In Honor of Banana Bread Day

[multipurposegoddess]

I skipped over to July in The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide to make Banana Cupcakes (Apam Misang). I didn't add the nuts or coconut, because I didn't have any coconut and toasting nuts seemed like too much trouble, so I guess these were the simplest form. Also, the recipe says it'll make 8 and I only made 5, though I'm pretty sure the muffin cups I used are standard sized. Even so, delish, will make again. Pretty easy and straightforward, the only difficulty was that I still haven't found my pot with the steam insert, which the recipe calls for, so I used a bamboo steamer. Which worked fine, but getting the batter-filled cups into the steamer without spillage was dicey where using the steamer insert would have been simple.

Comments

[fatoudust]

I find this to be the case with muffins almost all the time. Who is measuring them? Are they using tiny tiny muffin pans? Because I almost always need to double up a recipe if I want to fill my tins.

[multipurposegoddess]

Huh. I accidentally got some tiny standalone muffin cups a while back and was annoyed that they weren't labeled as tiny, maybe they are actually standard and what we think is standard is giant? But my regular muffins don't seem giant compared to the giant muffins at Starbuck's, etc. I don't know what to think!

The banana cupcakes, though, are equally good as cold leftovers as fresh from the steamer. Nom. Got me to thinking, what's the difference between a muffin and cupcake? If you put lemon blueberry pound cake batter into muffin tins and baked it, would you get muffins or cupcakes?

[fatoudust]

I don't know! I don't think there's any difference, really. I guess it's all eat a muffin whitey hairsplitting!