Kenny Rogers' Corn Muffins

Thanks to the recent popular 7-link tag game, and i got to know this Kenny Roger's Corn muffins at Kitchen Flavours's blog as this muffin is her most popular post.

I'm glad that I can use the cornmeal for this recipe which already sitting in the fridge for quite some time. I replaced the frozen yellow corns with fresh corn kernels but this was not an good idea, the corn turned quite hard after baked.

Kenny Rogers' Corn Muffins
Recipe souce: adapted from Kitchen Flavours, original from recipe.goldmine.com, with minor changes

Ingredients :
125g butter, softened
80g caster sugar
1/4 cup honey ( reduce about 1 tablespoon from the 1/4 cup)
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
200g all-purpose flour
3/4 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 teaspoon baking powder (I changed to double action baking powder)
1/2 cup milk
3/4 cup frozen yellow corn ( I use fresh corn kernels)

Method
1. Cream together butter, sugar and salt in a mixing bowl till light and creamy.
2. Add honey and egg, combine well.
3. Add flour, cornmeal and baking powder and blend thoroughly.
4. Add milk while mixing.
5. Last add corn to the mixture and combine until corn is worked in.
6. Grease a 12 cup muffin pan and fill each cup with batter.
7. Bake at pre-heated oven at 180c for 25min.

Nigella's Chocolate Chocolate-Chip Muffins 双重巧克力满分

The other day, I made this super easy and quick muffins when my daughter's friend came over to our house.

I saw this muffin recipe posted by few bloggers, SSB, Cook.Bake.Love and Eileen, yes, this muffin is very good and easy to be prepared. I did slightly adjusted the recipe as i found the batter is quite runny when i added the liquid mixture (i think due to the convesion of cups to kg)..and next time I have to reduce the temperature also as the chocolate chips on top was slightly burnt.

Nigella's Chocolate Chocolate-Chip Muffins
(recipe souce : adapted from SSB, original from here, with minor changes)
*makes 12-14 muffins

250g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp good quality cocoa powder
170g caster sugar
150g chocolate chips (save 1/4 of the chips for sprinkling, i use twist white choc and chocolate chips)
200ml milk
80ml vegetable oil
1 large egg
1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 200 deg C (next time I will reduce to 180-190c).
2. Put the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, sugar, and 3/4 of the chocolate chips into a large bowl and mix well.
3. Pour all the liquid ingredients into a measuring jug and mix well.
4. Mix the dry and wet ingredients together with slow and gentle strokes. Stop stirring once the last traces of flour disappear. Do not overmix. A lumpy batter will ensure the muffins stay moist and fluffy.
5. Spoon the batter into paper muffin cases.
6. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 chocolate chips on top and bake for 20 minutes or until the muffins are dark, risen and springy.

**also i would like to thank to a blogger friend who sent me these lovely cupcake liners...

Happy Baking !!