Courgette muffins

Muffin recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 25 mins; recipe has courgette, apple, orange, egg, butter, self-raising flour, baking powder, cinnamon, golden caster sugar, sultana and soft cheese.

Courgette muffins

Courgette muffins

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Muffin
Servings

4 - 8

servings
Prep time

35 mins

Ingredients

  • Egg: 1 egg
  • Courgette: 50g courgette, cut into chunks
  • Butter: 75g butter, melted
  • Cinnamon: 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • Orange: 1 orange, halved
  • Apple: 1 apple, peeled and quartered
  • Self Raising Flour: 300g self-raising flour
  • Baking Powder: 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • Sultana: handful of sultanas
  • Golden Caster Sugar: 100g golden caster sugar
  • Soft Cheese: 1 tub soft cheese mixed with 3 tbsp icing sugar, to make icing

Directions

  1. Brush the muffin tin with oil.Ask your grown-up helperto switch the oven to 190C/ 170C fan/gas 5.
  2. Grate the courgettes and put them in a large bowl. Grate the apple and add to the bowl. Squeeze the orange and add the juice to the bowl.
  3. Break the egg into a bowl; if any bits of shell get in, scoop them out with a spoon. Stir the butter and egg into the courgette and apple mix.
  4. Sieve the flour, baking powder and cinnamon into the bowl. Add the sugar and sultanas.
  5. Mix with a spoon until everything is combined, but don't worry if it is lumpy.
  6. Spoon the mixture into the tin.Ask your helperto put it in the oven and cook for 20-25 mins. Cool in the tin, then spread some icing on each.