Cupcakes ... Inspired ...
Inspired my Memoir's post, my mum set about reproducing the "best ever made in my baking history ....chhiiiaaannnngggg" muffin. If you've known Mrs Memoir for a while, you would know that she has cooked & baked many great dishes in her time. For her to claim that this is the best she has ever cooked is like saying David Beckham kicked his best banana curling goal winning kick ever. All this means is ... must try.
The whole process was surprisingly quick. All up, it took about 1 hour from start to the muffins coming out of the oven.
All in all, it was a good recipe. Moist and tasty. A couple of things that prevented this from being "chiang", not a fault of the recipe but our implementation. Instead of blueberries, we had used mixed berries ... finding out that we didn't really like the sour taste of these berries didn't help. I don't think all the ingredients were evenly mixed, mine didn't have any white chocolate in it which meant it wasn't sweet enough for my liking. Further proof that all ovens are different, ours were cooked in 20 minutes on 170 degrees C (fan forced).
While the recipe was good ... I reckon Mr. Memoir wasn't talking about the muffins when he said "chiang" to Mrs. Memoir.
[What is the difference between a muffin and a cupcake?]
Labels: Food, Photographs
posted by ~g~ |
6:15 pm
5 Comments:
HAHAHAH ! your post is so FUNNY ! i can't help laughing :)
Did u add the thickened cream? And will you guys bake it again?
I agree that i don't like mixed berries too. Raspberry in there makes it very sour.
Auntie must have not mix it enough ? Perhaps worried that it will overmix?
By the way, the muffins looks really nice with the expert photography skills of yours :)
These are definitely muffins and not cupcakes
Also google tells me the difference
There might be some technical differences that a cook could tell us about, but from the consumer's point of view, the difference seems to be that a cupcake really is like a miniature cake: light in weight, sweet, and often covered with icing and decorations. It tends to be not too tall because it's texture isn't strong enough to allow for a very tall structure. It's always made with white flour as far as I know. A muffin is significantly heavier in texture and also in weight; with its cohesiveness, it can contain fruit, nuts or chocolate chips, which are not common in cupcakes. It is never iced and need not be particularly sweet. It can be made with ingredients as heavy as bran, and can be rather tall and have a large overhanging rim that doesn't threaten to fall off. (The cupcake also has a rim, but it is rather delicate and not too large.)
If you threw a cupcake against the wall, you would hear something of a "poof!" If you threw a muffin, you would hear a "thud!"
Mrs Memoir
Hi Mrs Memoir, yes she did add thickened cream (light variety if that makes any difference). She probably did not mix enough, partly my fault 'cos I kept reminding her not to. She might try again ... hmmm ... how about using apple or pear instead? Photographing it was easy since it was in the afternoon and we had light coming in from the windows. Thanks for the recipe!
Well ~g~ when I said it is "chiang" I meant Both the Muffin and Mrs Memoir. but of course Mrs Memoir is the Chiang-est hehehe.
Have a great week.
Mr Memoir
WHAT HAPPENED TO SIMPLY LIFE???? NO NEWS SINCE JULY??????? KNOCK KNOCK....
Yooo ~g~, time to dust off the cobwebs!!! You haven't stopped taking photos right?? Show us more :)
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