Menu Plan Monday – Easy Muffin Recipe

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Each week I aim to bake a treat for the school lunch boxes. This week I am making on request White Chocolate Chip Muffins. This is such an easy muffin recipe to make that my children can actually do it by themselves. It does help that we have been making this muffin recipe for years, but it is very simple and very tasty.

This easy muffin recipe is also very versatile and can provide a base for many other types of muffins, for example:

omit the white choc chips and include berries of your choice

add orange juice and rind instead of vanilla essence, then poppy seeds instead of white choc chips

add banana and choc chips and so on.

I have also included the recipe as a word document further down in the menu plan; this makes it easier to print it out if you want to add it to your recipe collection.

White Chocolate Chip Muffins

Ingredients:
2 cups self raising flour
½ – ¾ cup caster sugar (I think it was actually ¾ but I always reduce it to about ½ cup)
¾ cup milk
½ cup canola oil
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
1 cup white choc chips (if large chips chop roughly first)

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees
2. Sift flour and sugar into a bowl. Mix and make a well in the middle.
3. In a separate bowl mix the remaining ingredients (except choc chips).
4. Pour the liquid ingredients into well and mix with a wooden spoon. Muffins are best when made quickly and not over mixed.
5. Add choc chips and mix lightly through.
6. Spoon into well greased muffin pans or patty pans in muffin tray
7. Cooking time depends on the size and oven, but 12 -15 minutes is about average for the standard patty pan size.

Here is the shopping list for this week’s menu plan: 081124 Family Weekly Menu Plan Shopping List

And here is this week’s menu plan:

Monday: Pasta Bake

Baking: White Chocolate Chip Muffins

Tuesday: Left Overs

Wednesday: Pasta Carbonara

Thursday: Marinated Steak and Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Friday: Sausages and Salad

Saturday: BBQ

Sunday: Chicken Schnitzel and Steamed Vegetables

For more menu planning ideas head on over to Laura’s place at “I’m an Organizing Junkie“.

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