Muffin recipe collection equals insanity.. LOL

[C.Ann]

Okay.. I have been collecting muffin recipes for several years now.. At times, I have posted some of the really good ones I have tried here on the DIS..

The past few days I have been working on sorting through them; filing new ones I've recently copied; and pulling out any duplicates I accidentally copied over again.. I have six of the extra thick binders that they are stored in (alphabetically) - and will soon have to start a 7th..

Last night I decided to take a count of exactly how many different muffin recipes I have (actually expected it to be much higher - but I think that was due to duplicates I pulled out) and was quite shocked to find the grand total was...............1,368 recipes!!

What am I going to do with 1,368 muffin recipes (not counting the ones I still have here that I need to copy over and file)?? I could bake one kind - every day - for 3 and a half years - and I still wouldn't have tried all of them (considering that I'm still adding to the collection every day)..

I told my DD and my DGD that as I try each recipe, I will mark it off - along with a rating of how good (or bad) it was - and whatever recipes are left after I die, they are going to have to bake - or I'm going to come back and haunt them..

I don't know what it is about muffins.. I just love them - and can't let a recipe "slip" by me.. Definitely insanity..

 

[clarabelle]

You write a cookbook!
I'll buy the first copy!

 

[SCHBR'smom]

all I have to say is........... mmmmmm, muffins

 

[C.Ann]

You write a cookbook!
I'll buy the first copy!

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Several people have already suggested that - since the majority of the recipes are not copyrighted - or I have changed a few things here and there to my liking..

I've had all sorts of things suggested to me.. Take all the "apple" recipes, put them in one cookbook, and put them out for sale in the various apple orchards..

Ditto for the places that offer "pick your own blueberries"..

Take all of the really "unusual" ones (like Cheesy Pepperoni muffins) and do a separate cookbook of those..

Do a monthly newsletter - for Bed & Breakfast places - with a different variety of muffins each month..

Great ideas, but they sound like a lot of work and I wouldn't even know where to begin.. And then there's the "tried and true" situation.. I would never, ever publish a recipe unless I tried it myself ahead of time to be sure that it was good and came out exactly the way it's supposed to..

I guess I'll just continue to pull a bunch out from time to time and bake them for our own enjoyment..

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

Cheesy Pepperoni muffins??? Would you be willing to post the recipe? Sounds heavenly!!

 

[DMRick]

Not C.Ann, but I've made this one several times from the Baking Bits place. If you do a google with Pepperoni Cheese Muffins you get a lot, and some use easier ingredients, but this is my grands favorite and I make them for a camping group we are members off, and they love them. Some of the recipes are greasy, but these are perfect.


Pepperoni Muffins

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon dried basil leaves
1 tablespoons white sugar
1 cup diced pepperoni
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
4 green onions, chopped
1 egg, beaten
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup grated chedder cheese

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease 12 muffin cups. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, basil and sugar; stir until well blended. Mix in pepperoni, green onions ( I use any onions I have) and cheese. In another bowl beat egg with buttermilk. Add egg mixture to dry ingredients and stir until combined. Spoon batter into muffin tins until half full. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup cheese on top of muffins. Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the muffin comes out clean.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!! That sounds sooo good!

 

[C.Ann]

Not C.Ann, but I've made this one several times from the Baking Bits place. If you do a google with Pepperoni Cheese Muffins you get a lot, and some use easier ingredients, but this is my grands favorite and I make them for a camping group we are members off, and they love them. Some of the recipes are greasy, but these are perfect.


Pepperoni Muffins

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon dried basil leaves
1 tablespoons white sugar
1 cup diced pepperoni
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
4 green onions, chopped
1 egg, beaten
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup grated chedder cheese

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease 12 muffin cups. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, basil and sugar; stir until well blended. Mix in pepperoni, green onions ( I use any onions I have) and cheese. In another bowl beat egg with buttermilk. Add egg mixture to dry ingredients and stir until combined. Spoon batter into muffin tins until half full. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup cheese on top of muffins. Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the muffin comes out clean.

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LOL.. That's one of the cheese pepperoni muffin recipes that I have - but I changed a couple of ingredients to meet my families preferences.. Don't know where I came across it, but it wasn't online.. I haven't even ivestigated online sources yet - if I did, I would probably have at least 100,000 recipes by now!

 

[Teresa Pitman]

Do you belong to a church or another organization that might be interested in printing a cookbook as a fundraiser? Maybe the others in the group could help you test the recipes?

Teresa

 

[C.Ann]

Do you belong to a church or another organization that might be interested in printing a cookbook as a fundraiser? Maybe the others in the group could help you test the recipes?

Teresa

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If there was some way I could do this - with proceeds going to St. Jude Children's Hospital - I would do it in a heart beat! Finding others to test the recipes though would be difficult.. It seems that not a lot of people have time to bake these days - or they just aren't interested in baking..

Recently the small town I'm in up here did a cookbook for a fund raiser for the Historical Society, but it was during the time that I was back at DD's (the winter months) so I was unaware of it.. Had I known, I would have definitely contributed to it..

 

[RNMOM]

Hey C.Ann, you rock! I used to love to bake but I run out of energy so quickly it becomes a chore anymore.

I used to be able to get these wonderful muffins at a bagel place a dozen years ago or so but have never seen them anywhere or a recipe that came close. They were called 'morning glories' and were a carrot nut muffin with pineapple and some crumble on top. They were so moist and wonderful. Have you any recipes that come close? I would be very grateful if you do. Thanks.

How do you store your recipes? Mine are a jumbled mess.

 

[C.Ann]

Hey C.Ann, you rock! I used to love to bake but I run out of energy so quickly it becomes a chore anymore.

I used to be able to get these wonderful muffins at a bagel place a dozen years ago or so but have never seen them anywhere or a recipe that came close. They were called 'morning glories' and were a carrot nut muffin with pineapple and some crumble on top. They were so moist and wonderful. Have you any recipes that come close? I would be very grateful if you do. Thanks.

How do you store your recipes? Mine are a jumbled mess.

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I copy all of my muffin recipes - by hand - on college-ruled lined paper. They are then placed in sheet protectors, in very large binders - in alphabetical order..

I have 5 different recipes for Morning Glory Muffins - only two have carrots, nuts, and pineapple.. No "crumble" topping - but I'm guessing any crumble topping would work..

One recipe has (among other things): carrots; raisins; coconut; pecans; and pineapple..

The other has: applesauce; carrots; 1 tart apple; carrots; pineapple; coconut; raisins; and walnuts..

Do either of those sound like what you're looking for?

 

[Epcot luvr]

ooooooooooohh muffins, I love em. My favorite are blueberry, there was a department store in Boston when I was a kid that had the best. Jordan Marsh Blueberry muffins with the sugary topping they were huge and so good.

 

[C.Ann]

ooooooooooohh muffins, I love em. My favorite are blueberry, there was a department store in Boston when I was a kid that had the best. Jordan Marsh Blueberry muffins with the sugary topping they were huge and so good.

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I have that recipe - or should I say my "variation" of it.. I tend to change a lot of things around to suit my families taste or my taste.. My son-in-law LOVES this one..

 

[Meriweather]

LOL....I am that way with cookie recipes.
I have at least 30 cookie recipe books and in my computer recipe program, I have typed in 3650 recipes!!
I have baked a different cookie recipe for DH's work place every week (well almost) for the last 9 years.

 

[C.Ann]

LOL....I am that way with cookie recipes.
I have at least 30 cookie recipe books and in my computer recipe program, I have typed in 3650 recipes!!
I have baked a different cookie recipe for DH's work place every week (well almost) for the last 9 years.

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I shouldn't say it but...............I have a huge cookie recipe collection too.. They are in my "Christmas Binders" - along with photos of my DGD baking Christmas cookies with me since she was a toddler..
When I die, that will be passed along to her - because my DD isn't much of a "cookie" baker..

 

[TwingleMum]

Would you share your favorite chocolate chip muffin?? Thanks!!