So today we decided to make muffins! I found this recipe here and decided to go with it, although we added a few things (berries, brown sugar topping, and food coloring). I mainly just wanted an easy applesauce recipe but all the ones I could find made double what this one does (yields 12 muffins) and I didn’t want to make two batches. I normally use an oatmeal-applesauce muffin recipe but I’m all out of oats so this is what we tried.
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 large egg, beaten
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup butter, melted
Food coloring
(optional) crystal sugar
(optional) Blueberries/strawberries/raspberries
Directions:
-Heat oven to 375 degrees
-Spray muffin tins with nonstick spray or line with paper cups.
-Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl.
-Mix in beaten eggs, applesauce and melted butter. (by hand, do not need mixer).
-scoop mixture into muffin pans.
-(Optional) Stir in Blueberries
-(Optional) Sprinkle crystal sugar sprinkles on tops of muffins.
-Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Test to see if toothpick comes out clean
I wish I had gotten more pictures while everyone was busy mixing and adding ingredients but we did this in the carpeted living room (so the babies could be right by us and feel like they were part of the action) and I have a food coloring addict that kept trying to sneak off with them every time I looked away! lol!The daycare kids decided that they wanted to use both red AND green food coloring so our batter ended up turning a less than pleasing color, which is when they were dubbed Monster Muffins by daycare kids, but we tried to only mix the green up a little because they wanted to be able to see both colors.
I let the kids scoop it into the muffin pan themselves. They used large spoons and thought it was the greatest thing ever to be doing it themselves! It’d got a bit messy but it all managed to stay on the pan rather than the floor (phew!!) or even the towel we had put over the table.
Tada! The monster muffins are complete!!
We didn’t have any crystal sugar so I let the kids sprinkle brown sugar on top, we also didn’t add the salt that the recipe called for. We cooked ours right at 20 minutes, they seemed a little doughy so I did leave them in an extra 3 minutes or so but who knows how accurate my oven temp is.
I’m by no means a cook but I try to do a cooking activity with the kids at least once a week, I’m always looking for good websites with cooking projects for kids so if you know any or have any good recipes please share! 🙂