Muffins are charming cupcakes that simply bribe with their size and appearance. Miniature baked goods always look cute, while cooking is quick and easy. However, she does not need rare ingredients. Most recipes are on regular sour cream. A well-known, affordable product, is in almost any refrigerator. So it's time to cook!
Sour cream muffins - general principles of preparation
The dough for muffins is always prepared semi-liquid. He does not need to stand. It is enough to combine all the ingredients, mix thoroughly. Then the mass is laid out in tins and immediately sent to the oven.
General principles of kneading dough:
1. Sour cream. For the test, a product with a fat content of at least 20% is used. Diet sour cream is not the best option for making airy and light dough.
2 eggs. For muffins, they do not need to be whipped into a strong foam, just stir with a whisk or a fork. Usually mixed in the first stage with sugar. If the eggs are small, then it is better to take more, but not less.
3. Flour. It is always mixed with baking powder, cocoa and other loose ingredients, and only then combines with the liquid mass.
4. Oil. It is not always used. Fats make baking softer, delay hardness. Vegetable or butter in most recipes can be replaced with margarine.
5. Rippers. Soda is quenched with acid, added to the dough at the very end. If baking powder baking powder is used, then it is mixed with flour, nothing needs to be extinguished.
In addition to the main ingredients, flavor enhancers are often added to muffins: vanilla, zest, cocoa and other aromatic additives. Usually they are mixed in the dough. Special pastries make fillings in the form of raisins, chocolate, jam or jam. Muffins can be decorated on top after baking. The easiest way is to cover with chocolate glaze from melted tiles. You can cover the cupcake with mastic, decorate with air cream, use other decorative elements.
Conventional sour cream muffins
A recipe for vanilla muffins on sour cream, which is always tender and airy. For cooking, butter is also used, which can be replaced with vanilla.
Ingredients
• 3 eggs;
• 300 g sour cream;
• 2 g vanilla;
• 300 g flour;
• 100 g of oil;
• 180 g of sugar;
• 1 tsp ripper;
• salt.
Cooking
1. In a sieve we combine vanilla with a cultivator and flour, sift in a dry bowl. For a while, remove the mixture to the side, but not far. Soon it will come in handy.
2. Take a second bowl, break the eggs, add sugar, beat with a whisk until the grains dissolve, no foam is needed.
3. Add warm softened butter and immediately add sour cream. Knead the mixture until smooth.
4. Combine the flour loose mixture with the bulk of the dough, stir.
5. If desired, add candied fruits, raisins, pieces of chocolate to the muffins.
6. We spread the prepared dough into molds, filling the cups in 2/3 of the volume.
7. Put in the oven for half an hour. We bake mini cupcakes pi 180 degrees. You can check the readiness of products with a stick or a match, tingling in the central part.
Chocolate muffins on sour cream without butter
Dark cocoa powder is used in the dough for such muffins. For the filling you need a little bittersweet chocolate. You can take chocolate droplets, it also turns out delicious with them. Another feature of the recipe is a complete lack of fat.
Ingredients
• 3 eggs;
• 150 g sour cream;
• 150 sugar;
• 25 g of cocoa;
• 200 g flour;
• salt;
• 1.5 tsp cultivator;
• 50 g of chocolate.
Cooking
1. Combine sugar with sour cream and eggs. Stir the mass until the sand is completely dissolved.
2. Combine the flour with cocoa, throw a small pinch of salt and a cultivator. You can take soda, but in this case you need to add it at the end to an already finished dough. Soda should be taken in half.
3. Mix the chocolate flour with the bulk. We interfere to uniformity.
4. Chop the chocolate in pieces the size of a twist. Stir in the dough.
5. Put the dough in standard molds, do not add much.
6. Sent to the oven. It should already be warmed up to 190.
7. Bake chocolate muffins for 30-35 minutes. It is advisable to check the readiness before removing the cupcakes.
8. Take out, cool. If necessary, you can douse the cupcakes with chocolate icing on top, it will be even tastier.
Orange Muffins on Sour Cream
A recipe for very fragrant muffins stuffed with sour cream, for which you need orange jam. Also for the test you need zest. If there are no fresh citruses, then you can pour dried zest into the dough, it will also be aromatic and tasty.
Ingredients
• 100 g sour cream;
• 6 tsp jam of orange;
• 50 g of sugar;
• 200 g flour;
• 30 ml of oil;
• 1 egg;
• 6 g of ripper;
• 1 tsp zest.
Cooking
1. The dough is kneaded in the usual way. Combine in a bowl sour cream with sugar and one egg. If it is small, for example, of the second category, then it is better to take two eggs. Mix everything thoroughly.
2. Add the flour. Next, pour orange or lemon, tangerine zest. Knead the dough, gradually add vegetable oil according to the recipe.
3. We put a little dough into the molds. You should get about 6-7 muffins.
4. Now put a teaspoon of orange jam on the dough. Similarly, you can take jam, marmalade or other filling, but it should not be liquid.
5. Cover the orange filling with dough on top.
6. Move the molds with future cupcakes onto a baking sheet and place in the oven.
7. Such muffins will be baked for 35 minutes at 180 degrees. But do not forget to follow, suddenly the pastries will be cooked earlier.
Muffins on sour cream with cottage cheese
Recipe for curd muffins on sour cream. You can use cottage cheese of any fat content in them, but the product should have an average consistency, that is, it is better not to use a liquid or excessively dry product, it is difficult to get the correct consistency of the dough with it.
Ingredients
• 2 eggs;
• 3 tablespoons of sugar;
• ½ tsp cultivator;
• 200 g flour;
• 200 g of cottage cheese;
• 80 g sour cream;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Grind the cottage cheese until smooth, introduce sour cream, stir.
2. Pour sugar, it goes a little. Optionally, you can add a couple more spoons, but no more. Stir.
3. Add the egg to the dough, then break the second. Grind everything together until smooth.
4. Add vanilla and flour, immediately add the baking powder. Mix for the last time and the dough is ready.
5. We put them in molds, filling them a little higher than half.
6. Put the cottage cheese muffins for baking. Cooking muffins at 200 degrees. For standard-sized molds, it will take about 20-23 minutes.
Sour Cream Banana Muffins
A recipe for lush and tender banana muffins. This option differs from previous recipes in technology. Eggs require good beating, then the baking will turn out really airy and magnificent.
Ingredients
• 150 g of fat sour cream;
• 130 g of sugar;
• 1.5 tbsp. flour;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 banana;
• 50 g of oil;
• vanilla and 8 g of ripper.
Cooking
1. We take a ripe banana. Be sure to sniff it when buying. If the banana smells, then feel free to throw it in the basket. If the fruit does not emit any aroma, then it will be soapy and tasteless, the cupcakes will turn out not very tasty. Knead the fruit in mashed potatoes.
2. Add sour cream and softened butter to the banana, stir.
3. In a bowl, mix the eggs and sugar, immerse the mixer, beat the mass until lush foam for at least five minutes.
4. Add beaten eggs to sour cream, mix gently.
5. Immediately introduce the flour with vanilla, we throw the prescription baking powder. Mix the dough repeatedly.
6. We lay out the mass according to the molds.
7. Bake muffins from banana dough until cooked. We use the temperature within 180-190, in time the process will take 25-30 minutes.
Sour cream muffins with cherries
For such muffins on sour cream, you can use not only fresh, but also frozen cherry berries. Only in this case they need to be removed in advance, remove the seeds and squeeze from the juice. The same goes for canned cherries, which can also be used for this baking.
Ingredients
• 150 g sour cream;
• 100 g margarine;
• 1.5 tbsp. flour;
• 2/3 Art. Sahara;
• 1 tbsp. Cherries
• 1 tsp cultivator;
• large egg.
Cooking
1. If the egg is small, then break two pieces or take 1.5. Shake it up.
2. Add sugar to the egg bowl, stir.
3. Next we introduce sour cream.
4. Soften margarine for baking, but do not need to melt it. Add to the bulk.
5. Fill the dough with flour with a baking powder, mix.
6. We free cherries from seeds, drain excess juice, the test does not need additional moisture.
7. Stir the cherries into the dough. We lay out in molds.
8. Either we put the dough in each form, then the filling of berries. Top with a new layer of dough.
9. Send the cherry muffins to bake. On average, the process will take half an hour. The optimum temperature for products is 180 ° C.
Sour cream muffins - useful tips and tricks
• If no butter is used in the dough, then it is better to take fat cream for it. Otherwise, the muffins will not turn out soft, and the taste can suffer.
• To make chocolate muffins really dark and aromatic, you need to choose a good cocoa powder. It should not contain extraneous additives, and even sugar. If the recipe is with chocolate, then it should also be dark with a cocoa content above 70%. The exception is toppings, for them you can use any candy, chocolates, milk tiles.
• Is there very little sour cream and not enough to knead the dough? You can dilute the product with yogurt or kefir, to add fat, add a little vegetable oil or any margarine.
• Sour cream muffins will be unusually fragrant if you add a little cognac or Bailey's to the dough. Enough 2 teaspoons.
