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The Best Basic Muffins

Ingredients

  • 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup milk*
  • 1/4 cup melted butter
  • 2 large eggs

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 400°F.
  2. Lightly grease the cups of a standard 12-cup muffin pan or large 6-cup muffin pan. Or line the cups with papers, and grease the papers.
  3. Blend together the dry ingredients.
  4. Beat the liquid ingredients together — milk, butter, and eggs — until light.
  5. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Take a fork or wire whisk and blend the two briefly — about 20 seconds should do it.
  6. Fill the cups of the muffin pan two-thirds to three-quarters full.
  7. Bake the muffins for 10-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of one of the center muffins comes out clean. Remove them from the oven, and as soon as you can handle them turn them out of the pan onto a rack to cool.

Recipe Notes

*You can also use water in place of milk. I find no noticeable difference in the results. StIll tastes just as great and I probably use water half of the time I make them. Enjoy!