Butterscotch filling pineapple muffins with almond topping

I baked me 1st cake when i was in class 7, My mom is wonderful cook n i guess got cooking inherit from her. She is my 1st cooking teacher. After that i started experimenting more & more. Some time i get very good results or some time disasters. But more impotent thing is you have to be FEARLESS.

Big, bakery-style muffins filling with butterscotch and topped with a sprinkle of almonds.

 

Preparation Time: 20 minutes   |   Baking Time: 20 minutes   |   Serves: 12 servings

Ingredients: 

1. Fine flour- maida-1 1/2 cup
2. Butter one stick-100 gm (salted or white butter both can use)
3. Brown suger- 100 gm
4. Egg- 2 (if small in size use 3)
5. Baking powder- 1/2 tea spoon
6. Baking soda- 1 pinch
7. Salt if its unsalted butter- 1 pinch
8. Butterscotch balls- easily available in market
9. Pineapple essence
10. Almonds- 12-14 pc chopped for sprinkling on top

Method:

Preheat oven to 180°C or 160°, its depend on your oven heating process. Sometime new oven's heating. Place muffin papers or liners in one 12-hole muffin tray. I don't grease them.

First combine all the dry ingredients, flour +baking powder + baking soda and salt. Sift them 1-2 times so it will help to loosens up flour that has been sitting around in storage for a long time, aerating it and helping your baked goods to have a lighter texture.

Unwrap the butter and heat it in the microwave, in a microwave-safe bowl, for about a minute, until it's thoroughly melted. Set it aside at room temperature to cool, but don't let it solidify again.

I love to use brown sugar in cakes and muffins, its give u good texture and light sweet taste. I generally grind the sugar in advance to use, it will save your time.

Beat the eggs in a separate bowl about 5-6 min until become fluffy and double in size then add the sugar beat about 1 min. Add butter and Pineapple essence to the eggs and beat about 1 min.

Now its time to put all the dry ingredients in liquid ingredients and mix no more than ten seconds. If you see visibly lumpy, and you may see pockets of dry flour, That's OK! It's extremely important not to overmix the batter, or the resulting muffins will be too hard. Better to fold the batter by rubber spatula properly to smooth batter.

 Butterscotch Balls

Gently pour the batter into the prepared muffin pan. Now after pouring the batter tap the pan 2-3 time to set the batter. Put butterscotch balls about to 7-8 piece in the center of each muffin batter and cover it.

Sprinkling the chopped almonds on each muffin batter and bake immediately.

Bake 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.

Texture would be soft, butterscotch would melt inside the muffin.