LESSON 4 YEAR 9

STICKY CARROT AND ORANGE MUFFINS

Ingredients

Muffins

175g sunflower oil

175g light brown sugar

3 large eggs

140g carrots, peeled and grated

100g raisins

1 large orange –the zest

200g self raising flour

5ml bicarbonate of soda

5ml ground cinnamon

5ml mixed spice

Sticky Topping

30g light brown sugar

The juice from the orange

Time Plan

Check your oven is preheated to 180C/Gas Mark 4.

  1. Top, tail, peel and then grate the carrot
  2. Weigh out 30 g of brown sugar into a smaller bowl and save for the topping
  3. In a mixing bowl and using a wooden spoon, lightly blend together the sugar, oil and eggs.
  4. Using the fine grater zest the orange, NOT taking any of the pith
  5. Stir in the grated carrots, raisins and orange zest to the liquid mixture
  6. In another bowl mix together the flour, cinnamon, mixed spice and bicarbonate of soda that have been put together for you
  7. Now carefully add the moist mixture to the floury mixture, lightly mix together. The mixture will be fairly soft.
  8. Using two table spoons spoon, carefully divide the mixture equally between all the muffin cases
  9. Using oven glove put the muffin tray the oven to bake, (about 20 minutes)
  10. While the muffins are in the oven wash up and tidy up, then make the glaze – by juicing the orange and adding the liquid to the remaining brown sugar and stirring
  11. As soon as the muffins come out of the oven, lift the muffins on to your tin foil sheet. Now carefully spoon the glaze over the muffins. Wrap up the muffins to cool and soak up the sugar mixture and melting it with the residual heat of the muffins making them lovely and sticky, when you open them up at home.

HOMEWORK

Go through each part of the time plan, explain fully the skills, equipment used and the safety precautions. Lay it out like this to organise the work.

Step / Tasks and Skills Used / Equipment Used / Safety Check
1 / Prepare the carrot to use
Cut, Peel and Grate / Peeler /Grater/Chef Knife / Correct use of knife cuts
Hold of carrot to keep fingers from sharp blade of the peeler
Keep knuckles away from the grater by using the correct hold on the carrot
2 / Weigh out 30g of the sugar / Scales / Zero the scales to allow for weight of the bowl