Or at least that’s what the dictionary says. Muffins are pretty American, about as unlikely a find in Europe as brownies. But fresh blueberries were on sale (99 euro cents for 125 grams!) and I even found Italian-made bran cereal.
The recipe is based on one from epicurious:
Mix together:
1 egg
1/4 c sunflower oil (instead of butter)
1/4 c milk
Others suggest using applesauce instead of all the oil, seems like a good idea. I also considered honey and reducing the sugar.
Mix together separately:
3/4 whole wheat flour
1/4 c sugar (i used less than half the amount called before because the bran cereal was sweetened)
1 t. baking powder (vanillized, as this is how it comes in Italy)
1/4 c bran cereal (i tried to crush it, but that was too tedious; as it was, it gave more crunchiness this way, as if I had put in sunflower seeds, which sounded good too, but i didn’t have any)
Combine the wet stuff into the dry stuff, fold in blueberries. Bake at ~218 C for ~20 min. I think my oven here is a bit too hot because I took them out just before the 20 min were up.
We’d found muffin cups at the euro store. But no muffin tins anywhere… How does one make muffins without the tins? Bella brilliantly suggested doubling the papers, so we did and squeezed as many as we could into a small pan, but they still came out with some funky shapes.
As a bonus, we had found a pastry tube at the 1 euro store too, and we wanted to try that out. I had left out some butter to eat with the muffins and when it softened I fluffed it up and it looked like frosting. And, wouldn’t you know, I had gotten some vanillized powdered sugar yesterday too, so we made icing and decorated them.
Now for a walk up the hill!
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