Oh, Muffin Top! It has at least two meanings to me. I am thinking of how one was directly related to the other for me tonight. I have a compulsion to please... as you may have read in an earlier blog. And because of the nature of my business the pleasure medium I tend to work in is food. So how I got involved with muffins is a short story that has to do with a Business Leads group that I am involved with. Fox Valley Business Connections is the name of it, and we have been meeting in a location that does not have a cafeteria. So 20-25 people meet at 7:30am in the morning on Tuesdays and have no breakfast unless someone buys it and brings it.
So how does that involve me you ask? I of course volunteered to make something to bring. No, i didn't say BUY something to bring. It is against my genetic make up to BUY breakfast food. I make breakfast food, I just can't seem to help it. SO I racked my brain and came up muffins as the perfect solution. Now I'm not talking about an Otis Spunkemeyer type of muffin. I believe that if you are going to spend the time to make something at home, there should be one of three reasons: 1. It tastes better. 2. It is WAY cheaper or 3. It is WAY healthier. Now when you are talking about a "cupcake type muffin" theirs probably would TASTE better, but when I make a muffin, it is CRAZY cheaper, and WAY healthier. So I dug around for a good recipe online and found a recipe called "Easy Oatmeal Muffin" that got great reviews. So I'm off to the kitchen! A couple weeks ago I woke up at 6am and made these muffins (you know the ones with great reviews?) and they totally taste BLAH. I had no time to make something else, so I brought them anyway and everyone was very kind. They not only were bland, but the top was flat. They did not "crown" like a good looking muffin does! I'm not sure why, but I volunteered to make muffins again, (maybe to redeem myself?) and they all said "GREAT!" which makes me think they have either no tastebuds, or they are just all really cheap and don't want to buy breakfast... so I agreed again!
Now this time, I am not messing with the oatmeal recipe. I'm making the tried and true Zucchini bread muffin recipe that is delicious and I have made many times. Because of my weight watchers way though I half the fat and do a substitute of flax seed meal. (Can't help it). AND I have a lot of people so I better double the recipe. So it's 10:30pm and I decided, I will make these now, instead of getting up at 6am and I researched how to make the Muffin crown properly so I'm ready to try it out! I am so excited as I take out these perfectly crowned muffins and I thought, well, I better taste one... BLAH! They are not sweet at all. I just realized I didn't double the sugar! UG. I had already put ALL the muffins in the oven and so I start taking them out and sprinkling sugar all over them and then I rolled them in sugar etc. And now my kitchen is covered in sugar. So sadly I ate 3 of them testing them with cinnamon butter, a cinnamon/sugar glaze...and rolled in sugar. I bet you have guessed where the second Muffin Top comes in.... feeling fat, I am heading to bed. And I will just apologize now for the beautiful but odd low sugar, low fat muffins, drenched in sugar on the outside... Seriously I have got to stop baking.
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