tastes just like slightly sweetened peanut butter but without the annoying stick-to-your-mouth part.
Pictures!
Get ur stuff:
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Make cupcakes. Take a series of out-of-focus pictures because you're so hungry.
Make frosting.
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Oh god so delicious.
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Peel some chocolate to make curls.
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Put it all together.
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Aww yeah.
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I will have to try that. Did Lunchy possibly make American peanut butter better? ???
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I love buttercream and cream cheese frostings because they are delicious and not obnoxiously sweet.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of sweets in general, but a nice spice cake with a measured dose of cream cheese frosting is wonderful.
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JAMES
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/09/cakespy-cupcake-stuffed-cupcakes-recipe.html
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Green & Black's is such good chocolate, Lunchy, seriously.
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They're all good as long as they have edible ball bearings =D Muffin/Cupcake must
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Edible ball bearings are best on gingerbread men. Too much crunch for a cupcake.
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Green & Black's is such good chocolate, Lunchy, seriously.
Is it still as good now that it's been bought by Kraft? Or has Kraft fucked it up like they fuck up everything else they touch?
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Oh man hey thread what is happening we should get together, catch up, make some muffins, you know.
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Jonathan made me cupcakes tonight! Confetti cupcakes. With chocolate frosting. I got to put the sprinkles on.
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the rest of y'all are outta luck
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I can make my own goddamn cupcakes. With sprinkles too!
Basically what I'm saying is I think we should have a cupcake war.
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Everyone wins Cupcake War!
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Exactly. You get to eat cupcakes.
WINNING.
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At my birthday Jimmy ate too many cupcakes and got sick. What do you call that?
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Winning.
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Better.
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I regret nothing.
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I completely agree!!
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MAKING THINGS IN YOUR KITCHEN RULES
Especially makin' loooove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Et_771LF8
I'm due home next weekend so I will definitely escape exam revision by making muffins. This is a pretty rad thread. Needs more lemon & poppyseed, motherfuckers.
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This is now a cooking thread. Jon and I made things in the kitchen!
We made a pork loin with fresh sage and garlic!
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d158/dream_loud/Mississauga-20110402-00050.jpg)
To go with it we had braised endive (in an orange vinaigrette), sauteed red pepper (mostly for colour), and fingerling potatoes roasted with rosemary and thyme.
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d158/dream_loud/Mississauga-20110402-00051.jpg)
For dessert, apple-blackberry pie!
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d158/dream_loud/Mississauga-20110402-00046.jpg)
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We have a cooking thread already, sillyface
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this one was convenient
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dude the cooking thread is like not even that far away, i can see it from here
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This is a baking things in a muffin/cupcake pan thread, not a cooking things in whatever kind of pan you like thread. JEEZE.
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But that does look delicious.
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It's okay, Sir Juggles balanced it out by putting cookies in the Cooking Thread. Gawd, what were you all thinking?
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Cookies Are Not Muffins Either!
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Yeah guys had to remind some people what that thread was for.
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OK so I took the recipe, swapped half a cup of flour for the cup of ground almonds & cocoa powder mixture left over from another project, then creamed butter, sugar, peanut butter, and a little flour together, which got piped in spirals on top of the muffin batter and streaked for the topping effect.
(http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/8797/dscf5343a.jpg)
The peanut streaking filling was a little stiff, so next time I'll reduce or scrap the flour. Taste is spot on.
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You Americans put peanut butter in EVERYTHING.
why doesn't everyone do this?
I'm still waiting for the UK to bring in peanut butter M&Ms, I brought home as much as I could from the M&M World in Times Square but there were never going to be enough...
These all look fantastic.
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hey, canadian, dog
:police: :laugh: :|
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North America is the land of peanut butter. I wouldn't move to a place without peanut butter.
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I put peanut butter in everything as well. However my boyfriend and I disagree on the most important issue: creamy v crunchy. (I am creamy all the way.) I used two huge spoonfuls of PB in some buttercream I made yesterday to top chocolate cupcakes and it was the easiest, smoothest, thickest icing I have ever worked with. So beautiful.
No pictures because I have no internet at home right now.
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honestly creamy and crunchy are both pretty great, everything to do with nuts and nutty butters of all varieties is awesome and to everything a time and a place really
creamy is definitely better for everyday uses though
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that was my complete intention from the start
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(in my defense, this was at the top of the page when i posted, someone posted a while after in the cooking thread which brought it to the top, that is why i said "convenience")
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I love creamy peanut butter. It is absolutely one of my favourite things, although I can't stand peanuts or any other nuts. My theory on this is that you can make a homogenous mixture with the nut butters, but you can't sweeten the actual nut, you can only coat the surface.
Or I could just be a lesbian.
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I'd subscribe to both theories myself.
Naww but its all about crunchy peanut butter. Like pulp in orange juice, you need a bit of extra texture in there to remind you that you're eating something that comes from something else. Texture, solids....its all good. Smooth peanut butter just seems one of those weird things to me. Yeah, brown paste! I like my brown paste with lumps.
Or I could just be a lesbiman.
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Chunky food, ok fine whatever, chunky juice, I'll pass. Smooth > chunky.
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Peanut butter gives me the runs and it suuuuucks. At least it doesn't kill me, I guess.
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When my sister was little she was a very picky eater, so Mom would give her a spoonfull of peanut butter with dinner so she'd have some protein in her diet. That said, I've decided I like chunky peanut butter for sandwiches - it just give you something else so enjoy, along with the glory of a pb&j.
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I can't take peanut butter by itself creamy or crunchy, but then to be fair I don't really like nuts at all unless its pecans. There was a pecan tree down the street from my house as a kid, and the little old lady who lived there would ask for help in picking them and so I got to have all the pecans I could stand, and I only like them because I liked her.
In things peanut butter is awesome, but by itself it just sticks all to the roof of yer mouth n' shit and I hate overly dry foods, I remember when I was 8 my mom packed me a sunflower butter(the stickiest and least pliable of all damn nut butters) sandwich on whole wheat bread and I remember crying at school because I literally couldn't eat it because it was so dry.
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aw, dang, dude, you are not eating the right peanut butter
also what a way to scar your kid, jesus, like i don't even know what sunflower butter is, but ick
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is Jiffy or Peter Pan not the right peanut butter? I dunno, I think the problem is mostly with me, not the peanut butter, but I just can't take it very often yo.
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You have to go for the stuff that is 100% natural peanut butter. Like, you look at the ingredients and the only things in the list are peanuts and probably some salt. No oil, no preservatives, none of that shit.
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Laura Scudders, for the win.
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You have to go for the stuff that is 100% natural peanut butter. Like, you look at the ingredients and the only things in the list are peanuts and probably some salt. No oil, no preservatives, none of that shit.
It's possible to get peanut butter without oil?
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I mean all the organic peanut butter we try and get always has oil in it and it separates constantly so it's really gross.
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That's probably just the natural peanut oils, even if there's not any other kinds added.
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Oh yeah, natural peanut butter has oil from the peanuts themselves. But most big commercial brands will add in other oils and sugars and shit to make it taste "richer" (in that sick artificial way) and help it maintain consistency. If it separates, that's a good sign.
Of course, you can always let it separate at the start and pour the oil off the top when you first open it. My dad does this to eliminate most of the fat content. Also, if you keep it in the fridge after opening and stirring the oil in it usually won't separate again.
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Yeah, one of my friends/ex-studio mate would bring in natural peanut butter to our studio and she'd pour all the oil off. Stuff was so delicious.
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I... actually prefer Jiff. I like molasses in my peanut butter.
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Yeah I'm not gonna lie my mom buys the natural peanut butter too and I tried it once just to see if it would help and no oh my god its still kinda horrific and I think maybe unless I'm just in a strange mood or something I almost never can eat peanut butter.
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There isn't anything wrong with that?
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I've never liked peanut butter either. I can eat it in a sandwich with a LOT of honey, and preferably with some bananas and raisins as well, but I would rather eat just about anything else. Almond butter is my favorite of the nut butters, and it's not something I want more than once a year or so.
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Won't eat peanut butter out of a jar but I am literally addicted to Reeses Cups
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Yeah in candy its different, they add loads of sugar to the peanut butter in Reeses cups, and that plus the chocolate helps it all balance out a lot differently.
Anyone ever heard of Jelly and cheese sandwiches? My dad would make those for himself sometimes where he would just straight up put big hunks of cheddar on a sandwich with jelly and eat it that way. Hmm, I wonder if my dad has gotten his cholesterol checked lately... I mean this is the guy who I once got up to get a drink of water one night and he was standing at the refrigerator, taking a bite out of a stick of butter. (he's in great shape and he's always been the thinnest person in the family but like his average lunch is a can of soda and a bag of m&ms)
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My mum taught my about jam and cheese sandwiches when I was younger. Apricot jam and cheese is my favourite combination, but the cheese has to be fairly thin slices, rather than big hinks of the stuff. It's also nice on toast, when the cheese mlts just a little bit. Everyone I have told bout jam and cheese sandwiches looked at me like I was a fucking nutter.
Also, on the peanut butter (and cooking) front, I made peanut butter pancakes today, and that was the first time I really exerienced the whole sticking to the roof of your mouth feeling and it is really disconcerting! The pancakes were nice enough, and putting butter or maple syrup on them helped, but I needed to ahve a drink to help with the stickiness.
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I LOVE peanut butter, last week I made these chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5146/5601500691_1e818200ee.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackadaisy/5601500691/)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5229/5601500683_8ec073438b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackadaisy/5601500683/)
Today I made peanut butter pancakes from this recipe (http://thishomemadelife.com/peanut-butter-pancakes)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5104/5601500599_6c836f7b59.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackadaisy/5601500599/)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5306/5601500615_422335d2d3.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackadaisy/5601500615/)
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Lunchy's lunchin',