V-Day Cornbread muffins
What would Valentine's Day be without something red? A good start, if you ask me. But, setting all my anti-commercialism aside, I got a wild hair and made these muffins especially for Valentine's Day. They can be made any day of the year, of course, but the red color and cinnamon flavor probably fit best with winter holidays.
If you want to over do it, get a heart-shaped muffin pan. I'm using a regular one because that's all I have. You could suggest that I'm gauche or low brow for only having round muffin pans -- but that would be elitist, wouldn't it?
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups pastry flour
1 1/2 cups cornmeal
4 apples
1 package Cinnamon candies
1/2 cup soy milk
Egg replacer (equivalent to 2 eggs)
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon ginger
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and start boiling a pot of water (about 3 cups) on the stove. Then, mix the pastry flour, cornmeal, baking powder and spices together in a bowl.
When your pot of water is boiling, add the package of cinnamon candies and let turn the heat down to med-hi. The idea is to boil the candies down into a syrup.
During this time, peel, core, and dice the apples.
Add the egg replacer (prepared with warm water as directed) and the soy milk to the dry ingredients. Once your cinnamon candies have boiled down into a syrup, add them and all but a few of the apples to the bowl, too.
Mix everything up.
Grease your muffin pans. I'm using two so there will be some large muffins and some small muffins.
Spoon the mixture into the muffin pans. Smaller spoons work better for smaller sized pans.
Sprinkle the remaining apple pieces on the muffins.
Be sure to lick the bowl clean.
Bake the muffins for about 25-30 minutes.
I put a few in a bag for someone special but you can eat them all yourself if you want.
Variations:
You don't have to use apples, you can use any fruit you want. If you want to make them for fourth of july, you could use apples and blueberries. Or, if you leave the fruit out altogether, you could frost them with vanilla or something.
If you want to over do it, get a heart-shaped muffin pan. I'm using a regular one because that's all I have. You could suggest that I'm gauche or low brow for only having round muffin pans -- but that would be elitist, wouldn't it?
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups pastry flour
1 1/2 cups cornmeal
4 apples
1 package Cinnamon candies
1/2 cup soy milk
Egg replacer (equivalent to 2 eggs)
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon ginger
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and start boiling a pot of water (about 3 cups) on the stove. Then, mix the pastry flour, cornmeal, baking powder and spices together in a bowl.
When your pot of water is boiling, add the package of cinnamon candies and let turn the heat down to med-hi. The idea is to boil the candies down into a syrup.
During this time, peel, core, and dice the apples.
Add the egg replacer (prepared with warm water as directed) and the soy milk to the dry ingredients. Once your cinnamon candies have boiled down into a syrup, add them and all but a few of the apples to the bowl, too.
Mix everything up.
Grease your muffin pans. I'm using two so there will be some large muffins and some small muffins.
Spoon the mixture into the muffin pans. Smaller spoons work better for smaller sized pans.
Sprinkle the remaining apple pieces on the muffins.
Be sure to lick the bowl clean.
Bake the muffins for about 25-30 minutes.
I put a few in a bag for someone special but you can eat them all yourself if you want.
Variations:
You don't have to use apples, you can use any fruit you want. If you want to make them for fourth of july, you could use apples and blueberries. Or, if you leave the fruit out altogether, you could frost them with vanilla or something.
posted by Matthew @ 9:53 AM
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