Recipe Review from Thanksgiving: Sweet Potato Muffins and Spiked Cider
Most of our cooking over Thanksgiving was fairly standard fare: turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce. We did, however, take two recently acquired recipes for test drives with great success.
First off, we had Sweet Potato Muffins. xhollydayx and I first ate them at the recent supper club extravaganza hosted by stampinmak and indy_was_here and immediately decided to make them for Thanksgiving. The recipe:
1/2 cup butter - leave it out for a few hours to soften it up
1 1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/4 cups canned sweet potato - I used candied sweet potatoes and it wasn't too sweet. If you use regular sweet potatoes you might want to add more sugar. Further experimentation may be needed.
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt - I left this out.
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup walnuts, chopped - Can also use pecans.
1/2 cup raisins, chopped
1/3 cup milk - approximate. When I got the recipe, the exact amount wasn't written down so we guesstimated.
The original recipe that stampinmak gave us made about 50 of the little 1 1/2" muffins. The recipe called for it to be baked for 25 minutes. We used regular sized muffins, and got 18 of them with only 20 minutes baking time. Adjust accordingly for your oven.
[1] Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
[2] Cream the butter & the sugar together. Add the eggs and mix well.
[3] Add the sweet potatoes. Mash it up well.
[4] In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon & nutmeg.
[5] Mix the dry ingredients into the other bowl with the milk.
[6] Fold in the walnuts and raisins.
[7] Grease your muffin tins before putting the mix in them.
[8] Bake until done.
The muffins were a great success and everybody enjoyed them. Perhaps stampinmak can tell us which book they came from?
We encountered the second recipe on our recent Veteran's Day outing to Pittsburgh, PA, where we saw mokatz, diffusedglow, sam16 and supercarrot. diffusedglow made this Spiked Cider recipe to close out a busy Saturday with a kick:
1 quart water
3 orange spice tea bags
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 cups apple cider
1 1/2 cups light rum
3 teaspoons butter
8 cinnamon sticks - in lieu of sticks, we used powdered cinnamon.
[1] Pour water into a large saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat. Add the teabags, cover and let steep for 5 minutes.
[2] Remove the tea bags. Stir in the sugar, apple cider, rum and cinnamon. Heat until steaming, but do not let it boil again.
[3] Here we diverged from the recipe:
RECIPE: Ladle hot cider into 6 mugs. Drop 1/2 teaspoon of butter into each mug and let it melt. Garnish each cup with a cinnamon stick.
US: Add the butter to the pot. Stir until melted. I'm pretty sure that diffusedglow did it this way too, but I wasn't actually paying attention so I could be wrong about that. In any event, it's a lot easier than adding butter to each mug, especially because we used small mugs.
You may need to adjust the rum levels to taste. When xhollydayx poured the first glass for her dad's wife, it had a really potent kick. Diluting it with cider and water corrected that 'problem'.
More supper club recipes to come, hopefully. *looks at darlox*
First off, we had Sweet Potato Muffins. xhollydayx and I first ate them at the recent supper club extravaganza hosted by stampinmak and indy_was_here and immediately decided to make them for Thanksgiving. The recipe:
1/2 cup butter - leave it out for a few hours to soften it up
1 1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/4 cups canned sweet potato - I used candied sweet potatoes and it wasn't too sweet. If you use regular sweet potatoes you might want to add more sugar. Further experimentation may be needed.
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt - I left this out.
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup walnuts, chopped - Can also use pecans.
1/2 cup raisins, chopped
1/3 cup milk - approximate. When I got the recipe, the exact amount wasn't written down so we guesstimated.
The original recipe that stampinmak gave us made about 50 of the little 1 1/2" muffins. The recipe called for it to be baked for 25 minutes. We used regular sized muffins, and got 18 of them with only 20 minutes baking time. Adjust accordingly for your oven.
[1] Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
[2] Cream the butter & the sugar together. Add the eggs and mix well.
[3] Add the sweet potatoes. Mash it up well.
[4] In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon & nutmeg.
[5] Mix the dry ingredients into the other bowl with the milk.
[6] Fold in the walnuts and raisins.
[7] Grease your muffin tins before putting the mix in them.
[8] Bake until done.
The muffins were a great success and everybody enjoyed them. Perhaps stampinmak can tell us which book they came from?
We encountered the second recipe on our recent Veteran's Day outing to Pittsburgh, PA, where we saw mokatz, diffusedglow, sam16 and supercarrot. diffusedglow made this Spiked Cider recipe to close out a busy Saturday with a kick:
1 quart water
3 orange spice tea bags
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 cups apple cider
1 1/2 cups light rum
3 teaspoons butter
8 cinnamon sticks - in lieu of sticks, we used powdered cinnamon.
[1] Pour water into a large saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat. Add the teabags, cover and let steep for 5 minutes.
[2] Remove the tea bags. Stir in the sugar, apple cider, rum and cinnamon. Heat until steaming, but do not let it boil again.
[3] Here we diverged from the recipe:
RECIPE: Ladle hot cider into 6 mugs. Drop 1/2 teaspoon of butter into each mug and let it melt. Garnish each cup with a cinnamon stick.
US: Add the butter to the pot. Stir until melted. I'm pretty sure that diffusedglow did it this way too, but I wasn't actually paying attention so I could be wrong about that. In any event, it's a lot easier than adding butter to each mug, especially because we used small mugs.
You may need to adjust the rum levels to taste. When xhollydayx poured the first glass for her dad's wife, it had a really potent kick. Diluting it with cider and water corrected that 'problem'.
More supper club recipes to come, hopefully. *looks at darlox*