Preparing Dry Ingredients for Morning Glory Muffins

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Melissa and on behalf of Expert Village today we're going to learn how to make morning glory muffins which are absolutely perfect for Christmas morning breakfast. In this clip, let's prepare our dry ingredients for making the morning glory muffins. Now what you will notice it differs from the best ever benana muffins is our quantities are a little bit larger so instead of one cup we are using two cups, so of course, if you do the math this is going to make a little bit larger batch of muffins. This batch will make approximately fourteen maybe even fifteen large muffins. Where the best ever banana muffins made a good perfect dozen, nice size, and they were nice and large muffins. But, this is a little bit larger of a batch. So let's get to our dry ingredients. We're going to be working with some sugar, flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon. Now I've started to prepare some of the ingredients in here already. What we want to do, first off, you want to have two cups of flour. What I always like to do is to take a knife and as you are getting your flour into the cup is to put it in there but always level it off. You don't want too much or too less, you want it to be just right. So we want two cups of flour. When you put the two cups of four in, which I have already done, then we want to move on to sugar and we want one cup and a quarter cup. So 1 and 1/4 cup of sugar. This is the only time my rule differs. I don't use the knife and I tend to like things just a little bit less sweeter. Because we are putting in things that have already its own sweetening in it, like an apple, for instance. I find that you can have a little bit less sugar. If you like more sugar feel free to put one and a quarter cup but what I always do is just put it in and don't quite fill it right to the top. Just a little bit less. So do that with one cup and with the quarter cup as well, just a little bit less. Then we move on to our baking soda where you want to have two teaspoons of baking soda and then we will move on to the cinnamon. I do recommend, especially if you are using the same teaspoon, working with the baking soda first because it's light in color and you don't want to contaminate your baking soda container here, so the cardboard box. But then we will move on to the ground cinnamon, you want two teaspoons of the cinnamon as well. So, I've put that in. We we've got our mixture in here. The only thing we haven't put in yet so far is the salt and that is a half teaspoon if you remember from the ingredients. So again we'll put this, I usually do this over the sink just because sometimes it makes just a little bit of a mess depending on the salt dispenser, yourself. You might waste just a little bit but you don't want to have too much. You never want to measure over top of what you are mixing into, of course, because you will have too much or too much of one particular ingredient. So, take the knife, level it off, we'll put a half teaspoon in there and then we just need a spoon to start mixing that up. We'll mix up the dry ingredients and I'll meet you in the next clip."