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Italian Herb Muffins

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Whenever I make soup for dinner I also try to make a muffin or a bread to go with it.  Soup just doesn’t seem filling enough as a meal by itself for me.   I love to make muffins because they’re so easy and leftovers can be eaten frozen and/or eaten for breakfast.  These are an easy to make, savory muffin.  As the Mr. noted, they have an almost biscuit-like consistency.  The kids were surprisingly not big fans of these muffins.  However, I think that these muffins made a nice side to have with our soup.

Italian Herb Muffins
Recipe slightly adapted from One Perfect Bite
Yield:  10-12 muffins

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 Tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 Tbsp. Penzey’s Pasta sprinkle
3 tsps. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.  Grease a 12 cup muffin tin (or you can use cupcake liners).

2. Combine flour through salt in a large bowl.  In another bowl combine the egg, milk and vegetable oil.  Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until combined.

3.  Fill muffin cups 3/4 full and bake in oven for 15-20 minutes until toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.  Cool for 5 – 1o minutes in the pan and then take the muffins out and let them continue to cool on a wire rack.

 

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Carrot Cake Muffins

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Today is National Carrot Cake Day!  To celebrate, I am sharing some carrot cake muffins.  The Mr. says muffins are an excuse to eat cake for breakfast.  Well, so be it!  They are easy to make and easy to eat!  I have not had great success with carrots.  The kids constantly remind me of my big carrot soup fail from several years ago.  On rare occasions the kids will snack on carrot sticks with salad dressing.  For my daughter, who will eat just about anything, carrots rank high up on her least favorite vegetables list.  However,  they didn’t seem to mind eating these carrot cake muffins!  These were moist and flavorful.  I did not make the icing that the original recipe had called for, because then I’d have to call it a cupcake!  I did make a cinnamon sugar topping for the muffins but only sprinkled it on half of them, as seen in the picture.  I’m glad that I only sugared half of the muffins, as they were great without, and definitely did not need the extra sugar!

Carrot Cake Muffins
Recipe adapted from Chocolate, Chocolate and More Chocolate

Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs, beaten
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups shredded carrot

Optional:  Cinnamon Sugar Topping
Combine 2 Tbsp. sugar and 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon.

Directions:
1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Grease or paper line 12 cup muffin tin.  In a large bowl combine flour through sugar.  Add in eggs, oil and vanilla, stirring until combined.  Fold in shredded carrots.  Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar topping, if desired.

2.  Fill muffin cups with 2/3 cup of batter.   Bake in pre-heated oven for 22-25 minutes (insert toothpick into the center of a muffin to check for doneness).   Let muffins cool in the pan for 10 minutes and then remove and place on cooling racks.

 

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