My first savoury muffin

I was thinking how to use up all my left over Cheddar cheese in the fridge, since it going to expire in the month of September. So I went to search for quick and easy recipe that require cheese. I found this interesting savoury muffin recipe in a food blogger web (http://dailydelicious.blogspot.sg/).

Usually what we saw are sweet muffin in the bakery shop and hardly see any savoury muffin. I would like to try out new and interesting recipe but of course it must be within my ability to achieve it. This recipe is a good way for my motive to utilise my cheese and the ham too, being sitting in the freezer and waiting to be vanish.

This two picture is taken from my DSLR camera, just bought it recently and I still trying very hard to learn and understand the function of operating the camera. Finally I accomplished my dream to buy a DSLR camera, it had been in my dreaming shopping list for so long till my compact camera die on me. So I decided to invert my $.$ on a better camera to take more nice nice picture.

Anyway back to the topic of the muffin. When I told my mum that I wanted to bake "cheese and ham muffin" and immediately she pour a basket of cold water on me (泼冷水); hehehee what I meant is she used a lot of discouragement word. She keep specify in her point of view that savoury muffin is awful and unpalatable, trying to forbid me from baking it. But I ignored it and manage to bake out a tray of cheese and ham muffin. Luckily I did it because the taste is pretty good, by the way I omitted the salt as I afraid it will be too salty since the cheese and ham has a hint of saltiness. I like the texture when it just out from the oven and eat it when it is still piping hot. The muffin is not very salty at all but a bit dry and not the moist type. Anyway this is a good recipe, give it a try on savoury muffin today.

*Recipe source:
http://dailydelicious.blogspot.sg/2008/11/ham-and-cheese-muffin-im-sure-you-cant.html

Ingredient:

• 150gm cake flour
• 6gm baking powder
• 1 egg
• 30gm sugar
• 50gm unsalted butter (I change it to 37.5ml olive oil)
• 70ml milk
• Pinch of salt (I omitted)
• 3 slices of ham 
• 50gm cheddar cheese (I bought the ready cut into thin strip cheese pack)

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2. Place the cupcake liners into the muffin pans.
3. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together, set aside.
4. Put the egg and sugar in a bowl and place the bowl over the pan of hot water.
5. With hand mixer beat the egg mixture until very light and fluffy.
6. Gently pour the milk into the egg mixture using spatula fold to combine, then add the oil and fold again.
7. Pour all the rest ingredients (flour mixture, ham and cheese), fold just until they incorporate (do not over mix).
8. Pour the batter into the ready muffin pan.
9. Bake for 25 minutes or until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.