Cocktail Cheese Muffins Food

MEDITERRANEAN SAVOURY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F (160°C/320°F fan).
• Brush a 12 hole standard muffin tin generously with butter
• Whisk Dry ingredients in a bowl.
• Whisk Wet ingredients in a separate bowl.
• Pour Wet into the Dry ingredients bowl. Mix 8 times.
• Add cheese, feta, sun dried tomato, capsicum, olives and green onion. Mix as few times as possible just to incorporate remaining bits of flour - no more than 7 big stirs (secret to soft muffs).
• Divide between 12 holes in muffin in (I use an ice cream scooper). Batter should be thick and fill muffin tin slightly mounded (see video)
• Bake for 25 minutes or until the muffins are golden and crusty and spring back when touched in the centre.
• Cool for 10 minutes, then transfer to cooling rack. Serve warm for optimum experience!

SAVOURY CHEESE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180C/350F (standard) or 160C/320F (fan).
• Place butter and garlic in a microwave proof bowl and melt in 30 second bursts. Mix.
• Brush a 12 hole standard muffin tin generously with butter, being sure to slather with some garlic. Reserve some butter to brush tops.
• Whisk Dry ingredients in a bowl.
• Whisk Wet ingredients in a separate bowl.
• Pour Wet into the Dry ingredients bowl. Mix 8 times. Add cheese, mix as few times as possible just to incorporate remaining bits of flour - no more than 7 big stirs (secret to soft muffs).
• Divide between 11 holes in muffin in (I use an ice cream scooper). Batter should be thick and fill muffin tin to top (if in ball shape due to scooper, leave as is). See video.
• Bake for 22 - 25 minutes or until the muffins are golden and crusty and spring back when touched in the centre.
• Remove onto cooling rack, brush with remaining butter (microwave again if needed) and cool slightly before getting stuck into them!

CHEDDAR CHEESE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 12 large muffin cups.
• Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda together in a large mixing bowl; stir Cheddar cheese into the flour mixture. Pour yogurt, eggs, and butter over the flour mixture; stir until the dry ingredients are just moistened. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the tops just start to lightly brown, 18 to 20 minutes.

COCKTAIL CHEESE & CHIVE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
• Add Cheddar cheese, and cook 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Stir in flour, sour cream, and chives.
• Spoon batter into ungreased miniature (1 3/4-inch) muffin pans, filling two-thirds full.
• Bake in 375 degree F oven for 20 to 22 minutes.
• Remove muffins from pans immediately.
• Yield: 4 dozen muffins.

COCKTAIL CHEESE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• In bowl melt butter in microwave. Remove and add cheese. Stir well and let cool 2 minutes. Add chives (fresh chives really make a difference here) and sour cream, stirring after each addition. Add flour, blending thoroughly.
• Fill ungreased small-size muffin tins almost full. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until golden.
• Garlic Variation:.
• Add the following ingredients to the above ingredients for a garlic cheese muffin.
• Cayenne pepper to taste.
• 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard.
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder.

TRIPLE CHEESE & ONION MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and oil a 12-hole muffin tin. Whisk the oil, egg and buttermilk. In a mixing bowl, mix the flour, 1 tsp salt and mustard powder, then stir in the cheddar, spring onions, chives and half the Parmesan.
• Use a large spoon to gently fold the wet ingredients into the dry - don't overmix, just lightly combine. With the final few folds, mix in the soft cheese cubes. Spoon the mixture between the holes in the tin (they will be quite full), scatter with the remaining Parmesan and bake for 25 mins.

CHEDDAR CHEESE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, combine milk, melted butter, egg& cayenne.
• In a second bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, sugar& salt.
• Stir in cheese.
• Add flour mixture to milk mixture and stir batter until it is just combined.
• The batter should be lumpy.
• Spoon the batter into muffin tins (buttered or lined) filling each about 2/3 full.
• Bake 20- 25 minutes.

BEER & CHEESE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Measure out 2/3 cup beer-drink rest.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Spray 6 muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray.
• Spoon flour into measuring cup& level off.
• Combine flour, cheese, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix well.
• Add beer and egg, and stir into dry mixture until just moistened.
• Divide evenly into muffin cups (about 3/4 full).
• Bake 17-22 minutes, or until golden brown and toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
• Best served warm-- great with chili or tortilla soup.