the coming of autumn

the blazing days of summer has finally decided to call it a day or season rather and autumn makes her appearance without much fanfare as the pages on the calender flips and flutters through august. with apples of different kinds appearing in the market, i decided to bake something with the flavour of autumn; apple muffins with raisins.

i was hoping to get myself recipe book from kino last thursday but i ended up leaving the bookstore with nothing new in my bag. a search on yahoo and flickr also yielded nothing great of an apple muffin recipe, so i decided its time for some trial and error with luck thrown in too. looking at my blueberry and banana muffin recipes i constructed my recipe based on what i want my muffin to taste like.

with diced apples tossed with brown sugar, a generous heap of cinnamon and a dash of nutmeg, everything seemed autumny enough except that i forgot to stir in a tablespoon or two of amber coloured honey. the batter was seemingly over filling with apple and raisins that it makes spooning into individual muffin liners more tedious.

while ending off with slices of apple, i forgot to mention that the raisins are soaked in rum and vanilla flavoured vodka. the muffins came out of the oven looking surrisingly good and there's that factor of rugged beauty that suits autumn to the tee. well i guess with trial and error comes more trial and error, the muffin needs more apple taste and i have just the ingredients in mind for the next batch.