Muffins

Ingredients (serves 12)

  • 250g Plain Flour
  • 1 Tablsp Baking Powder
  • 100g Caster Sugar
  • 75g Chilled Margarine (coarsely grated or spooned into small pieces)
  • 1 Egg (beaten)
  • 175ml Milk
  • 175g Raspberries, Blueberries or Blackberries

Method

Pre-heat oven to 200C / 400F / Gas Mark 6

  1. Sift flour and baking powder into a large bowl
  2. Stir in sugar and margarine.
  3. Mix egg and milk and stir into dry ingredients until just blended – it should be quite lumpy. Add a small amount of extra milk if necessary.
  4. Fold in fruit.
  5. Spoon mix into 12 paper lined / non-stick muffin tins.
  6. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
  7. Test to see if the muffins are ready by inserting a skewer into the middle. If it comes out clean the muffins are ready. If it comes out sticky, more baking time is required.
  8. Cool on a wire rack.

Variations replace the 175g of berries with;

  • Banana and chocolate chip; fold in 1 large peeled mashed banana and 75g of plain chocolate chips
  • Carrot and nut; add 2 Teasp mixed spice to flour mix and replace fruit with 100g of grated carrot and 50g chopped pecans or walnuts