Butter Tart Muffins

[janedavitt]

I cooked mine for more like 20 mins. Heavenly. Just so easy and melt in the mouth yummy.

Recipe is here

Butter Tart Muffins
Autumn 2007
By: Lucy Waverman


These muffins are very dense and really do taste like butter tarts. They are also not supposed to look rounded and perfect like a regular muffin, so when putting them in the pan leave them looking messy.
¾ cup (175 mL) granulated sugar
½ cup (125 mL) butter, cut into pieces
2 eggs, slightly beaten
½ cup (125 mL) milk
1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla
1½ cups (375 mL) raisins
1½ cups (375 mL) flour
2 tsp (10 mL) baking powder
1 tsp (5 mL) baking soda

Topping
2 tbsp (25 mL) maple syrup

1. Place sugar, butter, eggs, milk and vanilla in a heavy-bottom saucepan over medium heat and cook, stirring constantly, until slightly thickened and beginning to bubble. Remove from heat, strain if necessary. Stir in raisins and let cool, uncovered, in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.

2. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).

3. Combine flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add reserved raisin mixture and mix well. Fill into lightly greased large muffin tins. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden and a cake tester comes out clean. Remove from oven and brush tops of muffins with maple syrup.

Makes 6 Texas-sized muffins

Comments

[bluewolf458]

Now it would never occur to me to put anything hot in the fridge...

The recipe certainly looks interesting, but I don't bake (and the only reason I can cook is the years I spent weekending. Camping or hostelling, you either cook for yourself or you starve. But for long enough all I could do was heat up something out of a can). Just buying pre-made pastry, rolling it out and putting it in the oven takes almost more guts than I have.

I used to bake, when I was a kid... but a year of domestic science classes cured me of being able to.

[janedavitt]

Well, they're pretty easy though cooking part of it before you bake is unusual for a muffin.

[everbright]

I just ran across an recipe from Plainpennyknits that's basically this, except you dump the egg in after the mix is just cooled enough it won't cook the egg, and you just make one big loaf or cake out of it. Well, also no maple syrup, because Penny's English. It takes about 30 mins at the same temp.

[janedavitt]

I find that happens a lot with recipes. I bet it would be yummy as a loaf cake.

[everbright]

YUP! It comes out with the sugary muffin-top crust if you do it right (managed it twice,) and a little more like a light pumpkin bread OR it browns up like a fruitcake if you manage to, ah, be distracted and get some of the proportions wrong....