Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins - Kurpitsamunkkimuffinit
The pumpkin season is here! It's about time to post these lovely muffins (or doughnuts?) as I've been baking these for almost a decade. Should one call them muffins or doughnuts? Bake them and decide yourself! The taste and consistency is like of a doughnut, but basically they are muffins with brushed butter and sugar coating on the outside. Promise me you'll try these as they are full of juiciness from pumpkin puree; they are soft and mouthmeltingly delicious and then that crispy sugary coating makes them like doughnuts! It's funny how they can taste so doughtnut-ty without all the fuss of deep-frying.
I usually make my own pumpkin puree (it's not readily available in Finnish grocery stores). I like to use either butternut squash or Hokkaido squash. My utmost favorite would be kabocha squash, but they are certainly not available in Finland. I just remove the peel and chop the squash into big pieces and then cook in scarce water or steam the pieces and then drain the water (I might save it for later to be used as liquid in a soup or in other baking).
The lighting conditions were quite changing and I was in a hurry to leave to work when I shot the muffins. It was early morning and the sunlight started reflecting from the opposite wall to my kitchen window. I really like how the mood changed from the first takes to the last ones. That's why I like and dislike natural light. It gives you surprizes (that might be good or bad). That is why I should start studying the use of artificial light as it would give me some control over the lighting. Let's see when that happens :D
These muffins/doughnuts are absolutely delicious autumn treats: soft and juicy for the pumpking puree with a sugary doughnut coating.
Ingredients:
- 140 g butter (with 1,5% salt) or unsalted butter* or 105 g butter + 30 g vegetable oil**
- 180 ml white or light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 650 ml all-purpose flour
- 2,5 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1,5 tsp ground cinnamon
- 0,5 tsp ground ginger
- 80 ml buttermilk
- 320 g pureed pumpkin For the coating:
- 50 g melted butter
- 100 ml granulated sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 175-180 C. Brush 12-14 muffin cups lightly with oil.
- Combine the dry ingredients (the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ginger). In another bowl, stir the buttermilk to the pumpkin puree (=the wet ingredients).
- Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
- Add about a third of the flour mixture and fold until barely combined. Add about half of the wet ingredients and stir quickly until barely combined. Add then again a third of the flour mix, fold, then the rest of the wet ingredients, stir, and lastly the rest of the flour mix. Stir/fold as little as possible (avoid overmixing!).
- Divide the batter into the muffin cups and bake about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes before unmolding.
- The doughnut coating: Combine the sugar and cinnamon on a shallow plate. Brush the muffins, one by one, all over with the melted butter, then immediately after brushing roll them in the cinnamon-sugar mix. Working one muffin at a time ensures that the sugar coating sticks better to the surface.
*If using unsalted butter, add 1/2 tsp salt.
**You can substitute vegetable oil for some of the butter (oil contains more fat/weight, so remember to decrease the amount of oil in about 10%. I've tried them with 105 g butter + 30 g rapeseed oil and that worked well. I haven't tried with more oil, but I don't see any reason why it would not work. If you do, please let me know how it went.)
***Nutritional information is based on average values and is a rough estimate.
Adapted from browneyedbaker.com.
Nämä "munkki"-muffinit ovat uskomattoman herkullisia syksyherkkuja: niissä on paljon kurpitsasosetta, joka tekee niistä pehmeän mehukkaita. Kaneli-sokeri ja pinnalle sivelty voi antavat niille munkkimaisen ulkomuodon ja maun.
Ainekset:
- 140 g normaalisuolaista voita huoneenlämpöisenä (tai 105 g voita ja 30 g kasvisöljyä**)
- 1,75 dl sokeria (valkoista tai vaaleaa ruokosokeria)
- 2 kananmunaa
- 6,5 dl puolikarkeaa vehnäjauhoa
- 2,5 tl leivinjauhetta
- 1/4 tl ruokasoodaa
- 1,5 tl jauhettua kanelia
- 1/2 tl jauhettua inkivääriä
- 3/4 dl piimää
- 320 g kurpitsasosetta (jos sinulla ei ole vaakaa, n. 3 dl on riittävä tarkkuus) Pinnalle:
- 50 g sulatettua voita
- 1 dl hienoasokeria
- 1 tl jauhettua kanelia
Valmistusohjeet:
- Esilämmitä uuni 175-180 asteeseen (oC). Voitele 12-14 muffinivuoan koloa kevyesti öljyllä.
- Yhdistä kuivat aineet (jauhot, leivinjauhe, ruokasooda, kaneli, inkivääri). Sekoita piimä kurpitsasoseen (älä yhdistä nestemäisiä aineksia kuiviin vielä tässä vaiheessa).
- Vaahdota voi ja sokeri, kunnes siitä tulee vaaleaa ja kuohkeaa. Vatkaa sekaan kananmunat yksitellen.
- Lisää noin kolmannes kuivista aineksista ja kääntele kunnes ainekset juuri ja juuri sekoittuvat. Lisää noin puolet nestemäisistä aineksista ja sekoita nopeasti yhteen. Lisää sitten vuorotellen toinen kolmannes kuivista aineksista, loput nestemäisistä aineksista ja sitten loput kuivista aineksista sekoittaen välissä. Vältä sekoittamasta liikaa.
- Jaa taikina muffinivuokiin ja paista noin 25 minuuttia tai kunnes muffinin keskelle työnnettyyn hammastikkuun ei enää tartu raakaa taikinaa. Anna jäähtyä noin 10 minuuttia ennen vuoasta irrottamista.
- Munkkisokerointi: Yhdistä sokeri ja kaneli matalalla lautasella. Voitele muffini kauttaaltaan sulatetulla voilla ja kierittele heti voitelun jälkeen kanelisokerissa. Käsittele loput muffinit samoin. Käsittelemällä yhden muffinin kerrallaan sokeri tarttuu paremmin pintaan.
**Energiasisältö perustuu keskimääräisiin arvoihin.
Lähde: browneyedbaker.com
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