Hidden Surprise Muffins

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg, slightly beaten with a fork
• 1 cup milk
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup jelly

Recipe

• 1 grease the bottom only of a 12-cup muffin tin.
• 2 preheat the oven to 400 degrees f.
• 3 in a medium mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
• 4 in a second medium sized bowl, combine the egg, milk, vanilla and vegetable oil.
• 5 make a "well" in the dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients to the well.
• 6 stir until the mixture is moist.
• 7 don't overmix - the batter should be lumpy.
• 8 fill the muffin tins half full.
• 9 now, here is the surprise - drop a teaspoon of jelly into the center of each muffin.
• 10 add more batter on top of the jelly so that each cup is 2/3 full.
• 11 bake for 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown.
• 12 when the muffins are baked there will be a jelly surprise in the middle.