Quick Bread Breakfast Muffins

Makes 12 muffins

joanna

ingredients

butter or vegetable oil spray
2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 stick (8 Tbsp) unsalted butter, melted, or 1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs
Add-ins, 1 cup total..
chopped nuts, chocolate chips, blueberries, raisins, dried fruit, coconut, shredded carrots.
Or 1 mashed banana, or 1 Tbsp grated lemon, or orange zest can be added to wet ingredients.
Or 1/2 tsp cinnamon with dry ingredients.

1
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Position one of oven racks in the center.
2
Generously grease the cup of and top of a standard 12-cup muffin tin. If not using paper liners.
3
Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl.
4
In another bowl, whisk together, the milk, melted butter, vanilla, and eggs.
5
Add milk mixture all at once to flour mixture; fold in with a rubber spatula just until dry ingredients are moistened. (Fold in any add-ins at this point)
6
Scoop 1/4 cup batter into each muffin cup.
7
Just before muffins go in oven, cinnamon or sugar can be sprinkled on.
8
Bake 15-20 minutes until muffins are golden and just spring back when you press lightly with your finger.
9
Remove from oven, and let cool on rack 15 minutes before removing muffins.