French toast muffins

What french toast is, I think, everybody know. Just to remind you, it is a slice of bread or brioche dipped in beaten egg, milk, cinnamon and grated nutmeg mixture, fried on a pan, served with maple syrup. Tasty breakfast :) When I found french toast muffins recipe on Sprinkle Bakes blog I had to bake them. Those muffins are spongy, fluffy, with spicy scent, not too sweet, a little bit sticky from maple syrup. I like them :)

Ingredients for 12-18 muffins:

• 290g flour
• 60g caster sugar
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
• pinch of salt
• 2 eggs
• 250 ml buttermilk
• 45g melted butter
• maple syrup
• icing sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 200C. Line muffin tin with paper cases. 

Melt the butter.

In a big bowl sift the flour, sugar, soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Whisk them together, set aside.

In separate jug whisk with fork eggs and butter milk. Pour this mixture into bowl with dry ingredients and the butter. With spoon combine all ingredients, do not over stir them. Spoon the batter into paper cases, 1/2 full. Bake for 10-15 min, check after 10 min. 

When baked, leave them for a while in baking tin. Later place them on wire rack. While they cooling down with toothpick make a holes on muffins, spoon over the maple syrup gently, let the syrup sink in the muffins, 2 tsp each. When finished dust with icing sugar. Enjoy !

Plum muffins

I have recently seen plums in grocery shop. I bought them and decided to bake something. By something I mean muffins of course :). On this website I found yummy recipe. I have to say this one is my favourite. They are not only very tasty but look very good as well. Purple colour plums' skin look beautiful with nice golden baked dough.

Ingredients for 16 muffins:

• 250g melted butter/margarine
• 200g sugar
• pinch of salt
• 4 eggs
• 350g flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 8 big plums pitted and cut in four pieces
• almond flakes
• icing sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 200C. Line muffin tin with paper cases.

Melt the butter or margarine in a sauce pan or in microwave. Leave it on a side to cool down. In a meantime wash plums, remove the stones and cut the plums in fours. Mix the flour with baking powder.

Sift the sugar and salt into melted butter, whisk everything together until creamy. Add one egg at a time, whisking continuously. Fold in the flour. Do not over stir the dough, it should have consistency of pancakes batter.

Fill in 1/3 of muffin cases with the dough, put piece of plum and add the rest of the dough into all muffins. On the top of each muffin stick another piece of plum and sprinkle with almond flakes.  

Bake 25-30 min. Check with toothpick if they are baked in the middle. Cool them down on wire rack and dust with icing sugar.

Before baking