Best Old Fashioned Farina Muffins Recipes

OLD FASHIONED MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• In medium bowl, combine dry ingredients and mix well.
• Cut in butter and shortening until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
• Combine milk, vanilla and eggs and blueberries.
• Add to dry mix until just moistened.
• Spoon into prepared pan filling each cup 3/4 full.
• Bake 30-35 minutes.
• Cool five minutes before serving.
• *Variation: leave out the blueberries and reduce cooking time to 20-25 minutes.

GRANDMOTHER'S MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups. Stir the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl; set aside.
• Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Add 1 egg and allow it to blend into the butter mixture; beat the vanilla and milk into the mixture with the second egg. Mix the flour mixture into the wet ingredients until just incorporated. Divide the dough into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden and the tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 30 minutes.

CINNAMON BLUEBERRY FARINA MUFFINS

Steps:

• Mix flour, cereal, 1/4 cup of the sugar, baking powder and cinnamon in medium bowl; set aside.
• Beat egg, milk, oil and vanilla with wire whisk until well blended. Add to dry ingredients; stir just until moistened. Gently stir in blueberries. Spoon evenly into 12 greased 2-1/2-inch muffin pans, filling each cup 2/3 full.
• Bake at 400°F for 18 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Remove from pan.
• Brush tops of warm muffins with apple juice; roll in remaining 1/4 cup sugar. Serve warm.

OLD FASHIONED MAYONNAISE MUFFINS- GRANDMA'S

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease a muffin tin and set aside.
• 2. In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, mayonnaise, and milk. Stir together until smooth. Spoon the batter into a greased muffin tin, filling two-thirds full. Bake at 425 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes. Watch carefully because these can quickly burn.

BLUEBERRY ALMOND FARINA MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Combine ingredients for topping and set aside.
• Whisk farina, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
• Take out 1 TBSP of the dry mixture and coat the blueberries.
• Combine wet ingredients.
• Add wet ingredients to dry. Mix 10 strokes, add blueberries, and mix 3 more strokes. You will have a more tender product if you resist the urge to keep stirring.
• Fill cups of muffin pan 3/4 full, and sprinkle with topping.
• Bake 12-13 minutes, or until muffins are golden brown and tester comes out clean.

OLD FASHIONED BANANA MUFFINS

Steps:

• In small bowl prepare streusel topping by combining sugar and flour, cut in butter and set aside.
• In bowl, measure flour, baking powder and salt; whisk to mix and set aside.
• Separate eggs, yolks in small bowl, whites beaten to stiff peaks in a larger bowl; set aside.
• Cream together butter and sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy, add egg yolks and vanilla extract mixing to blend.
• Add baking soda to the buttermilk, add to batter mix.
• Stir in mashed bananas.
• Add dry ingredients stirring until mixed, gently fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.
• Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups two thirds full, topping with a sprinkling of the streusel topping mix.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven 20- 25 minutes or until golden brown; this varies from oven to oven.

BASIC MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F. Butter muffin pans. Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a large bowl. Add the egg, milk, and butter, stirring only enough to dampen the flour; the batter should not be smooth. Spoon into the muffin pans, filling each cup about two-thirds full. Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes each.
• Blueberry Muffins.
• Use 1/2 cup sugar. Reserve 1/4 cup of the flour, sprinkle it over 1 cup blueberries, and stir them into the batter last.
• Pecan Muffins.
• Use 1/4 cup sugar. Add 1/2 cup chopped pecans to the batter. After filling the cups, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, and more chopped nuts.
• Whole-Wheat Muffins.
• Use 3/4 cup whole-wheat flour and 1 cup white flour.
• Date or Raisin Muffins.
• Add 1/2 cup chopped pitted dates or 1/3 cup raisins to the batter.
• Bacon Muffins.
• Add 3 strips bacon, fried crisp and crumbled, to the batter.