My Very Own Muffin Recipe

I wanted to create a new refreshing recipe for an all-time favourite delicacy, the muffin. So I figured a way to combine two of my most favourite ingredients; walnut and strawberries. The techniques are simple and the result is spectacular. The feeling of seeing the muffins baked to perfection is truly exciting. Sometimes, as the baker, you don't really want to fulfil your greedy taste buds,but that itching feeling, the desire of wanting to see the end result. So,I must say, I was a little overwhelmed with how beautiful my muffins,of my own recipe turned out to be.

Here is the recipe for my Strawberry Walnut Muffins (12-16 servings)
Ingredients:

 400 g all-purpose-flour
200 g castour sugar
24 g baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
280 ml milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
160 g butter(in room temperature)
100 g of ground walnut
200 g strawberries cut in cubes
Strawberry jam to taste

The easy steps are:

1. Pre-het the oven at 180 ^oC.
2. Mix the dry and wet ingredients in two separate bowls,except for the butter. This way, you will save more time and space.
3. Firstly, beat the butter. If you have an electronic mixer, be sure to use the whisk. Beat from slow to medium speed than fast until butter becomes fluffy.
4. Then you add the wet ingredient mixture that contains eggs, milk and the vanilla extract. Always beat the batter at low speed first as you add new ingredients. This will allow the items to be in contact before becoming fully incorporated at medium or high speed.
5. Then, you add the dry ingredients-flour,castour sugar,baking powder and salt. And finally, just stir in the walnuts and strawberries.
6. Spread an ample amount of butter to grease the muffin tray before putting the paper cups.
7. Put a half tablespoonful of the muffin batter into every cup. Than add one teaspoonful of  strawberry jam before adding more of the batter until the cup is about 3/4 full. If you wish to have a slightly flattened muffin,you can just put the batter to about 1/2 of the cup. Just before you bake them, add a swirl of jam at the top of the muffin batter.
8. Bake the  muffins for 20 minutes.You can basically just use the basic muffin recipe you may have and then just add any ingredient you wish to add in a muffin. Another 'magical' combo would be blueberry and banana. So go ahead and try it! 
   

Yours truly,

A.T