Corn Muffin

After having lunch with Corrine and Rachel last week at Kenny Rogers, I was inspired to bake some corn muffins for a while now. And today I finally got down to baking them. Well the truth is, these muffins does not last anywhere like the Kenny Rogers corn muffins unfortunately. They taste like muffins, with corn in them. Its not to say that they taste horrible. In fact they are moist on the inside and I could actually taste honey in the muffins and they are not too sweet.

So for the past few weeks I have been working and swimming and meeting up with friends.





I was watching MTV today and they were playing hits from the 80s and 90s. ( Men I feel old) I paused to watch the music video by Alanis Morissette, "Hand in my Pocket". The line in the lyrics actually hit me.

"I'm lost but I am hopeful baby."



"I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm worthless
I'm here but I'm really gone
I'm wrong and I'm sorry baby."



"what it all comes down to
Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving the peace sign."



When I had my first corn muffin, I felt like my muffin. Its tasty, but no where near my expectation. I can't really pin point what I have done wrong, or perhaps its just not the right recipe. Yes, it taste like muffins, soft and moist on the inside. Indeed I could taste the corn and honey as well. But simply not as special as I thought it would turn out.

Pardon how this entry has turned into an entry about how I feel currently. My food seem to simply reflect my emotions. I am not feeling emo or sad btw. Rather, I dont know whats up right now.

Before I go on and on about how I feel, I got the recipe from this link
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Krissys-Best-Ever-Corn-Muffins/Detail.aspx
I have no idea how to link this website to the blog anymore, because as I am posting this right now, the layout of writing a new entry on blogger is totally confusing.

P.S. I did not use cornmeal, as stated in the recipe because I could not find any, so I used corn flour instead, which worked pretty alright. perhaps its because I could not find cornmeal that my muffin did not turn out ideal.

Apple plum muffin

Its been ages since I last baked because there are so many things distracting me right now. On saturday afternoon, when he decided to go exercise, I had some time to bake something. I spotted a slice of apple crumble in the fridge and wanted to bake apple crumble. I know it does not make sense to bake something that is already sitting around in the fridge but in my determination to bake something with apples, my brain did not function very well. After searching for a good apple crumble recipe I realise, its troublesome to bake apple crumbles because most of the good recipes made use of instant pie crust.

Hence I ended up searching for apple muffins. I chance upon an apple donut muffin and was reminded of the same apple donut muffin. Not very interesting. Since there were some plums lying around in the house I decided to modify the recipe, baking Apple plum muffins. Which turned out pretty moist and soft.

Adapted from Tried and Tested

Ingredients

2 apples

3 plums

1 1/2 cup plain flour

1/2 cup sugar

1 3/4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

75g butter

1 egg

1/4 cup milk

Method

1) Peel and roughly chop the apples and plums

2) In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cinnamon. Add the butter to the flour mixture. Rub the butter against the flour until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs

3) Beat the egg. Pour in the milk and stir lightly. Add the chopped apple and plum to the egg-milk mixture.

4) Pour the apple plum mixture to the flour mixture. Stir just until blended.

5) Form the batter into loose balls and place in the muffin pan.

6) Bake at 180C for 25min.

Makes 9 muffins

Flourless Chocolate Cake I

Having a lot of free time right now, I have been watching a lot of TV. Recently there is a program on the travel and living channel, called Willy wonker's chocolate factory. Need I explain what the main ingredient is? Thats my first love as well. Very much inspired by the rich chocolate goodies he makes, I feel there is a need to get in touch with my first love again. 

Since He is flying in today, its the prefect occasion to bake chocolate cake! And No. Its not any chocolate cake, its flourless chocolate cake. The sort of rich and intense chocolate cake that could potentially cause nosebleed. 

Its 60% cacao

A friend recommended a flourless chocolate cake recipe, which I did not use this time. ( That recipe i'll try next time!) This time I tried a recipe I found from allrecipes. Which had tons of good reviews and looked rather easy to make. 

The smell of chocolate is irresistible, I could not stop dipping my finger into the warm chocolate mixture! 

Tasted like pudding just out of the oven and when chilled overnight, taste like chocolate truffle. This is the sort of cake that the diet zone in the brain should be switched off and its important to get a healthy fork in your mouth to be able to taste the richness of the chocolate. 

Finally, goes pretty well with a cup of coffee or tea. :)