Moosewood Muffin Madness

Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home's Muffin Madness

This is probably one of the easiest muffin recipes I've ever made. It was very little mess in the kitchen and would be a perfect quick home made treat for someone with kids or very little time.

-- Basic Wet Ingredients --
2 large eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3/4 - 1 cup brown sugar (I accidentally omitted this ingredient & the muffins were great)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (I usually double the vanilla just because its so good)

-- Basic Dry Ingredients --
2 cup unbleached flour (I use half whole wheat)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Choose one of the following combos to add to basic ingredients (the above is NOT a plain muffin recipe, but the base for the following)

Apple muffins: Add 2 cups of grated apple and 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel to wet ingredients and 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon to dry ingredients.

Banana muffins: Add 1 1/2 cups of mashed banana to wet ingredients and 1/2 cup of chocolate chips to batter. Sprinkle more chips on the muffin tops before baking. (You can also add 1/2 tsp. of orange zest to batter for an extra little something)

Blueberry - lemon muffins: Add 1 1/2 cups of blueberries and 1 tablespoon of grated lemon peel to wet ingredients.

Zucchini muffins: Add 2 cups of grated zucchini to wet ingredients and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon of ground cardamom to the dry ingredients. Fold in 1/2 cup of raisins or currants and 3/4 cup of chopped nuts to batter.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine wet ingredients, combine dry ingredients. Add two mixtures together and take care not to overmix. Spoon batter into oiled standard muffins tins and bake for 15-22 min. for regular size muffins, 8-10 min. for mini-muffins.