Cakes & Bakes

Black Grape Muffins

 Happiness is freshly baked muffins. Black Grape muffins very moist, fluffy, packed full of flavors from black grapes and absolutely delicious. enjoyed it with Nutella and my favorite Earl Grey. Pure bliss.

 

Getting as addicted to baking and yes I’m loving my new role a lot. Well grapes are plenty in season and we enjoy grapes in any form. I have been cooking with strawberries a lot for past one month and thought of giving then some rest and use some other fruit. I had sudden urge of having muffins and there were plenty of black grapes sitting in my refrigerator…there came this thought of using them in muffins. Grapes in muffins am I doing the right thing or not….how would it taste like. But I loved the end result of it…well baked, super moist, fully with the goodness of grapes oozing out and gorgeous muffin top. I loved it and I am sure you will also love these. These beauties can be enjoyed for breakfast, as a dessert or as an evening snack with your favorite cuppa, as I did with my favorite Earl Grey.

 

“Life is certainly better with fresh
baked goodies”



Black grapes, velvety colored and deliciously sweet and juicy, can be consumed fresh and raw, dried as raisins or as a juice. Rich in antioxidants polyphenols black grapes helps reduce inflammation, they are full of fiber and helps control calorie content and loads of other goodness you get from these gorgeous fruits. Now I think I will be cooking with grapes more often now till the season lasts. The goodness of fresh fruit in every bite of muffin is simply mind blowing.  Be ready to serve these muffins to your family and sit back to enjoy the lovely comments you would be getting in return. Believe me all efforts will be worth it!!



These muffins are probably the best with very simple ingredients and hardly any time to get them into the oven for baking. I would like to share a simple tip with you to get those beautiful muffin tops…simply fill your muffin cups till top to get that beautiful dome. Simple isn’t it…well yes this did work. Ever since I have overcome my fear of baking, my love affair with my oven has been nonstop, last week baked chocolate cupcakes with strawberry butter cream frosting for my daughter’s birthday, then a chocolate and strawberry cake for her, a chocolate cake just like that because I was craving for some, then a pineapple cake for VK on his birthday on March 1st. Today I baked these yummy muffins just because the grapes wanted to go into the oven…VK’s colleagues have been asking him to get some for them as well, so have sent a few with him to his office. It is giving me immense satisfaction that people are loving my work….wow I am so happy. Nothing says home like a smell of baking.




“Happiness
is baking muffins.
Happiness is giving them away.
And serving them, and eating
Them, and talking about them,
Reading and writing about them,
Thinking about them, and
Sharing then with you”
You can too enjoy these muffins as we did by following the recipe given below. 
 
Yields about 16 muffins.

 

Ingredients:
  • 375 grams all purpose flour
  • 4 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon freshly ground cinnamon
  • 2 eggs at room temperature
  • 150 grams granulated sugar
  • 50 grams light brown sugar
  • 240 ml buttermilk at room temperature
  • 120 ml canola oil or any vegetable oil (I used canola oil)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 200 grams of black grapes, cut into halves
Directions :
  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Coat the muffin pan with melted butter and keep aside.
  2. In a large bowl add flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon, whisk till all the dry ingredients are combined. Set aside
  3. In another bowl, whisk together eggs, granulated sugar and brown sugar until combined. Add oil, buttermilk and vanilla extract and mix well. The mixture will be pale and yellow at this stage.
  4. Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix everything together by hand. Avoid OVERMIXING, as it will result in tough and dry muffins. Gently mix just until all the flour is incorporated well into the mixture and no dry flour remains. The batter at this stage will be very thick and somewhat lumpy, which is fine.
  5. Gently fold in grapes into the batter.
  6. Spoon the batter into prepared muffin tins and fill all the way till top.
  7. Bake for 25 – 30 minutes till golden or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Allow to cool for 5 minutes, remove and let it cool completely on wire racks. Do not keep your muffins for long in hot muffin tins as they tend to be overcooked and become hard.
See you soon, till then enjoy gorgeous baked beauties.

 

Love
K