Farmville Muffins

… because inspiration sometimes follows weird ways .

I don’t know how many of you play Farmville on the internet. I used to, until, say, two months ago…then I started a new job, which leaves  a very little time for myself. Anyway, I’m not going to explain you deeply what Farmville is about, the point is that it’s a “virtual farm” where you can grow your own vegetables, fruits…their last invention is that, once you’ve got a certain amount of vegetables, cereals and fruit, you can “bake” them in a “virtual bakery”  to get pies, cookies, muffins…Ok, let’s say that everyone has his own “dark side”
One of those “recipes” is for “Spicy Muffins”, and that’s where my inspiration came from.

Ingredients:
1 cup of rice flour (mine was whole grain, freshly ground with my terrific food processor)
1 cup of millet flour (again, freshly ground)
1 cup of ground carrot
3/4 of a cup of minced red capsicum
3 teaspoon of baking powder
2 tablespoon of olive oil (but you can also use sunflower oil…maybe it’s even better, actually, as I think they’ll come out lighter and more crumbly)
1 teaspoon of salt
1 pinch of paprika
1 tablespoon of water or soy milk or soy yogurt (or more, just check the consistency)

Method:
First, mix all the dry ingredients, except carrots and capsicum. Then, mix wet ingredients – including carrots and capsicum. Now, quickly mix them together and stir as less as you can. Pour the mixture into the muffin molds and bake in preheated oven at 180°C for 15/20 minutes. Let them cool, as they’re fairly crumbly when just removed from the oven. I found them pretty interesting, I loved their texture, which is due to the two flours I’ve chosen: rice and millet are great in this regard,  muffins came out really light and crumbly.

I can’t remember how many muffins I got with these doses, anyway more than the two shown in the pics !

1. Lisa 29 November 2010 at 15:25

   

   This looks excellent!

   
   
2. Petra 29 November 2010 at 18:29

   

   They’re wonderful and very bright! I don’t like capsicum but they’re would be suitable for my dad…I’d add some hot pepper for him too

   
   
3. EleonoraNW3 30 November 2010 at 14:41

   

   Thank you girls

   
   
4. ascanio 1 December 2010 at 15:07

   

   I know Farmville very well, my girlfriend plays it as well! Don’t know whether she “bakes” though… but she could bake them for real