[Ice]

No it's not a euphemism.   Made these today, part BBC recipe, part my own additions.  Absolutely delicious, foolproof and quick to make.  Good enough to give away as pressies as I made them last year too.  Makes 12 muffins

200g self raising flour
100g caster sugar
100ml sunflower oil
75ml milk
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
50g milk or plain or a mixture of both choc chips
1 heaped tablespoon of mincemeat
50g white choc chips
25g dried cranberries (Craisins)
25g chopped pistachios

Heat oven to 190C/gas 5

Mix flour and sugar in a bowl.  Whisk oil, milk, egg and vanilla extract together, pour on the flour and mix in gently.  Divide mix into two and in one stir in the milk/dark choc chips and mincemeat.  In the other stir in the white choc chips, cranberries and pistachios.

Fill six cases with each mix and bake for 20 minutes.

[mumofstig]

mmmmmm...they sound yummy

[arugula]

Mmm, they sound good. I don't normally venture much further than blueberry and white chocolate in mine.

[Ice]

The mincemeat and chocolate ones are amazing.  I normally don't eat either but they compliment each other well.

[Growster...]

Thanks for this!

Anyone tried savoury muffins?

Mrs G and I were living on them for a while last year!

[arugula]

My Mum used to make a variety of different flavoured savoury muffins. I seem to recall bacon and courgette being very palatable among the other obvious yummy savoury flavours like cheese.

What flavours did you make, Growster?

[Growster...]

My Mum used to make a variety of different flavoured savoury muffins. I seem to recall bacon and courgette being very palatable among the other obvious yummy savoury flavours like cheese.

What flavours did you make, Growster?

It was bacon, cheese, and onions I think Argyllie!

I'll grill Mrs G (not in the biblical sense you understand), about her recipe, and let you know!

All I can remember is that they're very, very wholesome, and you only need a couple at one sitting, and they'll last all of seven days or more before you want to eat anything else...

Or drink either, which is worrying...;0)

[cheshirecheese]

Anyone tried savoury muffins?

I can remember the very first time I had a savoury muffin at a buffet back in the 1970s!  It was a cheesy one, and light as a feather - it looked just like a fairy cake in its paper case, and fooled everyone.  I thought it was sheer genius!

[compostqueen]

I made pumpkin and rosemary muffins the other day    Served warm, split with a rasher of grilled bacon in between. Yum

Those muffins sound lovely Ice. I've got some mincemeat in the fridge that needs using up

[Growster...]

"It was a cheesy one, and light as a feather ".

About the time that cheese souffles were everywhere Cheshires?

They were a great 70s dish, (and so was Mrs G for that matter...;0)

Nothing changes...

[arugula]

They were a great 70s dish, (and so was Mrs G for that matter...;0)

[Mosslane]

I make sweet/savoury muffins quite a lot as we have to be sugar free and so shop bought cakes are a no no. Pumpkin and sunflower seeds make a lovely muffin, as does cheese and roasted onion. Think my favourites are banana and raisin though.

[mumofstig]

banana & choc chip *drool*

chopped & pre-fried, sweet red peppers are really good in muffins - just swirled through as you put the mix in the tins