Pancakes

Please don't question why I love making pancakes so much :)

Little Bun

It has been quite awhile since the last time of making homemade bread, luckily I haven't forgotten the skill of breaking making yet. However, kneading dough is quite tedious work and my arms are so weak and sore.

Spiced Banana Muffin

You would never get tired of banana muffin, like seriously, never ever! They are just simply delicious and can make endless variation. This time, added some spices to give it an extra kick.

Spiced Banana Muffin Recipe
(make 6 medium sized muffin)
90g flour
35g brown sugar
25g sugar
1 1/2tsp baking powder
1tsp cinnamon
1/4tsp nutmeg
1egg
1ripe big banana , mashed
1/4cup oil
1/4cup milk
Crushed corn flakes for topping (optional)
1) preheat oven to 350F. Mix together dry and wet ingredients in two separate bowls. Add the wet to the dry and stir until they just combined.
2) pour batter into baking cups, top with the crushed cereal, bake for 20-25mins.
Notes:
*mine took exactly 20mins.
*muffin was good in terms of the texture but it was a bit bitter in taste since I accidentally put 1/2tsp nutmeg instead of 1/4tsp -.- too careless .. So don't be dumb as me and make stupid mistakes!:(
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Banana muffin

When I flipped through my recipe collection, here I found, one of the greatest muffin recipe which results in a mouth watering banana muffin:) I'm not being exaggerated or over reacting here, this is true, this is the banana muffin everyone is looking for! It's moist and fluffy, with a great amount of banana flavor, jumbo size, sugar coated top, what else could you say for this one little amazing muffin?
Banana Muffin Recipe
(make 6jumbo muffins):
1/3cup butter, soften in room temp.
1/2cup packed brown sugar
1/4cup white sugar (plus extra for toppings)
1egg
1tsp vanilla
1/4cup buttermilk (or sour milk)
1/2cup banana puree (mashed about 1large banana)
1 1/4cup flour
1tsp baking powder
1/4tsp salt
1/4tsp baking soda
1/8tsp ground cinnamon

1) Line a muffin tin with 6paper cups, preheat oven to 475F!!!
2) by using the creaming method, beat together butter and both sugars until light and creamy. Add in egg and vanilla, beat until combined. Then add in the milk and banana purée, just stir until everything corporate.
3) in a separate bowl, mix together the flour, Bp, bs, salt and cinnamon. Then add to the wet mixture and stir until just combined. (may add nuts/chocolate chips /dry fruits according to your personal preference )
4) pour batter into the muffin cups, fill them to the top, pls :) sprinkle sugar and pop them into the oven. Bake at 475F for 10mins, then reduce temp to 350F and continue to bake for another 10mins. Watch your muffin carefully, don't let them to get burnt.

Blueberry muffin

I rarely bake blueberry muffin since the blueberries are always gone before i got a chance to use them for muffins. However, no more finishing berries this time, i tried my best to save some berries to try this amazing recipe which issued by the cook illustrated. This muffin has gone so wrong! I mean the method of making it, of course it still tastes amazing :) everyone have heard of the Cook Illustrated best blueberry muffin, right?! If not, then go check it out !! I was being a careless, I scanned the recipe for a few times, and thought that I already put down everything in my head. But the true is no, I didn't read the method part carefully, and guess what? Here are all the stupid Mistakes that I made :
1) I mixed together the sugar with the flour, when I was supposed to beat it with the eggs!!
2) not enough blueberry to make the jam topping, so I replaced it with store bought strawberry jam
3) used all melted butter since I didn't realize there's oil on the ingredient list
4) added vinegar to the melted butter, and it cured -.-
5) used milk cas ran out of buttermilk

Asian Style- red bean pancake

Traditional Banana Pancake got a little twist with additional Asian flavor! Do you notice Asian, or particularly Japanese like having red beans in their meal a lot? They have red bean Mochi, the one that doramon loves to eat (lol, forgot what it's called..something yaki i believe), ice-cream..etc. So, as my mom cooked some sweetened red bean dessert (紅豆沙)last night and got a bit leftover, why don't I find a way to use it up ?:0 great! I could mix it in my pancake batter!! (I'm so proud of myself.lol xD) The pancake actually turned out amazing and I couldn't get enough ;( by the way, I perfect to eat it with honey, it seems more match with the red bean taste than using maple syrup..:x if you don't want to cook the red bean by yourself, because I would say it is quite time consuming, you may just buy the store bought one, I would say they will work just fine:D

Banana pancake

Recipe:
1/2cup flour
1/2tsp baking powder
1/4tsp baking soda
Pinch of salt
1/2cup milk
1tbsp flaxseed plus 2tbsp water
3/4banana, mashed
1/4banana, sliced for topping