Two Tone Muffins Recipes

TWO-TONE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease 10 standard muffin cups.
• In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix thoroughly.
• In a large bowl, using an electric mixer set on medium speed, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
• Beat in eggs and buttermilk until well blended.
• Stir in flour mixture just until blended, being careful not to overmix.
• Divide batter between 2 bowls.
• Stir vanilla into 1 bowl of batter.
• Stir melted chocolate into remaining bowl of batter.
• Spoon the vanilla batter into one side of each prepared muffin cup, filling the cups two-thirds full.
• Spoon the chocolate batter into the other half of each muffin cup.
• Fill the 2 empty cups with water for even baking.
• Bake muffins until a toothpick inserted in center of one comes out clean, 15-17 minutes.
• Transfer the pan to a wire rack; let muffins cool for 5 minutes.
• Turn muffins onto the rack; cool completely.
• Note: To jazz these up, top half of a muffin with chocolate icing and the other half with white icing.
• Also, you can make marbled muffins by swirling the two batters together.

BEST EVER MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
• Stir together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Make a well in the center. In a small bowl or 2 cup measuring cup, beat egg with a fork. Stir in milk and oil. Pour all at once into the well in the flour mixture. Mix quickly and lightly with a fork until moistened, but do not beat. The batter will be lumpy. Pour the batter into paper lined muffin pan cups.
• Variations: Blueberry Muffins: Add 1 cup fresh blueberries. Raisin Muffins: Add 1 cup finely chopped raisins. Date Muffins: Add 1 cup finely chopped dates. Cheese Muffins: Fold in 1 cup grated sharp yellow cheese. Bacon Muffins: Fold 1/4 cup crisp cooked bacon, broken into bits.
• Bake for 25 minutes, or until golden.