I made various loaves today and used my Muffin Top pans. One loaf recipe makes 12 muffin tops....scooped out batter is 1/4 cup baked at 20 minutes....and Voila!!
The muffin tops are a little more unique than a muffin. The pans are outrageously expensive...kitchen shops...almost 30 buckeroos. Freeze the muffin tops individually in sandwich baggies. Clean and no crumbs. Makes a nice snack for work, or for kids without thawing out a whole loaf. Easier to microwave if you want it warm with butter. The best thing with these is that they are flat and easier to freeze without taking much room in your freezer. Or freeze them in seperate boxes in the freezer and one day you can have apple, one day pumpkin, next day banana chocolate chip. These are from Brandy's Black Bottomed Banana Bread recipe( September) and I omitted the cocoa powder and just made them light. These are nice quick treats for coworkers too.
Also makes a nice Christmas gift in a nice Christmas box which I didn't have .
Dollar store has these cool thermal bags that I freeze stuff in to avoid freezer burn. This bag holds 12 muffin tops.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip and Raisins Loaf
1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon Pumpkin spice
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
¾ teaspoon salt
½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 cup pumpkin pie filling(E.D. Smith..540 ml)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup milk
¾ cup mixed chocolate chips and raisins
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 9 x 5 1/2 metal loaf pan. Sift first 5 ingredients into a bowl. In another bowl beat butter, sugar and eggs until smooth. Beat in pumpkin and vanilla. The pumpkin pie filling already has spices and sugar, so I used my sugar sparingly as you don’t want it overly sweet. Beat in dry ingredients alternately with milk. Stir in chocolate chips and raisins, or nuts if you prefer. You can use ½ cup of chips and ½ cup nuts or raisins if you want more of these in your loaf. Put batter in loaf pan and bake for 55 minutes. Cool and freeze or dig right in to it with butter.
A 540 ml. Pumpkin pie filling will give you filling for two loaves. You can use pumpkin puree if you like,,,just bump up the pumpkin pie spice to ½ teaspoons, and sugar from 1 cup to 1 ½ cups.
A 540 ml. Pumpkin pie filling will give you filling for two loaves. You can use pumpkin puree if you like,,,just bump up the pumpkin pie spice to ½ teaspoons, and sugar from 1 cup to 1 ½ cups.
That's awesome that you can make muffin tops out of a loaf recipe - I'll try that this weekend! Cranbran
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