Peanut Butter Muffins

Golden Butterfly Bakers offers you this recipe from their non-profit bakery. Though peanut butter muffins are not currently in the rotation of muffin varieties they send to their recipients, it’s one they’ve used before and will make on occasion. Their volunteers love these.

Peanut Butter Muffins (with Suggested Add-Ins)

Ingredients:

·      2 cups flour (240 g)

·      ½ tsp salt

·      2 tsp. baking powder

·      2/3 cup creamy peanut butter (we use Jif in our kitchen), (180 g)

·      2/3 cup unsalted butter at room temperature (we use Plugra butter)

·      2/3 cup brown sugar (143 g)

·      2 large eggs

·      1 cup milk

·      ½ cup peanut butter chips

Suggested Add-Ins:

·      2 tsp jam or jelly of your choice makes Peanut Butter & Jelly muffins

·      1 Hershey Kiss makes Peanut Butter Blossom muffins

·      Chopped up Reese’s peanut butter cups makes Peanut Butter & Chocolate muffins

Directions:

Makes 12-16 muffins, depending on the size of your muffin tins

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F
2. Spray your muffin tin and set aside
3. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder
4. Use the paddle attachment in a stand mixer, cream the peanut butter, butter, and brown sugar. When it is creamy and smooth, add the eggs and milk and continue to beat the ingredients together until they are thoroughly combined.
5. Add the dry ingredients and mix until they are just incorporated, then fold in the peanut butter chips.
6. Fill the muffin tins about half-way with the muffin batter. Then put in your add-ins. (For example, add 2 tsps of the jam or jelly of your choice to make peanut butter & jelly muffins.) Fill with the remaining batter but leave a little room at the top. Ideally you want each to be about ¾ of the way full.
7. Bake in the 375 degree oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Check with a toothpick. When it comes out clean (no batter), it’s done.
8. Let cool for five minutes in the muffin tins, then remove to a cooling rack.
9. The muffins are delicious whether you choose to use add-ins or not. One further note: If you mix in chopped up Reese’s peanut butter cups, do it in step 5 and eliminate step 6. The chocolate and peanut butter chunks will then be spread throughout the muffins.