Southern Living Butter Muffins Food

HOT BUTTERED RUM MUFFINS

Steps:

• Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
• Add 1/2 cup sugar, beating well.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
• Combine flour and next 4 ingredients.
• Combine milk and 3 tablespoons rum.
• Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Beat at low speed until blended after each addition.
• Spoon into greased muffin pans, filling 3/4 full.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until golden.
• Remove from pans immediately; place on wire racks.
• Combine remaining 2 tablespoons rum and 3 tablespoons sugar in a small saucepan; cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves.
• Brush over warm muffins.

SOUTHERN LIVING BUTTER MUFFINS

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350. Stir all ingredients together in a large bowl until just blended (if you're going to add chocolate chips or fruit this would be the time). Spoon into lightly greased muffin tin. Bake 25 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool in pan a few minutes before turning out to complete cooling.

VANILLA CRUMB CAKES / MUFFINS - SOUTHERN LIVING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Grease 4 cups in a jumbo muffin pan. Fill the 2 empty cups halfway with water.
• In a large bowl stir together sugars. Add flour and nutmeg, whisking until blended. Cut butter into flour/sugar mixture with a fork until crumbly. Remove and reserve 1/2 cup crumb mixture for topping.
• Combine buttermilk, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Whisk in egg. Pour over the crumb mixture remaining in large bowl. Stir with a fork until dry ingredients are moistened.
• Spoon batter evenly into a greased jumbo muffin pan, filling 4 muffins with batter. Sprinkle reserved crumb mixture evenly over batter, pressing lightly into batter.
• Bake 350 for 28 to 30 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, remove cakes from pan, and let cool completely on wire rack. Drizzle with Vanilla Glaze.
• Vanilla Glaze: Whisk all ingredients until smooth. Yield 1/4 cup.

REFRIGERATOR BUTTERMILK BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In very large bowl, combine bran and bran cereal.
• Add boiling water, stir to moisten and let stand 10 minutes. Add buttermilk.
• In another very large bowl, cream shortening with sugars.
• Beat in eggs one at a time.
• Add bran mixture to creamed mixture, stirring until blended.
• Mix together flour, soda and salt; add raisins.
• Add to bran mixture, stirring until evenly mixed.
• Cover tightly with foil and refrigerate at least 24 hours.
• To make muffins, spoon batter into muffin tins lined with paper baking cups, filling about 3/4 full.
• Bake in 375 oven for 20-25 minutes.
• Make as many muffins as you wish, then return remaining batter to refrigerator.
• Batter will thicken considerably, but don't stir it before spooning it out.
• Recipe makes about 5 dozen muffins; it may be halved successfully.
• Baked muffins freeze well.