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In the berry picking season, many will be pleased with the currant cake, which is distinguished by the tenderness of a biscuit and the bright taste of black and red fruits.
Secrets of making currant muffins
In order to get an airy, tender cake with red or black currants, you need to knead the dough correctly - spend a minimum of time moving upward from the bottom of the container and, at the same time, not forgetting about accuracy. Moreover, it is necessary to obtain the consistency of thick sour cream or condensed milk.
When baking a dessert, you should not open the oven too often, as such an action threatens the biscuit to fall off. After the biscuit is cooked, it is recommended to let it rest for 10-15 minutes, so that later there will be no difficulties with removing the dessert from the mold.
For the described biscuit, both fresh and frozen or even dried berries are suitable. If during the preparation of the dessert currants were used that had previously been in the freezer, then baking will take a little longer.
Also, red or black currants must be sorted out before the process of preparing the dessert: there should be no rotten berries, moldy fruits, insects, leaves and branches.
In addition, some bakers advise to roll the berries in flour or starch when preparing baked goods, which will help to avoid the "moisture" effect that occurs due to the leaking fruit juice.
Currant muffin recipes with photo
For bakers interested in a recipe for making black or red currant muffins with a photo, below are the most delicious and popular ones.
Frozen currant muffin
Many people will love the classic cake recipe with frozen black or red currants, which will require:
- egg - 3 pcs.;
- granulated sugar - 135 g;
- milk - 50 ml;
- butter - 100 g;
- vanillin - 1 sachet;
- currants - 150 g;
- icing sugar - 40 g;
- flour - 180 g;
- baking powder for dough (soda) - 1 tsp;
- starch - 10 g.
Cooking method
- A mixture of eggs, sugar, vanillin must be beaten with a mixer until a white fluffy mass is obtained.
- Softened butter at room temperature is added to the resulting mixture and also beaten with a mixer for 5 minutes.
- Then add flour, baking powder to the egg-oil mass and mix at low speeds.
- Then milk is poured into the dough, the resulting mixture is mixed with a spoon or spatula.
- The frozen berries should be left at room temperature for 5-10 minutes, and then rolled in flour and added to the prepared dough.
- A baking dish is greased with oil and sprinkled with flour. Shake off the rest of the flour. Then the mixture prepared for the dessert is placed in a baking dish.
- The dessert is baked in an oven at a temperature of 160-170ºC for 50-60 minutes. The product is allowed to rest for 10 minutes, and then removed from the mold and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
A similar recipe can be seen at this link:
Chocolate muffin with currants
To prepare a delicate currant biscuit with the addition of cocoa powder, you need to prepare:
- egg - 3 pcs.;
- granulated sugar - 200 g;
- milk - 120 ml;
- vegetable oil - 120 g;
- vanillin - 1 sachet;
- berry - 250 g;
- cocoa - 50 g;
- flour - 250 g;
- baking powder for dough (soda) - 5 g;
- starch - 8 g.
Cooking method
- Beat three eggs with a mixer in a bowl until light yellow.
- Granulated sugar is gradually added to the egg mass and also beaten with a mixer.
- After the egg-sugar mass begins to resemble condensed milk in consistency, milk is gradually poured into a bowl, without ceasing to work as a mixer, and all the components are mixed.
- Still without turning off the mixer, you need to add vegetable oil and mix.
- Mix flour, cocoa, vanillin and baking powder in a separate container.
- Pour the dry mixture into the egg-oil mass through a sieve and mix thoroughly until smooth.
- The berry deboned in starch is added to the dough and mixed.
- The prepared dough is placed in a mold, in which parchment paper was previously lined.
- The muffins with black or red currants are baked in the oven at 180ºC for 40-90 minutes, depending on the doneness. After baking, allow to rest for 10-15 minutes, remove from the mold and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
The described chocolate-currant dessert can be prepared using this video:
Kefir muffins with currants
Currant muffins can be cooked with kefir. This will make your pastries even more tender and airy. For this dessert you will need:
- egg - 3 pcs.;
- kefir - 160 g;
- granulated sugar - 200 g;
- berry - 180 g;
- flour - 240 g;
- butter - 125 g;
- baking powder for dough - 3 g.
Cooking method
- It is necessary to knead the butter with granulated sugar, then add the eggs and beat the resulting mass with a mixer.
- Then you should pour kefir, mix with a mixer.
- Next, baking powder or soda is added and also mixed. After that, you need to pour flour, beat thoroughly with a mixer so that there are no lumps, and the dough in consistency resembles thick sour cream.
- Then the prepared red or black berries should be poured into the dough.
- The prepared baking mixture is poured into silicone or parchment molds and baked in the oven at 180ºC for half an hour. Then the baked goods are allowed to rest for ten minutes and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
This recipe is demonstrated in the video:
Curd cake with black currant
Many will be amazed by their tenderness currant biscuit with the addition of soft cottage cheese. They require:
- egg - 4 pcs.;
- butter - 180 g;
- cottage cheese - 180 g;
- flour - 160 g;
- granulated sugar - 160 g;
- potato starch - 100 g;
- soda - 3 g;
- baking powder for dough - 5 g;
- black currant - 50 g.
Cooking method
- Mash butter with granulated sugar.
- Then add cottage cheese and mix the mass with a spoon or spatula.
- After that, one by one, add eggs to the mass and beat with a mixer.
- Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, vanillin and potato starch in a separate container.
- The dry mixture is gradually poured into an egg-oil mixture and thoroughly mixed with a spatula or spoon.
- A berry is added to the dough, and the mixture is laid out in a mold greased with butter or vegetable oil. The dessert is baked in the oven at 180ºC for 40-50 minutes. After cooking, the cake with currants in a silicone mold should rest for 10 minutes, then sprinkle with powdered sugar.
The step-by-step recipe can also be seen in the video:
Calorie content of currant muffins
Currant cake is not a dietary dish. The calorie content of such baked goods varies between 250-350 kilocalories, depending on the recipe. About half of all calories are carbohydrates, 20-30% are fats, and such a dish contains very little protein - 10% or less.
Conclusion
Cupcake with currants is a delicate, airy dessert with a pleasant sourness that will win everyone's heart. Red or black currants in this dish also became a source of vitamin C needed by many, which makes the dessert with this berry not only very tasty, but also healthy.But like any baked goods, this dessert can lead to excess weight if consumed excessively, so it is important to keep track of the amount eaten.
