Adorable small portioned muffins with any filling turned out to be very loved not only by children, but also by adults. Consider why muffins with cherries deserve such love.
Recipe content:
- Cherry muffins - cooking secrets
- Cherry muffins: a classic recipe
- Frozen Cherry Muffins
- Muffins with fresh cherries
- Video recipes
Muffins are adorable muffins that captivate with their small size and beautiful appearance. The miniature baked goods are cute and easy to prepare with the common ingredients available. Most often, recipes are found on sour cream, which is available in almost every refrigerator.
Unlike the usual muffins, muffins are stuffed with a variety of additions, both sweet and, on the contrary, hearty salty. For example, small and neat muffins with sausage, ham, cheese, herbs are very relevant. Well, you can give absolutely any "sweet" muffins. Today we have a recipe with cherries.
Cherry muffins - cooking secrets
Delicious muffins, which are often bought in confectionery departments, can be prepared at home on your own. To do this, you should know some of the subtleties of cooking, so that the miniature pastries not only smooth out cute, but also turn out to be very tasty.
- Basically, the dough is kneaded with sour cream. This product is used with a fat content of at least 20%. Diet sour cream will not make an airy and light dough. Also, kefir, yogurt, milk are used with no less success. Light, low-calorie muffins are prepared on curd dough with oatmeal.
- It is enough to stir the eggs with a whisk; you do not need to beat them into a strong foam.
- Flour is always mixed with bulk ingredients (baking powder, cocoa) and only then is combined with a liquid mass.
- Powdered baking powder is mixed with flour, and baking soda is quenched with acid and added to the dough at the end of the batch, unless otherwise prescribed by the recipe.
- Oil, optional. It does soften the baked goods, though, and prevent them from hardening. It is used vegetable or creamy.
- Dry and liquid components are always mixed separately, and only then are combined together. This is what makes the muffins a highlight.
- Muffins are baked in special metal or silicone molds, which are filled with dough up to 2/3 of the volume. If the molds are paper, then they are not removed from the finished products.
- The top of the muffins is decorated with glaze, covered with mastic, poured over with chocolate, etc.
- To enhance the taste, vanilla, cocoa, zest and other aromatic additives are added to muffins.
- Muffin cherries can be fresh, dried, or frozen. The latter is pre-thawed. Berries are used whole or cut into pieces, put into the dough while kneading or laid out in shapes.
- Muffins are placed exclusively in a hot oven. It takes no more than half an hour to bake. The baking time depends on the size of the portion tins.
- Ready baked goods are taken out of the molds only after cooling.
Cherry muffins: a classic recipe
Cherry muffins are very similar to muffins, but they are significantly more tender and contain less fat. Such pastries will not leave anyone indifferent, and it is very easy to prepare it even for an inexperienced housewife.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 297 kcal.
- Servings - 10
- Cooking time - 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Flour - 150 g
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Sugar - 100 g
- Baking powder - 0.5 tsp
- Butter - 125 g
- Cherries - 175 g
- Milk - 2 tablespoons
- Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet
Step by step cooking:
- Combine butter at room temperature with sugar and beat with a mixer until white.
- Beat in the eggs, pour in the milk and continue whisking the food.
- Combine flour with baking powder and sift through a fine sieve to the liquid components. Beat with a mixer.
- Put the cherries in a colander to drain the excess juice, then add them to the dough and gently stir in.
- Grease the molds with butter and spoon out the dough with a tablespoon. Make sure there are cherries in every cupcake.
- Heat the oven to 180 ° C and bake the muffins for half an hour on the middle level of the roasting pan.
Frozen Cherry Muffins
When the snow is spinning outside the window, a blizzard is blowing and the wind is blowing, bake muffins with cherries and then it will immediately become warmer and more comfortable. To do this, in the summer season, prepare berries for future use so that they can be used for a variety of baked goods throughout the year.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 200 g
- Baking powder - 2 tsp
- Sugar - 0.75 g
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Milk - 175 ml.
- Butter - 125 g
- Cherries - 175 g
Step by step cooking:
- Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl.
- Melt the butter and cool to room temperature.
- Combine it with eggs and milk. Stir.
- Combine the liquid components with dry ingredients and mix until smooth.
- Defrost the cherries naturally, put in a sieve and leave for half an hour to drain the juice. Do not pour it out, but use it to soak baked goods, boil compote, or other purposes.
- Grind the berries with flour and add to the dough.
- Stir and spread the dough evenly over silicone or iron tins, greased with butter.
- Preheat the oven to 190 degrees and send the muffins to bake for 25 minutes.
Muffins with fresh cherries
Fresh cherries are the easiest to bake desserts. This is the most classic and simple way of making muffins, which can be confidently considered the most versatile.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 380-400 g
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Baking powder - 1 tsp
- Soda - 0.5 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Salt - a pinch
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Butter (melted) - 3 tablespoons
- Sour cream - 1, 5 tbsp.
- Vanilla extract - 1 tablespoon
- Pitted cherries - 1 tbsp
Step by step cooking:
- Sift flour with baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon through a fine sieve, stir and set aside.
- Pour eggs into another bowl, add sugar, melted butter, sour cream and vanilla extract. Beat everything well with a mixer.
- Add the liquid base to the flour mixture and quickly knead the dough.
- Wash the cherries, remove the seeds and gently stir into the dough.
- Grease the molds with butter and spread the dough over them.
- Preheat oven to 175 ° C and bake muffins for 20-30 minutes, depending on the size of the molds.
- Cool the finished muffins in the tins, then remove and garnish with powdered sugar.
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