Muff Munching

Me and my big cake hole, or fingers.

What was intended as my humorous slant on all the wonderful recipes of the interweb, that - as a cooking simpleton - I skip over, ended up with me guilting myself into talking up, and taking up a challenge.

See I posted about my fairy cake protocol, an hilarious method statement for the sum total of the baking that we get up to here.

Except it was not so funny for some.

English Mum, a food writer no less, was appalled at my used of sachets. So much so she decided the blogging world needed an equal and opposite post, in the form of a step-by-step vanilla muffin guide.

Because I am an idiot I felt, writing the post, I should actually ditch the packs, and simply stock the standard ingredients for cakes, I suggested that I would bake said muffins, if English Mum would actually be so kind to put together the post.

Voilà

And wouldn't you know it, another fool reluctant baker, suggested we have a 'muffin-off'.

So we agreed to expose our muffins to the world wide web today, for judging by the foodie English Mum.


Here are most of the consumables and apparatus needed to make quality vanilla muffins.




For reference, here are my normal weapons of choice.



The dry ingredients - sifted.



All mixed together and chocolate chips added.



In the oven.

Out of the oven.

Decorated.

Done.

They did taste delicious, and I actually have five children and two other adults that would testify to that. 

I think I shall continue with baking from scratch, so it is a score on that front, although I shall probably drop the unnecessary items from this recipe, keep it simple.

Don't judge me, except you English Mum of course, you need to go and check out the delights of Laura's Muffins at Are We Nearly There Yet Mummy?

Now anyone else want to take up a baking challenge?

The world needs a reluctant bakers meme like no other.