Hi, I am Fiona and welcome back to my Videojug Cooking With Kids series and I want to introduce
you to one of my most popular recipes, these are my carrots and oat lunch box muffins.
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Right so take a look, there are quite a few different Ingredients to this recipe but the
trick is, it is so so simple, all you are doing is bunging stuff in and giving it a
stir
Sieving first of all as is often the case when making muffins.
I am adding in some flour, plain flour some baking soda, some baking powder and some salt
as well, give it a sift, OK now it is a case of adding everything else so I have got some
carrot.
So you will be able find all the ingredients for this recipe in the description box.
I have also got some red Leicester cheese, now this is my little cheat if you've got
kids that avoid orange vegetables or any vegetables, try to find another food that matches the
color.
So I am very deliberately using orange cheese with my orange carrot so there a top tip for
you.
I've got two eggs, I've got my porridge oats, I've also got a bit of milk,
some vegetables oil, and also add your yogurt.
The other thing as well that I wanted to say about baking, because I am a very keen baker,
is always make sure before you do anything else, get your oven properly calibrated up
to temperature so it is 180 degrees centigrade, that is 160 fan, so before you even think
about sieving get that up for a good 20 minutes so the heat is properly going because that's
a common mistake that people make when they are baking.
Now what we're doing is giving it a stir through, stir firmly
but not too fast, you don't want to have tough muffins.
Stir firmly but nice and gently too.
Well I think it's fair to say that we are a nation of baking addicts
and I am a complete baking geek so let pass my on my favorite baking tip, which is use
an ice cream scoop to decant perfect amounts of cake mix into your muffin cases.
I've got six here, six more over there.
This mix makes twelve muffins and can you see how easy it go in?
No faf.
I love that tip.
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So I've done five,
six.
And now these are going to go into the oven.
Alright these are the first six and these have been cooking for 24 minutes, but what
I did was turn them around after 20 minutes just to account for any hot spots in the oven;
so another baker's tip there.
I am going to leave these to cool right down in their trays, but a great tip as well is
if you actually while they are still warm, put a little slit
with a knife on the top of each one and add a dab of garlic butter it taste absolutely
gorgeous.
Alright so how simple was that?
My carrot and oats lunch box muffins, and guess what?
To make it even more easy, another tip for you:
you can even freeze the muffin mix if you wanted to.
So it really is that simple.
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But for now, these have cooled down and are ready to eat, so before the kids grab them
all I think I am going to have one for my self.