Tuna and Sweet Corn Muffins

I never make any savory muffins before. When I saw the pictures and recipe of Tuna and Sweet Corn from Happy Home Baking, I was really tempted to try them. I made these muffins and gave it away to a few relatives when my mother was visiting them. I was glad that my mother like how they taste like. It's good to bake something savory once in a while.

Tuna and Sweet Corn Muffins
(Altered from Happy Home Baking)

60g tuna chunk (I used canned tuna chunk in olive oil)
50g sweet corns kernels (I used canned)
half of a medium-size yellow onion (finely chopped)
some vegetable oil

180g flour
2 tsp baking powder
80ml vegetable oil
25g granulated sugar
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp chili powder (I like it a bit spicy)
1 large egg, lightly beaten
120g milk

1. Saute chopped onion with some vegetable oil over medium to low heat until the onion turns soft and translucent. Leave to cool. 
2. Drain tuna, break into smaller pieces with a fork, set aside.
3. Sieve together the dry ingredients - cake flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and chili powder using a wire whisk, set aside. 
4. In a mixing bowl, beat all the wet ingredients - oil, egg and milk.
5. Using a spatula, fold in the wet ingredients into the dried ingredients. Then, fold in the tuna chunks and sweet corn kernels.
6. Spoon batter into paper cups or muffin pans lined with paper liners. 
7. Bake muffins at 180degrees C for 18 ~ 20mins or until a tooth pick inserted into the centre comes out clean. (Note the muffins will only be very lightly browned due to the small amount of sugar used.) Best served hot or warm from the oven.

My Culinary Moment #2: Colored Vanilla Muffins

Last week, I was really busy with baking vanilla muffins. An ex-schoolmate ordered 1600 muffins for her wedding - as a door gift to the guest. Making 1600 muffins on your own was not easy. So, I started making these muffins a few days earlier. I made these muffins into a few colors - red, orange, pink, purple, blue and peach. And these muffins comes with a few designs too - spiral, polka dots and marbled. I think, marbled muffins looks the best!

Working with lots of muffins isn't as easy as I thought. You have to work quicker with muffins. You need to pop them into the oven once you mix the ingredients and scoop them into the paper cups to prevent loss of volume. So, I figured that I should be preparing the muffin mix in advance. I weighted the dry ingredients, sifted them and portioned them into 250g each packet. I figured that I couldn't work with large volume of muffins all in once as I was working in the kitchen by myself. There's no way that I could scoop the muffins into the pan, checking the muffins in the oven, cooling the muffins and arranging them on the table all at once.

Fortunately, my family helped me a lot with packaging (my customer requested me to package the muffins into individual packaging). Folding the small boxes and packaging those muffins were time consuming. So I am really glad that they help me with packaging and counting those muffins. THANK YOU! :)

Experimenting: English Muffins

I've always wanted to try making English Muffins. When I found a recipe of English Muffin from Corner Loaf, I decided to give it a try. I mean, Corner Loaf's English Muffins looks really good!

Don't let your eyes deceive you, though. My muffins turn out to be under cook in the inside (I wish I snap a picture of how the inside to show you how it looks like, but I didn't). I was disappointed! But, I decided that I shouldn't give up. Maybe I should try and make them again... since there's a lot of cornmeal left :D

Blueberry and Banana Muffins

My mom brought some bananas the other day. She wanted me to make some muffins for giveaways!  You see, one thing I love about muffins was that they were really, really easy to make. I don't need to top them with icings too. Anyway, I was bored with combining chocolate chips and raisins into my muffins, and I thought I need something new in them. So, I thought of blueberries! And my mother do love blueberries! It's perfect!

Blueberries and Banana Muffins

2 cups Flour

2 tsp Baking Powder

1 cup Sugar

1/3 cup Melted Butter/Oil

2# Bananas (Medium sized)

1 tsp Vanilla

1 cup Blueberries

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius, and line tray with muffin cup.

2. Combine all dry ingredients, and sift together with wire whisk.

3. Combine all wet ingredients in another bowl.

4. Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients.

5. Fold in blueberries.

6. Bake muffins for 20 minutes.

7. Serve warm.

Muffin Test

I made myself some vanilla muffins yesterday. I wanted to test the oven for various size of muffins. I've always bake them in large cup. I need to try baking them on the medium and small cup. And of course, I need to try a few more muffin recipes and find the one that I really like. Well, if you had any good muffin recipe, please suggest me some :D

I sprinkled some of them with chocolate chip on the medium sized muffins. And they turned out really great! I just can't resist the chocolate chip.

Some of the small sized muffins were swirled with raspberry jam. They didn't look as great as I thought it would. I probably swirled in too many jam. The taste was good though..

I'm going Bananas!

My aunts gave us lots of bananas when we visited her in JB. Well, I think that there were about 3 kilos of bananas. My mom thought that it would be better to give away those bananas to our neighbors and friends. After all, we couldn't possibly eat them all! So, she asked me to use those bananas, and turn them into these delicious looking muffins! I made three different types of muffins: -

Raisins and Banana Muffins!

Chocolate Chips and Banana Muffins (My favorite!)

Chocolate Banana Muffins! I cut the bananas into cube, and sprinkle them on top.

All muffins were given away to neighbors, family and friends! They loved it of course!