Muffins Fast and Fantastic - Susan Reimer

It's been awhile since I've written an opinion about something I didn't think was very good, but occasionally an item comes along that just doesn't cut the mustard with me. This book is one of those very occasional items! Now, every week I bake cakes, five or six cakes at that, and no, they're not even for me, they're for other people. I sometimes get to try a piece, but never get to keep a whole cake. And believe me, when you make that many cakes the last thing you want to do is eat one. Anyhoo, I digress... Muffins, Fast and Fantastic 3rd Edition by Susan Reimer, seemed to be the perfect answer to my dilemma ...

This is one of the best and easiest recipe books it has ever been my pleasure to cook from. The book starts off with some excellent notes on muffin making in general and explanations on the results when using other flours/fats etc. There are 30 recipes to choose from with suggestions for many variations. The muffins use much less fat and sugar than traditional recipes so you can indulge without feeling guilty and they are also inexpensive to make. The instructions are clear and very easy to follow, the method couldn’t be simpler you add the wet ingredients to they dry ones, mix, put in tins and then oven baking for approximately 20 minutes, ...

I don't like cooking, I've never enjoyed baking, but I do...like eating. It was my two year old that finally coaxed me into the kitchen to 'make cakes'. Our results always ended up in the bin, but the fun was in the making...until I found this gem of a book in Lakeland Plastics, called Muffins, Fast and Fantastic by Susan Reimer. It's only £3.95 and has over thirty recipes for muffins (the American cake type of muffin, not the English toasting type!). They include; Chocolate (of course), Orange-Carrot spice, Banana, Maple Syrup, Gingerbread, Apple Spice...and many more. The beauty is that a batch only takes about 10 minutes to prepare and ...