Kefir muffins

Hello to all fans of simple and savory baked goods! On the big stage we have a drink again - this miracle ingredient, with the help of which muffins and cookies come out one-two-three. And the current highlight of the program will be kefir muffins.

Muffins, if suddenly everyone is not already in the know, are sweet pastries a la cupcake, which are often made with the insides of fruits, nuts, chocolate and absolutely anything that your imagination is capable of. Their main feature is their size; a muffin is usually no larger than an adult palm. But you will agree that size somehow magically affects the taste, and these mini-cupcakes not only look very appetizing, but also taste different from their harsh, huge brothers. So for lovers of muffins in all their forms, having muffin tins in the kitchen cabinet is a real must have.

Some people make do with ordinary paper molds, while others use iron or Teflon. And some are a die-hard fan of baking in silicone molds.

But, regardless of the material, if you are the happy owner of muffin tins, I am simply sure that you will head to the kitchen as soon as you read the recipe. After all, it is extremely ordinary; we don’t even need a mixer.

Basic recipe for kefir muffins:

List of goods:

butter - 125 gr.
medium-sized eggs - 3 pcs.
sweet sand - 150 gr.
drink – 250 ml
flour - 250 gr.
baking powder - 2 tsp.
salt - a pinch
sweet powder - for sprinkling

Don't forget: all the ingredients for the muffins are always brought to room temperature!

We will prepare it like this:

First preheat the oven to 180º. If your molds are not made of silicone, then they must be greased with oil or lined with cardboard capsules.
Melt the butter over low heat and leave to cool.
In a deep bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar. Add previously melted and now cooled butter to them and mix lightly again.
Now the next step is a drink - the temperature of which must be brought to room temperature in advance - add it and mix again with a whisk.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a separate container and mix all the dry ingredients together.
Evenly, in several batches, introduce the dry mixture into the watery mixture, each time carefully mixing with a whisk or just a spoon. As a result, we get a fairly watery mass, close in mixture to sour cream.
Pour the dough into silicone molds (or those that are currently on hand) and put them in an oven already preheated to 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes.
When baked, “correct” muffins rise above the pan like a cap and burst appetizingly on top.
All you have to do is cool the finished cupcakes, remove them from the molds and add the final touch, sprinkling them with sweet powder.

Voila! Creating them seems to be even faster than learning a recipe.

But we won’t stop there, and right now we’ll come up with something more exciting for you.

How to improve a basic muffin recipe?

And here, as you certainly thought, we will talk about cupcakes with entrails. We will look at the elegant chocolate ones, banana ones so beloved by children, and also with apples and currants.

Chocolate muffins

Here you can go in 2 ways:

Firstly, you can simply add chocolate drops to the dough made according to the basic recipe described a little higher, and the finished muffins will be transformed right away.
The second option is to use cocoa in the dough, then the muffins themselves will become a noble chocolate color, and the smell emanating from the oven will haunt you for all the minutes allotted for baking. To do this, in the basic recipe, instead of 50 grams of flour, add 50 grams of cocoa (you can take more of it, if desired). And don’t forget to sift it to avoid nasty lumps in the finished baked goods.

Muffins with apples or currants

For lovers of sourness in baking, there is also freedom in baking - for example, for muffin dough according to the basic recipe, dried cranberries or cherries are excellent. I suggest that you pay attention to the following options.

Firstly, a win-win combination of apples and cinnamon. Everything here is down to elementary simple. We cut sour apples (or any apples that you like with the insides or just have on hand) into small cubes, add cinnamon to them, mix and add to the dough made according to the basic recipe at the very end. 1 apple will be completely enough.
The second option for the inside of cupcakes, which will give them a cool smell, taste and color, is dark currant. Take whatever you have, fresh or frozen. Let's add a few currants to the finished dough and get a new, ordinary, but very special dessert.

Banana muffins

And these muffins are real satisfaction for kids, and no less satisfaction for mothers, because you can eat already overripe and completely ugly black bananas. Pay attention, we won’t need the drink here anymore.

List of goods:

bananas - 3 pcs. (this is about 400 gr.)
butter - 100 gr.
sweet sand – 150 gr.
eggs - 2 pcs.
flour - 250 gr.
baking powder - 2 tsp.

Manufacturing:

Preheat the oven to 180º and line the muffin tin with cardboard capsules.
Mash the bananas with a fork into “porridge”.
Beat the butter softened to room temperature with sugar until fluffy, and later add banana puree and mix well. It is more convenient to use a mixer for this recipe.
Add eggs one at a time into the mixture, beating until smooth.
Now add the sifted flour along with baking powder and mix lightly with a spatula. When the dry ingredients have combined with the “wet” ones, pour the dough into the molds.
Bake banana muffins in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Keep a close eye on their readiness so as not to dry out the cupcakes.

These muffins will have a slightly wet crumb, which is typical for banana breads. And the smell will call all the banana fans in your family, young and old, to the kitchen. By the way, chocolate drops fit perfectly into this recipe.

Please note that muffins with entrails usually rise a little less in the oven than those baked without additional ingredients.

And these improved muffins are also great to serve while still warm.

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Savory kefir muffins

Previously, my husband wondered why I was buying a drink at the store that would expire tomorrow. Now I’m used to it, and don’t even ask if I’m ready for any of my tests in the kitchen. If I'm planning to bake something tasty, an old drink from the store shelf will certainly end up in my cart!

Baking is not as tender as kefir, neither with butter nor with milk.
And if the drink is also expired (by 2-3 days), it will be the most magical in baking - it has been tested several times. Now I’ll tell you how to make delicious kefir muffins. If you have this fermented milk product on hand, join us! Also, take note of such recipes as Thin pancakes with kefir, Biscuit with kefir, Pancakes with kefir.

Basic recipe:

All ingredients must be at room temperature.

Butter - 120 g
Testicles of group C 0 (large) - 2 pcs.
Sweet sand – 150 g
Drink – 250 ml.
Flour - 250 g
Baking powder - 2 tsp.
Salt - on the tip of a knife

How to make muffins with kefir:

The first thing you need to do is preheat the oven to 180 C. Let it heat for 15 minutes or more, so that by the time the cakes appear in it, it is thoroughly warmed up.

Now place the butter in a saucepan and heat over heat until watery. The butter must melt one hundred percent and then cool to room temperature. If we add hot oil to the dough, the eggs will curl.

Break the eggs (2 pcs.) into a wide bowl and start mixing with a mixer at medium speed.

When foam appears, add sweet sand in a narrow stream. You can place a glass of sugar next to the mixing bowl and add a tablespoon at a time so that the sugar is added evenly and does not spill out all at once.

At the end of whipping (the whole process takes me 5-8 minutes), the egg-sugar mass should look like thick snow-white foam. Looking into the bowl, it’s even hard to believe that there are yolks in it (in appearance, the mass looks as if we are going to bake meringues).

Now pour in the butter in a narrow stream (I remember that the butter must have cooled to room temperature by this time). Stir again.

Chocolate muffins

How can you make the main recipe better?

There are many options here: add finely chopped nuts, candied fruits, a small amount of berries, raisins or other dried fruits to the finished dough. You can create chocolate muffins by adding heat-stable chocolate drops or a chocolate bar chopped with a knife. To make chocolate muffins, you can use cocoa powder (50 g), but at the same time reduce the amount of flour by 50 g. In other words, we follow the basic recipe, but make the amendments that I mentioned. I didn’t add step-by-step photos, because the manufacturing principle is similar.

Muffins with apples and cinnamon

To make the insides, cut the apples into pieces (it is better to use sour varieties), add cinnamon and mix. We put the filling into the dough made according to the main dough. Mix and place in molds.

You can experiment with additives and entrails, updating the recipe to suit your own tastes. Share the fruits of your own labors in the comments! I will be glad to see photos of the finished muffins, read reviews and responses to the recipe.

There is a good recipe for banana muffins on the You Tube video channel, which I recorded especially for you, I invite you to watch and look forward to your responses under the video =)

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Kefir muffins recipes

Kefir muffins turn out indescribably tender, soft and airy. Even a seasoned cook can prepare such a delicacy, because the preparation of the preparation is very simple. To add variety to the taste, you can add cocoa, slices of fruit, nuts, etc.

Kefir muffins

Recipe No. 1 (Traditional)

All of the following ingredients should be at room temperature and when adding a new ingredient, mix well with a mixer to avoid lumps. Cooking time up to 40 minutes.

drink (250ml)
sugar(200g)
vegetable oil (110ml) or butter 130g (melted, cooled)
eggs(1 piece)
flour(250g)
baking powder(10g)
vanillin(2g)
salt (pinch)

1.Pour sifted flour, salt, baking powder, vanillin and sugar into a bowl.

2. Pour the drink, egg, butter into another plate and beat everything with a whisk (or mixer) until smooth. Eat? Now add the dry ingredients, whisking constantly. Make sure there are no lumps.

3. Pour the resulting mass into cardboard molds (just not one hundred percent, because they rise during baking) and bake in a previously preheated oven at 180C for 20 minutes.

Tips on how to create kefir muffins the first time

temperature range 180-190C (muffins made with kefir are baked, rise and do not burn)
Do not, under any circumstances, pull the oven door open for the first 15 minutes to prevent them from falling.
Fill the molds 2/3 full with dough, because they rise during the process.
add additional ingredients (nuts, fruits, chocolate) at the end, when the dough is already prepared
At the end of the process, do not immediately remove the muffins (let them cool first so as not to fall off).

#2 Chocolate muffins

cocoa powder(45g)
flour(200g)
drink (500ml)
sugar(120g)
eggs(1 piece)
soda (2 pinches)
vanillin (pinch)

1.Pour sugar into the container with the egg and begin to whisk it into a fluffy foam. Eat? Then pour in the drink and start stirring again until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Kefir muffins recipes

Kefir muffins

Recipe No. 1 (Traditional)

All of the following ingredients should be at room temperature and when adding a new ingredient, mix well with a mixer to avoid lumps. Cooking time up to 40 minutes.

drink (250ml)
sugar(200g)
vegetable oil (110ml) or butter 130g (melted, cooled)
eggs(1 piece)
flour(250g)
baking powder(10g)
vanillin(2g)
salt (pinch)

1.Pour sifted flour, salt, baking powder, vanillin and sugar into a bowl.

2. Pour the drink, egg, butter into another plate and beat everything with a whisk (or mixer) until smooth. Eat? Now add the dry ingredients, whisking constantly. Make sure there are no lumps.

3. Pour the resulting mass into cardboard molds (just not one hundred percent, because they rise during baking) and bake in a previously preheated oven at 180C for 20 minutes.

Tips on how to create kefir muffins the first time

temperature range 180-190C (muffins made with kefir are baked, rise and do not burn)
Do not, under any circumstances, pull the oven door open for the first 15 minutes to prevent them from falling.
Fill the molds 2/3 full with dough, because they rise during the process.
add additional ingredients (nuts, fruits, chocolate) at the end, when the dough is already prepared
At the end of the process, do not immediately remove the muffins (let them cool first so as not to fall off).

#2 Chocolate muffins

cocoa powder(45g)
flour(200g)
drink (500ml)
sugar(120g)
eggs(1 piece)
soda (2 pinches)
vanillin (pinch)

1.Pour sugar into the container with the egg and begin to whisk it into a fluffy foam. Eat? Then pour in the drink and start stirring again until the sugar is completely dissolved.

2. In a separate bowl, add flour (be sure to sift it), cocoa, vanillin + soda and mix for the best distribution.

3. We begin to introduce the “loose” mixture into the egg-kefir mixture, beating with a mixer. Pour the purchased dough into cardboard molds 2/3 full and bake for 20 minutes at 180C.

Kefir muffins with ham and cheese

120ml kefir
2 eggs
130g flour
ham(100g)
80g cheese
1 tsp baking powder
salt (0.5 tsp)
sugar (pinch)
vegetable oil (2 tbsp) or butter, melted and cooled

1. In a bowl, combine the drink, salt, vegetable oil and knead. In another container, stir the sifted flour, baking powder and sugar. Grate the cheese and chop the ham into small cubes.

2. Combine dry ingredients with watery ones, add cheese + ham and knead the dough. Pour the dough into paper molds and bake for up to 20 minutes in a previously preheated oven.

Curd cupcakes recipe

cottage cheese(130g)
flour(200g)
1 egg
drink(500ml)
60g butter
baking powder(5g)
a pinch of vanillin and salt

1. Grind the cottage cheese through a sieve or in a blender until smooth. Then add sugar, vanillin, and the previously beaten egg and stir.