My Favorite Muffins

Orange Cranberry

I have a lot of "go-to" recipes... The tried and true, never fail, never disappoints, always produces delicious results kind of recipes. This is my favorite muffin recipe. It's quick and easy at 5:30 a.m. while preparing breakfast for the kiddos AND its easily changed up to create different kinds of muffins. I like to think of the base recipe for the batter as a blank palette to create with.

Lemon Blueberry

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg
1/4 cup oil
1 cup milk

Directions:

Mix dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
Set aside.
In a small bowl, whisk the egg. Add oil and milk and gently whisk to combine.
Make a well in center of dry ingredients and pour wet ingredients into center. Stir with a fork just until combined. Batter will be thick.
Bake at 350º for 20 minutes.

Variations:

Orange Cranberry White Chocolate muffins - add 1 tsp orange extract to wet ingredients. Add 1/2 cup dried cranberries and 1/2 cup white chocolate chips to batter.

Lemon Blueberry muffins - add 1 tsp lemon extract to wet ingredients. Add 1/2 cup dried or frozen blueberries to batter.

Apple Spice muffins - add 1 Tbs cinnamon and 1 tsp nutmeg to dry ingredients. Add 1 tsp vanilla extract to wet ingredients. Add 1/2 cup diced fresh apple chunks to batter.

Carrot Cake muffins - add 1 tsp vanilla extract to wet ingredients. Add 1/2 finely shredded carrot, 1/4 cup raisins, and 1/2 cup walnuts to batter.