The original theme of my blog was supposed to be cultural foods that I would bake and share with people and ones that have some sort of significance to me except these are just simple muffins. Cute tiny little muffins! 

Mini muffins! I would say my favorite type of baked good would be anything cinnamon flavored. So, I decided on cinnamon muffins! I was going to hang out with one of my friends after school and someone had to de-car so we decided she would and then I decided

mini muffins!

 I would bake us breakfast except that kind of backfired. 

I’m working on making myself eat breakfast because I tend to skip it every day so I thought muffins would be a good motivator. 

I saw this at Jewel and thought it was nasty

However, I couldn’t find a muffin tin so I asked my mom to buy one. The problem was when she called me, I was sleeping so I just agreed to whatever she was saying. So, when I came to, each little muffin thing was literally only an inch in diameter. It was then I decided I would just hand out mini muffins because I didn’t want to do my homework anyway.

It was around like 6 pm when I got up and I realized we had no brown sugar so I had to go out and get that! I have a terrible sense of direction and realized I was going the wrong way so I ended up going to a Jewel Osco that was twice as far as it should have been. 

Anyway, I get home and it’s muffin time!! Since I decided on a streusel one I had to make that fun little dry mixture first and my god this was more annoying than it should have been. This was the only reason I had to go out to get the stupid brown sugar. Streusel is just a mixture of melted butter, sugar, salt, flour, and cinnamon. I used a fork to mix it together and it became kind of like a clumpy sand texture. Then I got to the actual muffin part but I can’t find the recipe I used. Another thing I don’t understand is why there’s always this whole life story in every recipe. I feel like if it has that big of a significance to you isn’t it kind of a bad idea to share it on the internet?

I’ve made muffins in Senior Foods once and that turned out wildly terrible because someone didn’t add in the baking powder or preheated the oven so that turned out into a rubbery mess. But in the comforts of my own home, I say my batter turned out fine! But it was a really weird texture? I kind of thought it would be more like a cake batter but it was like a really thick pancake batter and I had so many mixed feelings about that. With the batter and streusel done it was time to get to the actual assembly! This was by far the worst part of my entire night. First off I had only one pan which makes like 12(?) muffins at a time but you also have to remember it was the size of maybe a ping pong ball. 

I also didn’t have mini muffin liners so I decided to go the fancy way and use parchment paper to make the nice-looking wrappers and this also made my entire day harder. Since the tin was tiny the parchment paper wouldn’t stay in place and would fling out of the divot every time I tried. I also had the spoon the thick batter in and that would stick to the paper pull it out and then I would have to sprinkle some of that streusel and then put even more batter and then it would stick again. I was thinking about giving up and finding a way to make normal-sized muffins but the tiny ones were too hard to resist. In the end, I just put the batter into a piping bag and life was easy again.

I didn’t take pictures but here’s one Grace sent me

Except the tin would only make 12 so I had to repeat that process Four! More! Separate! Times! 

They turned out really really cute though. I also had little treat bags left over from when I made cake pops for Valentine’s day so that was fun!

Thanks to Shao for letting me borrow a tote bag for the second time to hold all my muffins. 

I also would to thank the people who ate them for trusting me! Giving my baked treats to people make the pain all worth it. I hope you guys enjoyed the little muffins! I’m debating on what I should make next.