Friday, May 6, 2011

baking success

last night i made pumpkin muffins with crumble topping (scroll down to the bottom of the post - above the comments), and people: i know i say this a lot, but if you haven't had these muffins YOU HAVE NOT YET LIVED.  i was talking to the muffin as i ate it.  literally.  the conversation went something like this:

bite one: "oh. my. god."
bite two: "this is so gooooooooood."
bite three: "i am an incredible cheffffff."*
bite four: "i need another one NOW."

but i couldn't have another one!  now OR in the near future.  today is the day i reward my students who have won the current events competitions we have been having all semester in my AP government classes. i reward them with food because they enjoy that.  i made a couple different treats, including these muffins.  there are 6 students on a team x 3 classes = 18 muffins needed, and i only made 19.  the recipe says it makes 12, but that is a LIE.  it makes 19 perfectly.  well, it probably makes 18 perfectly, but i wanted to try one.  duh.

yes, this is a fall-like recipe (perfect for thanksgiving), but it is still delish in may.  things i did differently than the recipe: butter instead of shortening, cinnamon instead of "pumpkin pie spice" (as i have no such thing), real flour instead of gluten-free (duh), i only used about 2/3 of the topping mixture i made, and no powdered sugar sprinkled on top (i dislike that in general).

i'll DEFINITELY be making these again soon...


*by "incredible chef," i mean "incredibly good at following a recipe and not burning things."

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