One of the things that Little Oats is really into lately is baking. She loves checking the ‘list’ (recipe) and gathering ingredients. She really likes to stir, and her favourite part is tasting. We’ve made a few different recipes lately; cookies, cake, muffins and edible playdough! But last Friday, Mr. O was home, and he and Little Oats decided to make his favourite muffin recipe of all time: Maple Syrup Muffins. They aren’t the healthiest recipe in our repertoire, but they are seriously delicious.
Maple Syrup Muffins
Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp salt
1 1/4 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup maple syrup
Glaze:
1 tbsp butter, melted
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 tbsp maple syrup
In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar and salt until light and fluffy. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and rolled oats. Using a pastry cutter (or two knives, or your fingers), blend the butter mixture with the dry ingredients until crumbly. Stir in milk and maple syrup until just combined. Spoon into 12 greased or lined muffin cups, and bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes.
Mix the glaze together, and spread over the muffins while still warm. Enjoy!
nectarine / 2047 posts
Yum! I loooove maple syrup!
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
Oh I was just looking for a muffin recipe for this week. Have you tried cutting any of the white sugar or replacing some flour with whole wheat? Or does that just defeat the purpose?
blogger / honeydew / 7081 posts
@Foodnerd81: I bet both of those subs would work. I haven’t tried either, but you could easily switch out the flour (might change the texture a bit), and you can cut back the sugar, or just forget the glaze on top.
honeydew / 7444 posts
Yum, i love maple muffins!
@Foodnerd81: I like using whole wheat pastry flour to substitute all purpose flour, and have had positive results. If i’m not sure of the recipe, i’ll use 1/2 and 1/2. You can also reduce sugar by 25% in muffin recipes without compromising the recipe…it could be reduced to about 1/3 cup here.