The horrible start of an aspiring muffin master

Read and weep as I share another episode of the antics of Playfulfoodie.

If you've been following my blog for a while now, you might already know that I usually try to avoid refined sugar. I had not used it in any of my baking projects for over a year and even after that, I only made one exception: My apple pie.

Lately though, I have been thinking I should just ignore that goal now and then. I've especially been craving a very regular pound cake. I have yet to make it though, but today, I was thinking about muffins. Oh yes, today I set a high goal: To be a muffin master, with sugar!

First things first: a good form for my muffins. Ideally one that can spin around in my oven. See, I have a big muffin/cupcake form, but it just sits in one place in the oven the entire time. I have to turn it around halfway through, but even then, none of them come out equally well baked. Oh no, my oven needs things to keep on spinning around.

My solution was a simple one: Use the silicon muffin forms I have and line them with paper muffin forms. That way, I could just spread them out on my round oven tray.

Next, I needed a good recipe! So I asked my trusted friend Google to help me out with this. I came across the Dutch Laura's Bakery basic muffin recipe and figured I'd give that a try. Sugar and all!

So I spread my muffin forms out on the tray and lined them with the paper forms. I grabbed my ingredients and started mixing them all together. I figured I'd fill half of the cups with the regular recipe and add some cinnamon to the rest.

I filled all of my forms and put them in the oven.

That was easy enough!

Seeing as I'm still feeling like crap and have close to zero energy today, I quickly reacquainted myself with today's best friend: the couch. I lay down for a couple of minutes, after which I exclaimed "Oh no!".

But oh yes, it had indeed happened. I had completely forgotten the sugar!

Now sugarless in itself doesn't have to be bad, as long as you use a replacement! I had not done such a thing. Oh no, on this zero energy day, where I defied nature and got to baking anyway, I had simply forgotten the sweet ingredient alltogether.

My poor boyfriend had to look at my sad and pouty face while I just kept whining to him about my bad luck and stupidity.

Aside from the obvious mistake, I also noticed that my nasty muffins were all blown inwards. I guess that's from the oven's airflow.

The oven beeped and with a sad face, I opened it up to take out my muffins, already knowing they would taste horrible. And indeed they did. They tasted like dough. Plain and simple dough. If it were lunch time, I would have served them with cream and jam and pretended they were not-so-sweet scones. Sadly, it wasn't lunch time, so they are now sitting on my kitchen island, not being used at all.

What a waste of perfectly good ingredients. Also, what a waste of what little energy I had build up by lying on the couch most of the day.

Oh well, atleast I know my silicon muffin forms work well this way. Let's just say I'm one step closer to becoming that muffin master!

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