Really Simple (albeit short & stubby) Popovers

Made these this past weekend (9/7/09) because it seemed too easy to be true, and others had rated it well on Recipezaar. They came out eggy and ... well, plain, but that's why you add butter and honey or jam or whatever you want. Also made 10 popovers in a regular muffin pan (the recipe poster made "big, tall" ones.

I don't know why I left the knives in this pic. ::sigh:: I plan on starting a baking blog with just clean, clear, wonderful pictures (like THIS BLOG--holy cow!), but we'll see if that ever happens.

They came out pretty good (and well). Too bad I don't have a popover pan. Muffin pans are good enough though. Don't forget to put water in the empty muffin cups if you don't have enough batter (prevents pan from warping).


The bottoms had big dents in them:


POPOVER RECIPE (original here -- pretty much the same as below except for baking time):

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

1. Break eggs in bowl
2. Add milk, flour, & salt
3. Mix well with a spoon (original recipe says to disregard the lumps, but I ended up with little lumps of flour in my baked popovers!
4. Fill greased popover pans or muffin tins ¾ full
5. Put in oven
6. Set oven to 450 and turn on heat *YES--start with a cold oven!!*
7. Bake 30 minutes-ish. I used a regular-sized muffin pan, and so these were done in about 20 min. The person who posted this recipe made six jumbo ones.

More Bierocks

Made some more bierocks (3rd time?)!! This time they were for my parents, brother, and grandparents, and I made the full recipe (still dunno where the original came from) this time (I used to cut everything in half because the recipe makes a lot). Pictured below is JUST batch #2 from a couple of weeks ago: the experiments. Most had the ground beef + cabbage filling, but some had cheese in them. YUM! They're also good with chocolate.

NOTE: I always have way too much meat when I make these. You'd think I'd have learned by now. Read the easy recipe here.

Bread Pudding Muffins

Baked on 3/8/09 for the third Psi Chi study group (they're not cookies, but we had Oreos there too).

These are really easy to make (recipe below). The most complicated part is cutting the bread slices into cubes. Haha.





Soak time!:



I know...switching between flash & no-flash makes the coloring inconsistent, but the flash version of this pic didn't reveal the texture very well:


I hadn't baked in ages!

Original recipe here.
Here's the recipe I used:
* Changes I made:
1) 2% milk instead of non-fat -- yeah...I usually only use non-fat, but I had extra from the first
Psi Chi Cookies 'n' Cram study group thing, which was a failure)
2) Chocolate chips instead of raisins

• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 2 tablespoons melted butter
  
• 4 egg whites
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 12 slices whole wheat bread (diced into 1/2-inch cubes)
• 2/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (I used Guittard)
  
  Directions:
  
  1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  2) Spray a standard-size muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray
  3) Combine all ingredients but the bread and chocolate chips in a large bowl and mix well
  4) Stir in the bread and chocolate chips and let soak for 5 minutes
  5) Mound the mixture into each of the 12 sprayed muffin tins
  6) Bake for about 30-ish minutes or until firm and nicely browned
  7) Cool on a wire rack