Quick, Easy and Cheap Muffin Recipes

One of our friends recently posted a comment on our blog. "Do you, the kids, or any of your friends have any favorite make your food budget stretch recipes? I think my kids are getting sick of third day soup!"

~ Heather

Here we have posted some of our family's favorite, easy, quick and very cheap recipes. Check back soon, we will be posting more recipes soon!

Bethany

Basic Muffins (this makes 24 muffins, but if you only want 12 cut everything in half)

4 cups flour

1cup sugar

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups milk

2/3 cup oil

2 eggs, beaten

Pre heat oven to 400*. Grease bottoms only of your muffin pans. Combine in a big bowl all dry ingredents. Then in a smaller bowl mix all the wet ingredients. Then at once pour the wet mix into the dry mix. Stir just until the ingredients are moistened, the batter will be lumpy. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake for 20-25 minutes.

Variations:

Apple Cinnamon:

Decrease sugar by a half of a cup. Add 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1 cup finely chopped and peeled apple. Substitute apple juice for milk, bake at 440 for 18-22 minutes.

Blueberry:

Stir 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries. (If you use frozen blueberries then do not thaw them out first, this keeps the berries from busting). Add 1 teaspoon grated orange peel into dry ingredients.

Chocolate Chip:

Add chocolate chips and sprinkle cinnamon sugar (1 part cinnamon to 4 parts suagr) on top of the muffins before baking.

Jam Muffins:

Place 1/2 teaspoon of jam on top of each muffin before baking. Sprinkle top of muffins with chopped nuts.

Streusel Muffins:

In a small bowl mix 1/2 cup brown sugar, 2 tablespoons margarine, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1/2 cup chopped nuts. Sprinkle over muffins before baking.

Cherry Pie Muffins:

Stir 1/2 a can of cherry pie filling into the batter before filling muffin tins. (To make the muffins sugar free, use Splenda instead of sugar and use the sugar free cherry pie filling).