Muffins for lunches?

[FartnissEverbeans]

Hi everyone, I'm a terrible cook butDS is starting to enjoy proper solid food so I found a recipe on Pinterest tonight and decided to give it a go - a banana muffin thing. Preliminary checks suggest it is going badly and all 'muffins' are a squishy mess.

However, I really like the idea of muffins for lunches! Does anyone have a basic muffin recipe that I could adapt for different ingredients (savory and sweet)?Any help would be appreciated

[FartnissEverbeans]

Yup, complete disaster. Why can't I get them out of the muffin cases??

[cheesychops]

Yes I love muffins for lunches for me and the little ones!!
Just grease the tin first and don't bother with muffin cases.
I make spinach and cheese ones which go down well.

[AtleastitsnotMonday]

Silicon muffin trays work well. The key with any muffin is not to over stir the mixture.

[TheDropBear]

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I really like this book, it has a recipe for a basic muffin mix and then a section on what ingredients can be substituted in and in what quantities.

[FartnissEverbeans]

Spinach and cheese sounds great, and I'll be giving the cases a miss next time! Might invest in a silicone tin.

What proportions of flour etc. do other people use? The recipe I had called for 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of oats, a mashed banana and a mashed avocado. It was all sticky inside, though it did rise quite well.

[Tanaqui]

No egg or fat? In that case it was a healthy "mock" muffin, and will never come out as easily- basic muffin mix is some kind of fat, flour and egg- plus sugar/ fruit etc if sweet, or cheese/ veggies etc if savoury!

[Tanaqui]

Although some of the healthier versions are very nice! They don't tend to keep as well though.

[cheesychops]

But make sure you still grease the silicone! I made that mistake last time- not disastrous but a pain to get them out!

[AtleastitsnotMonday]

Good muffin recipes combine melted butter and yoghurt. I use this Hairy Bikers recipe.

[Hobbitch]

My failsafe muffin recipe is:
150g flour
2 tsp baking powder
100ml milk
2 eggs
4 tbsp oil
Either 1 tsp salt for savoury or 1 tbsp sugar for sweet.

Then add whatever you want. For savoury I like cheddar and leek or onion (precooked), feta and pepper, tuna and olive... For sweet my fave is finely diced apple and cinnamon.

[FartnissEverbeans]

Thanks so much everyone, this is really helpful! I'm going to go have a look at that Hairy Bikers link and the book on Amazon now

[OhtoblazeswithElvira]

Hobbitch what temperature do you bake them at, and how long for?

TIA