Muffins

Ingredients

• 200 g softened butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
• 200 g sugar
• 3 or 4 eggs
• 200 g flour mixed with baking powder.

Recipe

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Line the muffin pans with paper liners.

In a mixer, cream together the butter, vanilla/vanilla sugar, and sugar.

Add the eggs—one at a time*.

Gradually add the flour, stirring constantly.

If the batter seems too thick, add a little milk.

*You can beat the egg whites first and add them gradually to the batter—this will result in a lighter texture for the finished cookies. However, this makes it more difficult when baking in large batches.

Fill the paper liners 1/3 full with a teaspoon.

Bake in the oven for about 15–20 minutes.

Icing

STIFF ICING.

To make stiff frosting, you’ll need:

• 200g butter
• 400 g powdered sugar
• a few tablespoons of milk

Recipe:

• Beat the butter until soft
• Add half the powdered sugar and beat until combined
• Add the rest of the powdered sugar and beat until combined
• If the mixture is too stiff, add a small amount of milk
• To make colored icing, add the appropriate amount of food coloring.

REGULAR ICING.

To make plain frosting, you’ll need:

• 200g powdered sugar
• A few tablespoons of warm water

Instructions:

• Mix the ingredients until smooth.
• Add more powdered sugar or water if needed

If you want to flavor the frosting, you can use the following options:

• Replace the water (or part of the water) with lemon juice
• Add a teaspoon of vanilla extract or another flavoring.

Decoration

Decorate the muffins with whatever you have on hand:

• fruit
• almonds or coconut
• colored candies
• multicolored frosting
• sprinkles, little roses, edible leaves, etc.

Muffin Specials

During the YS meeting. As part of team-building and creative activities.

You can bake muffins together with the group, or you can bring ready-made muffins and decorate them together with the group.

A congregation event where YS can contribute by bringing homemade muffins.

Muffins can be part of a fundraising campaign for a selected YS project.

The muffins can be used as a creative invitation to a meeting organized by the church or a YS group.

Muffin Day

March 30 is World Muffin Day.