Haha, I know my titles are terrible...but they are accurate! A few weeks ago I was on Pinterest and occassionally I see some really delicious things show up in my main feed. I just so happened to see some pastry dishes which got me thinking: Can you make muffins with strawberries? I'm no chef, so I don't know these things. But I was curious so did a Pinterest search. And lo'! You can! I found one for coffee cake strawberry muffins. Seeing as how I'd frozen some strawberries from a farmer's market outting earlier this month I decided to give it a go. :)
This was my batter. I used my mom's KitchenAid stand mixer for the first time. Let me just say it made things go faster! (It took me 3 hours to make these darn muffins though...ugh). I am a VERY slow baker. Actual prep time is something like 10 minutes with 30 minutes being the total time for these muffins. I doubled the recipe and altered some of the ingredients so this could be why my time was much longer. If you're more experienced it will probably go faster.
Next came chopping up the strawberries. Mine were thawed but still very cold from the freezer. I used A LOT more than what you see here. (About 2 cups worth I think).
I spooned approximately 1 tablespoon worth of batter into each cup. The recipe said it made 18, but that would never last in my house! I actually ended up having extra batter so I had to spoon what was left into loose cups to bake after the first large batch was done. I had 4 extras, plus the 30 I did first. I did go back and spoon extra mix into some of the cups. My muffins never come out evenly...
And here are my finished muffins! They actually look quite close to the photos from the recipe I'd found. And I am told by my brother they're very good too. I'm holding out until after dinner before I try one. But they do smell amazing so that was a hard temptation to fight. :)
I had a few susbtitutions for the recipe. it originally calls for milk and large eggs, but we only had jumbo eggs and I always use soy milk (organic) instead. I think because of that it caused the cook time for these to go from the estimated 18- 20 and spike to be around a half hour.
If you'd like to give the recipe a try you can find it
here.
And if you want to see more delicious recipe ideas check out my
Pinterest Board: Yummy Snacks. I put more than just sweets there!
I pin lots of nifty things I find, lots of handmade but on occasion when I see other things that catch my fancy I pin them too! So be sure to
follow all my boards. :)
Last little thing I wanted to share with you all was the gorgeous snow "storm" we had on Saturday starting in the very early morning. I was still up around 3:30am so I snuck out to bask in the glory of it. I just love how super quiet it is during and just after a fresh snow.
My front yard looked so serene! There weren't any animal tracks to be seen yet and aside from the neighbors front lights being on there was no sign of anyone around. It was truly amazing. :)
I also couldn't help but to snap some photos of the two prominent
trees in our yard. There was at least 4 to 6 inches of cover by the time
I got outside. And it was still snowing and coming down harder while I
was out there. :)
Anyway that's all I wanted to share.
We are also expecting more snow this Monday through Tuesday. We may get
something like 2 feet worth. I honestly can't wait! It just hasn't felt
like winter until the snow came.
If you're going to get hit by the blizzard stay safe and maybe make some muffins while it snows outside.
Have a great week. :)
