Tuesday 7 January 2014

Well , Sort Of ... - ish .....

It started off so well , too . All the ingredients lined. up , wholemeal and white , raising agents , buttermilk  , even the paper muffin cases . Wholewheat Apple Muffins , a  Smitten Kitchen recipe , so I couldn't go wrong . Only it was me making it .
 So ....  . Having measured most of the dry ingredients ( a tablespoon of cinnamon ?  I love cinnamon but ... how about a teaspoon of mixed spice instead )  into one bowl and some of the liquid ones into another , I peeled the two large Elstar apples and blenched at their hideously speckled , soggy interiors . Now what ? It was pouring outside , not the weather to pedal off for more .  Frantic re-reading of  muffin recipes . All I had was a couple of rather ripe bananas so I mashed  and added them  . Now the mix would be too mushy  if I added  all the liquid . O.K., only half the oil , then .
 Now it looks boring without chunks of apple . So folded in a handful of chopped up dried apricots ... and some chia seeds, why not ?  .
 Fill one muffin case ... Rats !! I'd forgotten the brown sugar  Oh , for Heaven's sake . Filled the rest of the cases anyway and shoved the lot in the oven .


I told you a Smitten Kitchen's recipe was fool-proof . They were astonishingly nice ... not to mention low in fat and sugar . I'm just going to eat another . Might make it look less gloomy outside

6 comments:

English Rider said...

They sound wonderfully tasty and look pretty too. Good improv. skills:)

Friko said...

Well adapted!
Most of my recipe cooking is like that. Somehow or other I never go out to buy the proper ingredients.

Now then, do I have any muffin cases?

Marcheline said...

You cook the same way I do. Make do with what you have, and bend the rules to fit your mood. Well done you! Lovely photo, too.

rachel said...

Looks nice too, especially on that very pretty little saucer!

colleen said...

That's what I call creative baking. WEll done.

Liz Hinds said...

Wonderful improvisation!