Muffins8th Grade

Home & Careers

Mrs. Bower

What is a Quick Bread?

• Uses baking soda/powder for leavening.

• Baked as soon as its mixed – no rising time.

Muffin Method

• A way of mixing batters for quick breads, cookies and cakes.

Step 1 – Bowl 1:

Dry Ingredients

Step 2 – Bowl 2:

Wet Ingredients

Step 3:

Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients, mix only until moistened. Your batter will still look lumpy.

***Over mixing causes peaked top and tunnels inside.

Pan Preparations

• Muffin liners

• Grease

• Grease/flour

Doneness Tests

• Color-golden brown

• Pulled slightly away from sides of pan

• Tooth pick test

• Lightly touch center – it should bounce back

Muffin Characteristics

• Rounded, bumpy top – no peaks

• Golden brown

• No tunnels

• Tender texture

Good Muffin

Bad Muffin

Muffin Evaluation