Serve with extra grated cheese and a generous spread of cream cheese or fresh farm butter.
Super Muffins
Ingredients
- Muffin mix:
- 200 g Eskort Streaky Bacon
- 750 ml flour
- 375 ml castor sugar
- 45 ml baking powder
- 5 ml salt
- 3 eggs
- 250 ml oil
- 250 ml buttermilk
- Muffin fillings:
- Salted dark chocolate and banana
- 85 ml cocoa powder
- 250 ml dark chocolate chopped
- 2 ripe bananas
- 15 ml coarse salt
- Apple crumble & peanut butter
- 2 Granny Smith apples, grated
- 65 ml peanut butter
- 65 ml butter
- 65 ml desiccated coconut
- 65 ml flour
- Berry and white chocolate
- 250 ml mixed frozen berries
- 125 ml white chocolate
- 125 ml caster sugar
- Avo, leek and Parmesan
- 1 large avocado
- 250 ml thinly sliced leeks
- 250 ml Parmesan cheese
- 5 ml black pepper
- To Serve
- extra grated cheese
- cream cheese to spread
- fresh farm butter
Method
- Muffin:
- Preheat the oven to 180° C.
- Line a muffin pan with grease-proof muffin cases.
- Slice bacon into small bite-sized pieces and fry in a moderately heated pan until crispy.
- Remove rendered fat from the pan and allow bacon to cool.
- Add the muffin ingredients and bacon to a mixing bowl and mix until well combined and a smooth batter forms.
- Salted dark chocolate and banana:
- Mash bananas with a fork.
- Add mashed bananas, cocoa powder, salt and chocolate chips to the muffin mixture.
- Mix until all the ingredients are well combined and a smooth batter forms.
- Half fill the lined muffin pans and bake for approximately 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven to cool.
- Apple crumble and Peanut butter:
- Grate the apples (skin on).
- In a mixing bowl add the grated apples, peanut butter, flour, coconut and butter.
- Rub the ingredients between the palms of your hands until crumbled.
- Spoon the premixed muffin batter into the muffin cups and top with 30 ml of crumble mixture.
- Bake for 15 – 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven to cool.
- Mixed berry and white chocolate:
- In a mixing bowl, add frozen mixed berries and sprinkle with castor sugar.
- Defrost the berries.
- Finely chop white chocolate and add to the berries.
- Swirl the berry mixture through the muffin batter and spoon into the muffin cups.
- Bake for 15 – 20 minutes.
- Avo, leek and Parmesan cheese:
- In a small bowl, mash the avo with a fork.
- Finely grate the Parmesan cheese and thinly slice the leeks.
- Add the avo, Parmesan, leeks and black pepper to the batter and spoon into muffin cups.
- Bake for 15 – 20 minutes.
