Name: Pandan Kaya Muffins
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 12 Regular Muffins
Ingredients: 4 Eggs (55g-60g, Room Temp); 160 g Caster Sugar; 100 g Oil (Vegetable or Coconut Oil); 80 g Pandan Milk; 3/4 tsp Vanilla Extract; 200 g Top or Cake Flour; 2.5 tsp Baking Powder; 2-3 tsp Kaya (As Preferred, Optional); Dessicated Coconut (For Sprinkling)

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Easy one-bowl mix muffin in pandan flavor, topped with rich kaya and coconut.

These pandan kaya muffins are full of pandan and coconut aroma! Best of all, you simply need to mix the ingredients in a bowl with a whisk!

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How Do These Muffins Taste Like?

These muffins are made using oil – you can use neutral tasting vegetable oil or coconut oil – so they taste better and are more moist the day after.

If you like light muffins with some bite, you would probably like these muffins!

This recipe uses more eggs than usual, so the baking powder gives the muffins quite a bit of lift there, for a fluffy texture. As the recipe uses slightly more baking powder, you can try to get aluminum-free baking powder so there’s no weird taste, and is probably “healthier”.

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What Ingredients Do I Need?

Eggs – As mentioned above, the recipe uses more eggs than normal muffin recipes. You can use medium sized eggs, about 55g – 60g each.
Milk – I am using pandan powder bought from Redmart previously for the pandan milk mixture (it’s now out of stock). You can also blend pandan leaves using milk. Otherwise, you can also use just fresh milk for vanilla flavored muffins. Use full fat milk for moist crumbs (not low fat or skimmed milk).
Oil – I am using rice bran oil. You can use any neutral tasting vegetable oil, or coconut oil for a fuller coconut aroma.
Baking Powder – Baking powder is important here to give the muffins a fluffy texture. If you can, do try to get aluminum-free baking powder.
Top Flour – You can use either top flour or cake flour. If you cannot find top flour, you can also use plain flour. Simply sift the flour twice. The texture difference is not too obvious in muffins.

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Pandan Kaya Muffins

Simple one-bowl mix pandan flavored muffins, topped with luscious kaya and dessicated coconut.

Prep Time20 mins

Cook Time25 mins

Course: Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Kaya, Muffins, Pandan

Servings: 12 Regular Muffins

Author: Cherie L.

Ingredients

4 Eggs 55g-60g, Room Temp
160 g Caster Sugar
100 g Oil Vegetable or Coconut Oil
80 g Pandan Milk
3/4 tsp Vanilla Extract
200 g Top or Cake Flour
2.5 tsp Baking Powder
2-3 tsp Kaya As Preferred, Optional
Dessicated Coconut For Sprinkling

Instructions

Preheat oven to 170C. Line cupcake or muffin pan with 12 liners.
Whisk eggs in mixing bowl briefly. Add sugar and whisk well.
Add in oil and mix well to a thicker mixture.
Whisk in pandan milk and vanilla. Mix well.
Sift in flour and baking powder. Whisk till no visible trace of white flour left, and the batter should be fairly smooth.
Pour batter into measuring jug. Distribute batter evenly in the cupcake pan, filling about 90% full.
Place kaya into piping or ziplock bag. Snip off one corner and pipe onto surface of muffin batter. Sprinkle with dessicated coconut.
Bake in preheated oven at 170C for 25-27 mins, or until a skewer inserted in the middle of muffin comes out clean or with fairly dry crumbs.
Let cool completely on wire rack before storing.

Notes

1. You can use plain flour if you do not have top or cake flour.

2. You can use 1.5 tsp pandan powder + 80g milk or blend 20g pandan leaves with 85g milk before straining. In both cases, measure out 80g milk mixture. Pandan paste or emulco can also be used if you do not mind artificial flavoring. Otherwise you can use just fresh milk for vanilla flavor.

2. Homemade or store bought kaya can be used. You may also reduce sugar in this recipe slightly to 150g if you are topping with kaya.