Always happy to have a new project to focus on, I decided a week or two ago that the next big thing should be a muffin ebook. Everyone loves muffins, right? They’re dead easy to make, with so many potential flavors and textures- It should be a smash hit! Sounds fool-proof… Although I proved to be the fool this time. Maybe I’ve temporarily lost my baking mojo, but muffins are just not my thing it seems. After dozens of batches, not all were disastrous, but they were still only edible at best. So, there will be no muffin ebook. There will, however, be plenty of muffin porn. Just think about adapting your favorite muffin recipe to incorporated these ideas, if they sound good to you.
Matcha Latte Muffins
Sweet Potato Cranberry Muffins
Double Chocolate Black Bean Muffins
Superfood Muffins (With blueberries, walnuts, oats, quinoa, orange juice, and flaxseeds)
Fresh Tomato and Corn Muffins
Any Flavor Jam Muffins
Banana Split Muffins (With chocolate chips and cherries)
As much as it pains me to simply put this project to bed, unfinished, I’d much sooner release an ebook entitled “One Hundred of Hannah’s Worst Recipes!” There will surely be more ebooks to come… But almost certainly not one all about muffins. I think I’ll leave that one for people who actually wake up in time for breakfast to figure out.
March 4, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Girl, you NEVER create bad recipes!! You’re so modest, haha :-D
March 4, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Can I have one for breakfast?? o(^.^)O
March 4, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Sorry that project didn’t pan out, Hannah! But I admire you for making the tough decision to stop – I have a bad habit of forging ahead in the face of all evidence telling me to stop!
March 4, 2009 at 2:09 pm
All of them look delicious! If you have the chance, check my salty muffins recipe at the blog too ;o)
March 4, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Awww, sadness! I look forward to your next endeavor. :)
March 4, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Wow ! Some of these sound really delicious, Hannah. I really love muffins – easy to make and so portable ! Maybe it was the wrong time for the project, but if you change your mind in the future, I’ll definitely be interested in the eBook. Thanks for sharing your ideas anyway. Good luck with your next project !
March 4, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Bummer! Well, they sure look good!
March 4, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Well, they still look great!
March 4, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I find it hard to believe you can create a bad recipe! I would totally eat them all! haha
March 4, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Matcha latte muffins sound divine. What could go wrong in the muffin baking? were they too dense? Don’t give up, baking can be tricky-especially vegan baking. I’m sure you are already aware of that but never give up!!
March 4, 2009 at 2:43 pm
man it’s hard to believe that those muffins weren’t good.
the superfoods one looks like my cuppa!
March 4, 2009 at 2:46 pm
I would gladly eat your muffins, they look delicious!
March 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Sorry it didn’t work out for you (this time), Hannah! BUT your photos were lovely!
~ingrid
March 4, 2009 at 3:29 pm
They look great to me, Hannah! I love that teapot in the first photo – just gorgeous! Maybe not a muffin book, but you’ll come up with something!
March 4, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Oh darn! Sorry it didn’t work out. They look really good. And the black bean one is very intriguing.
March 4, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Ooh..couldn’t belive that I just found your blog, right now, these flavors of muffin make me crave for lots of muffin now :)
March 4, 2009 at 4:59 pm
It’s cool to see you admit that the muffin beat you – they still all look good though, and I especially like the sound of the superfood muffins – that’s the kind of thing I’d try to sell to my sceptical six-year old for breakfast!
March 4, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Certainly these aren’t as bad as you’ve revealed. They look incredible, and I’m pretty sure you never have kitchen disasters.
March 4, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I love muffins! Each one of those look AMAZING!!!!!
March 4, 2009 at 5:54 pm
You read my mind! Muffins are so verstile, grab and go, fun to create and delicious, one of my all time fav. breakfast/snack foods… all of these creations sound (and look) amazing! What do you mean by “Hannah’s worst” ? I CAN’T WAIT to buy THIS E-book!!! :D
March 4, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Well, the muffin porn is pretty darn great! I love the look of the tomato corn muffins. Mmm savory!
March 4, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I have not had luck with muffins either…but at least yours are prettier than mine!
March 4, 2009 at 9:22 pm
These look awesome … Especially the sweet potato ones. Mmmmm!
March 4, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Looks like it would have been a great ebook! I think you’re too critical of yourself. At least I can’t imagine you producing too many *disasters*.
March 4, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Muffin Mania indeed!!! The chocolate black bean creations boggle my mind, brilliant! Everything looks fantastic :)
March 4, 2009 at 10:16 pm
These look too, too good- I feel a sudden urge to make hundreds of muffins! How was the banana split? It sounds amaaaazing.
March 4, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Sorry the eBook didn’t work out. But on the bright side, I work at a local bookstore, and I sold your cookbook “My Sweet Vegan” tonight! I even told the girl to check out your blog! So even though there will be no muffin eBook (for now! I have faith!), you’re still passing on your wonderful recipes to the world! And the muffin porn is amazing, btw.
March 5, 2009 at 1:37 am
All of these muffins look delicous, and I’d be happy to have the recipe for any of them!
March 5, 2009 at 6:13 am
Well, isn’t this just the cruelest?! hahaha. I’m sorry it didn’t work out, Hannah.
March 5, 2009 at 7:45 am
Just ordered My Sweet Vegan book ;o)
March 5, 2009 at 8:14 am
It’s a shame they didn’t work out because they all look and sound great!
March 5, 2009 at 8:14 am
I love muffins too, but I have also been known to struggle with making any of them look as good as they are supposed to. As it turned out I was treating the dough the same way as I did with cupcakes, but for muffins the opposite is true. If you stir the dough too much the muffins will not come out right. They should be light and fluffy, too much stirring means hard and unedible, plus they don’t rise so good anymore. You probably know this already, but I just thought I mention in, just in case you didn’t!
March 5, 2009 at 8:15 am
They look and sound wonderful! I hope you will post some anyways! :D
I hope to buy all your e-books soon!
March 5, 2009 at 9:17 am
waving hi at you. been forever, it seems.
March 5, 2009 at 9:48 am
I am SUPER curious about the superfood muffins??? (i’ve recently discovered I love quinoa!) Any chance you can give us a peak at that recipe?? :D
March 5, 2009 at 10:11 am
So wait… you’re going to hold out on the Sweet Potato Cranberry Muffins and Double Chocolate Black Bean muffins?! :)
March 5, 2009 at 11:36 am
I’m sorry your muffin project didn’t work out! Which I sort of can’t believe because those you posted look super-fantastic!
March 5, 2009 at 12:57 pm
It’s so hard to believe that the amazing photos are of unsatisfactory muffins! They look really good, and all the best for the next project you decide to embark on. We’ll be waiting. :) x
March 5, 2009 at 1:14 pm
They look great!
Sorry that they didn’t live up to your expectations…
March 5, 2009 at 1:30 pm
well…they all LOOK amazing!
March 5, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Oh man, I was very excited when I read the beginning of your post…I guess it’s proof that none of us are perfect! I do love muffins so, but the texture and right amount of moisture can be really hard to achieve in vegan muffins. I’ve even so many really inedible ones, even from companies that make otherwise really tasty vegan baked goods. I have yet to produce the perfect vegan blueberry muffin, which is my favorite.
March 5, 2009 at 4:20 pm
aLL THESE MUFFINS LOOK DELICIOUS. THE ONE WITH THE CHOCOLATE AND BLACK BEANS LOOKS REALLY INTERESTING :)
March 6, 2009 at 3:11 am
Sorry your muffin adventure did not turn out how you had hoped. :(
March 6, 2009 at 6:03 am
Ahh! Don’t you hate it when you feel you’ve lost your baking mojo? Or just your cooking mojo in general in my case. That happens to me every so often and it drives me crazy. I just want to sit on the floor in my kitchen a cry like a big baby. It’s usually only a temporary state though ;)
March 6, 2009 at 9:50 am
Is this a ploy to get us wanting them more? ;) They all look fabulous, I know you have worked with those ingredients before and had success, AND it is not like you to give up easily. They do look great and the combinations sound wonderful.
March 6, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us. I’ve had many failed muffin-baking attempts (mostly because I try to sub out too many things at once). The pics are still amazing :) That sweet potato cranberry one sounds like heaven to me.
March 6, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I want one of each muffin, but the Double Chocolate Black Bean ones have truly piqued my interest!
March 6, 2009 at 1:16 pm
What a bummer!! They do all look amazing… and I’m sure by most people’s standards they are delicious! But I understand, I think we all hold up our own baking to a certain standard, and all the recipes of yours I’ve made, show that you set the bar super high!
March 7, 2009 at 2:25 am
So…YES. I want the black bean double choco recipe, too. Come on. Post it!
March 7, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Ah well, the muffin porn is pretty to look at. I can’t ever make up my mind about muffins anyway. Most of the time they are either too dense and healthy or way too sweet and should have frosting and be called a cupcake. There never seems to be that perfect middle ground.
March 8, 2009 at 1:34 am
That IS quite the muffin porn!! I’m intrigued by the matcha latte muffins.
March 9, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Those chocolate black bean muffins look too good! I am also really into those savory tomato corn muffins, yum.