Five Spice Muffins Food

SPICED OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, stir together oats and buttermilk. Allow to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 400°F and line 22 to 24 muffin cups with paper liners. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg; set aside.
• After oats have finished soaking, stir brown sugar and eggs into the oatmeal/buttermilk mixture. Mix in melted butter and vanilla, and then blend in flour mixture and optional add-ins (if using) until just combined.
• Evenly divide batter between prepared muffin cups. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until tops of muffins are golden brown and toothpick inserted into center of muffin comes out clean. Cool muffins in pan for a few minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack to finish cooling completely.

CHA-CHING! CARROT SPICE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Mix together dry ingredients- flour, soda, powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice.
• Mix together wet ingredients- honey/brown sugar, egg, buttermilk/yogurt, oil, vanilla and the carrots, raisins and nuts.
• Stir the wet and dry ingredients together until just moistened.
• Bake for about 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.

FIVE SPICE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 12 cup and a 6 cup muffin pan.
• In a large bowl, stir together zucchini and boiling water.
• In a separate bowl, mix flour, sugar, sunflower seeds, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, and nutmeg.
• Blend eggs, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract with the zucchini. Stir the zucchini mixture into the flour mixture. Spoon into the prepared muffin pans.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.

SUGAR AND SPICE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 12 muffin cups.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. In a separate bowl, beat together oil, 3/4 cup sugar, egg and milk. Stir egg mixture into flour mixture, just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean.
• While muffins are baking, mix together 3/4 cup white sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. While muffins are still hot, dip tops in melted butter and then in cinnamon sugar mixture.

FIVE-SPICE POWDER

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in blender or coffee grinder.
• Blend until finely ground.
• Store in airtight container.
• Keeps up to 2 months.
• Note: You could"roast" the whole spices a bit for a more intense flavor in a dry frying pan-- Watch closely to prevent spices from burning.

APPLESAUCE SPICE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Prepare muffins:
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 400°F. Grease muffin pan.
• Stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices, and salt in a bowl. Whisk together eggs and brown sugar in a large bowl until combined well, then add butter, a little at a time, whisking until mixture is creamy. Stir in applesauce, then fold in flour mixture until flour is just moistened. Stir in nuts and divide batter among muffin cups.
• Make topping and bake:
• Stir together all topping ingredients and sprinkle on top of muffins. Bake until muffins are puffed and golden, about 20 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack 5 minutes, then remove muffins from pan and cool slightly.

FIVE SPICE DELICATA SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Line a muffin tray with muffin cups, set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine the brown rice flour, baking powder, baking soda, five spice powder blend, coconut sugar and sea salt and whisk to combine. Set aside.
• In a medium bowl, mash the bananas, coconut milk, coconut oil and vanilla extract until combined.
• Mix the wet ingredients into the dry, then fold in the grated delicata squash until evenly distributed.
• Fill the lined muffin trays with the batter, then bake for 20 minutes or until the tops are browned evenly.
• Allow to cool for a few minutes in the pan before transferring the muffins to a cooling tray.
• When fully cooled, frost with the honey butter frosting.