Mega Muffin 2
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A giant chocolate-chip muffin baked in a bargain tin, with the original account documenting a crust problem and the attempt to rescue the bake.
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- Cost: a Massive Muffin pan for 99p and cheap Lidl chocolate at 4 x 38p; everything else was already in the flat. The usual 12-bun muffin pan filled the giant pan twice over, so a chocolate chip muffin recipe was doubled: 510g plain flour, 6 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon of salt, 300g sugar, 2 eggs, 480ml milk, 170g butter and 170g chocolate. The giant case was greased and the fan oven warmed at 200C. The melted butter went into the flour, the batter was mixed, poured into the lined pan and baked. The oven was too hot: a crust formed and stopped the muffin rising, so the crust was sliced open and the oven turned down, with no new setting given, checking every 20 mins or so. It was cooked through 40 mins after the initial half hour, sank only a little when removed, and most of the chocolate had vanished. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7 · Source 8 · Source 9 · Source 10 · Source 11
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The original account
First things first you need The T-shirt, a birthday present
Cost:
Massive Muffin Pan – 99p
Cheapo Lidl’s chocolate – 4 x 38p
Everything else we had in the flat anyway – so effectively free.
I’d already done the science bit and work out that my usual 12 bun muffin pan filled my super-pimped out muffin pan twice over so it was a simple case of doubling up the recipe. I choose chocolate chip muffins because there seemed little that could go wrong.
That included:
510g plain flour (by the pimpest baker in the world – My main man, Fred [WormellaPimp2b.jpg] – Just look at that hat!)
6 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
300g sugar
2 eggs
480ml milk
170g butter
170g Chocolate
The Stuff
Pimped up kit, the trusty Kenwood – also a birthday present and finally some idea of what to do:
The Pimped-out Massive Muffin case was greased. Since it came from the 99p shop I wasn’t 100% sure it would survive the oven but never mind. The oven’s fan heated so I stuck it on at 200C to warm up.
First enough butter to kill a small child, melted and added to stupid amounts of Fred’ Phatest Flour
Mixed in the trust Kenwood
and poured into the lined Massive Muffin Pan
And into the oven
and then we waited….
.. And the disaster struck!!!
The oven was too hot!! A crust had formed and it stopped it from rising like a proper muffin should have. Emergency action was called for and the crust was sliced open, hoping it would let the muffin rise. The oven was turned down and I resumed watching day time telly, checking on the Massive Muffin every 20mins or so.
Finally – 40mins after the initial half hour cooking time: it was cooked through. And it only sank a little when it was carefully removed from the Massive Muffin Pan
A managed to hack a fair chunk out – I was hungry after all this.
To show you not only was it cooked though, but magically the majority of the chocolate had vanished. I think it’s fair to say Lidl’s finest isn’t quality cooking materials.
Last but not least I have a reference picture – note the size of the shot glass… Note the size of Massive Muffin
