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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 (54g) Recipe makes 12 servings The following items or measurements are not included below: fruit
Calories 148
Calories from Fat 52		(35%)
Amount Per Serving		%DV
	Total Fat 5.8g	9%
	Saturated Fat 1.2g	6%
	Monounsaturated Fat 1.6g
	Polyunsaturated Fat 2.6g
	Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 20mg		6%
Sodium 173mg		7%
Potassium 53mg		1%
Total Carbohydrate 21.4g		7%
	Dietary Fiber 0.4g	1%
	Sugars 8.4g
Protein 2.8g		5%
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Recipe #128689 | 35 min | 15 min prep | add private note

⁽¹⁸⁾ RATE IT NOW Print Recipe

By: Tornado Ali
Jul 5, 2005

This basic muffin recipe can make hundreds of different types of muffins,just by adding your choice of additions! Easy to memorize, you too can be called "The Muffin Queen" by your friends like I am! Comes from "The Tightwad Gazette."

SERVES 12 (change servings and units)

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk (or other liquid, such as drained pineapple juice, orange juice, etc...)
1/4 cup oil or oil substitute
1 egg
1 1/2 cups fruit, additions (or vegetable, such as 1 cup mashed banana and 1/2 cup chopped walnuts)
spices, of your choice

Directions

1
Heat oven to 400.
2
Grease 12 muffin cups, or 24 mini muffin cups.
3
Combine dry ingredients, including dry additions (like nuts, chocolate chips, etc -- ) and spices.
4
Combine wet ingredients, including wet additions (like banana, berries, pineapple, etc -- ).
5
Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling about 2/3 full (perfectly ok if you have leftover batter to fill cups to top.).
6
Bake for 18-20 minutes.
7
NOTES:.
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To make non-sweet muffins, such as bacon and cheddar, just cut back on the sugar to 1 tablespoon. You can make your own "jiffy" corn muffins by substituting 1/2 cup corn meal for 1/2 cup of the flour, and using 2 tablespoons of sugar. Substitute peanut butter for the oil to give your muffins a peanutty taste (I make Elvis Muffins by using 2 mashed bananas, 1/2 cup chopped peanuts and then peanut butter for the oil.).
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If your additions are very wet (such as crushed pineapple) then use up to 1/2 cup more flour, to equal up to 2 cups total flour.
10
Play around with this! It's easy and quick!

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From: Adam Wick

On Jul 13, 2008

My friend Sara and I made these with blueberries that we picked ourselves yesterday, and Sara's mom said that they were the best blueberry muffins that she'd ever had in her life! We added an extra egg and about 3/8 of a cup of whole wheat flour to give the muffins more substance (as per my mother's instructions). Thanks for the great recipe, Ali!

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From: Queen of Harts

On May 18, 2008

I made mine with frozen blueberries. They started to melt as I mixed, so my muffins turned a weird blue color! They came out tasting a little flour-y, a bit heavy. I'm going to try again, but will reduce the flour and see what I come out with.

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From: Chef #387942

On Nov 21, 2006

I cant believe how fantastic and simple these muffins are. I made up the mixture then halved it in to two bowls and added 1/2cup choc chips to one and 1 mashed banana to the other. I used the mini muffin tin and baked for 10 minutes. Everyone loved them. I will be making these again and often. Cant wait to try a savory muffin.

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From: lizbits

On Jul 22, 2007

These were good. I made blueberry muffins, with fresh blueberries, a pinch of cinnamon, and a struesel topping, and chocolate muffins with 3/4 c flour, 3/4 c cocoa powder, 1 c sugar, and chocolate chunks. I made some of the corn muffins with cheddar, bacon, jalepenos, and chiles to go with our chili dinner that night, too. So yummy! All the recipes were very tasty, and I love that I will be able to try different things with them! Next time I pick a bag of overripe bananas on sale I will make some banana nut, and as soon as I am overrun with zucchini, gues what? LOL. Thanks so much for posting!

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