Best muffins EVER!!

Apple-cinnamon muffins

The best recipes are hand-me-down ones, they have been aprooved from soo many mouths, changed until perfection. I inhereted this recipe from Karen, who used to make batches and batches of them at their accomodation for morning breakfast and me batches and batches for Tarte Cafe. It absolutely is our favorite muffin recipe. A keeper!

 

Ingredients:

250gms (1cup) butter melted, 1 cup plain yoghurt, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon baking soda/natron

2 eggs, 4 cups of flour, 1 handfull of bran (optional), 2 teaspoons baking powder, milk,

1 cup stewed apple

2 cups chopped apple, 2 tablespoons sugar, ground cinnamon

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 180°C, grease muffin tray.

Mix melted butter, yoghurt and sugar in a bowl, sprinkle 1 teaspoon baking soda on top. Add the eggs. Add flour, bran (optional), baking powder, enough milk to make a soft dough. Add 1 cup of stewed apple for a wet mix. This is the basic recipe.

Everything you add from now on is for flavor. There are endless possibilities of flavors. Favorites at 

Tarte Cafe were: rasberry & white chocolate, banana & chocolate chip,

plum & cream cheese, blueberry, and apple/cinnamon. Create your own yummy mix.

We contiune with the apple/cinnamon one. 

Add the chopped apples into the dough mix, spoon into muffin tray ( I use the big ones) , mix sugar and cinnamon and spinkle each muffin top with this mix.

Bake at 180°C for 20 minutes.

Russischer Zupfkuchen/Russian Cheesecake

Today we are making a family all time favorite. I started making this cake when I still had Tarte Cafe in New Zealand and it already then was a favorite. At the moment we make this cake for any occasion, as it is easy to make, it keeps long and is very delicious. The kids take big batches of it to school camp and comming back, everybody wanted the recipe.Ingredients:

200g flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 100g sugar, pinch of salt, 1 pkt of vanilla-sugar or 1 tablespoons vanilla-essence, 2 tablespoons cocoa, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon of lemonjuice, 100g butter,
4 eggyolks, 4 eggwhites, 250g butter, 250g sugar,
2 pkt of vanilla-sugar or 2 tablespoons vanilla-essence, 1 pkt vanilla custard powder
or g of vanilla custard powder, 5oog cream cheese or quark

Instructions:
Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar and vanilla-sugar or essence. Add lemon juice, cocoa, salt, 1egg and 100g butter. Kned into a ball of dough, wrap in gladwrap and store in fridge for at least 35 min. Preheat oven to 180°C.
Seperate the eggs, beat egg whites until they form a peak. In a seperate bowl, mix 250g butter, 250sugar, 2pkts vanilla sugar or 2 tbsp vanilla essence until light and fluffy. Add the 4 eggyolks and the vanilla custard powder. Add the beaten eggwhites and mix carefully. In the end, add the creamcheese/quark and blend to an even mix.
Take chocolate dough mix out of fridge, place baking paper into the bottom of a 24cm cake tin. Spread 3/4 of the dough onto bottom and sides of the tin, creating an even rim.
Fill cheesecake mix into prepared cake tin, spread evenly. Pinch off small pieces of the rest of the chocolate dough and spread them onto the cheesecake mix. You can also use a cookie cutter with a fun shape or cut out letters to make a name.
Bake at 180°C for 60 minutes in the middle of the stove. Cool in tin.
Refridgirate for minimum an hour. Enjoy