Green tea muffins

(There is no durian in this recipe.)

Over Christmas break, I was in a muffin baking mood and probably baked 100+ of them - banana, banana with pecans, banana with durian filling, green tea, green tea with nuts, banana durian blend, no sugar banana with durian filling, and chocolate chip banana.

This was the first time I made the green tea muffins. My mom bought some matcha powder from the grocery store and I just had to try it.

Ingredients:
(Dry)

• 2 cups wheat flour. All-purpose flour works fine. I used the Korean wheat flour below.
  
  
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 teaspoons green tea matcha powder (or more if you like)
  

(Wet)

• 1 cup white sugar
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup milk 

Ingredients: (makes about 14 muffins)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line muffin pan with paper muffin liners. 
2. Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and matcha powder, and sift.
3. In a separate bowl, beat the butter until light. Add in the sugar and eggs and mix again. Add the flour mixture and milk. Mix just enough until ingredients look mixed. Don't overmix!  
4. Scoop into muffin liners until about 2/3 full.
   
5. Bake in the preheated oven until toothpick comes out clean. It was about 15-16 minutes for me.
   

I added nuts to some of the muffins. I probably should have taken them out of the oven like 30 seconds earlier. Next time I'd like to try mixing in some sweet azuki beans. (I saw a green tea with red bean cake at a Chinese bakery.)

Durian muffins recipe

I made durian muffins for the third time (second time this weekend.) My brother loves them! :) We saw durian on sale for 50 cents a pound at the newly opened HMart in Doraville!

Below is my recipe, which is based upon a banana muffin recipe I found on allrecipes.com.



Ingredients:
(Dry)

• 1 1/2 cups Korean wheat flour (see picture.) All-purpose flour works fine.
  
  
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
  
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  

(Wet)

• 2+ cups of durian, mashed (about 6 durian pieces) You can also choose to use less (like as little as 2/3 cup) and just mix in less with the batter
  
• 3/4 cup white sugar (more or less depending on how sweet you want it.)
  
• 1 egg
  
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
  

Directions: (Makes 12 muffins)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
   
2. Coat muffin pans with non-stick spray, or use paper liners.
   
3. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
   
4. Set aside part of the durian to use as filling, about 1/2 or 1/3 cup, depending how much you want to put in.
   
5. Combine remaining durian, sugar, egg, and melted butter in a large bowl.
   
6. Fold in flour mixture, and mix just enough until ingredients look mixed. Don't overmix!
   
7. Scoop into muffin liners. Fill them about 1/2 or 2/3 full, add a teaspoon[+] of durian filling to the middle, and then add more of the batter, until it is about 4/5 full.
   
8. Bake in preheated oven. Bake muffins for about 19 minutes (or until toothpick comes out clean.)

Pictures of batch #1 (I think I left them in a couple minutes too long.) and batch #2 below (I guess I could have used a spoon to smooth over the tops of the muffins so they wouldn't look as bumpy.)


I also made banana muffins with durian filling, which turned out well. My brother liked the durian/durian filling muffins the best, but my parents preferred the banana with durian filling.