Mango muffins

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This is simply a mango muffin look that really tastes of mango – rarer than you mightiness think! With 2 large mangoes, the puree flavours the batter and keeps the muffin moist, past tons of chopped mango is stirred in. It domes tall, has a crunchy apical and beauteous hint of coconut flavour.

Mango muffins

Every mango muffin I’ve tried successful the past hardly tastes of mango, and that includes my ain attempts. You can’t conscionable disturbance chopped mango into a basal muffin mixture, and 1 mango isn’t capable for 12 muffins – that’s hardly immoderate mango per muffin!!!

So this year, I acceptable my sights connected yet nailing a recipe. With mango puree successful the batter and chopped mango stirred in, you volition request 2 BIG ripe mangoes for these muffins. You truly request a operation of some puree and mango pieces due to the fact that there’s lone truthful overmuch puree the batter tin instrumentality earlier it turns into atrocious pudding-like mush (1 cupful was the limit). There’s besides lone truthful overmuch chopped mango you tin adhd earlier the muffin starts falling isolated (2 cups was the limit).

They dome up beautifully, person a crunchy top, and the wrong is brushed with – yup, you guessed it – GREAT MANGO FLAVOUR!! I besides added coconut flavour into this. Because coconut positive mango conscionable works.

Ingredients successful mango muffins

First, let’s speech mangoes!

Mangoes for muffins

These muffins volition lone beryllium arsenic bully arsenic the mangoes you use. We privation saccharine and juicy, due to the fact that the sweetness and moistness of the muffins relies connected ripe mangoes.

My favourite is chromatic gold mangoes (picture above) – richest, sweetest flavour – though R2E2’s are a adjacent 2nd (the elephantine ones!). Kensington pides and palmer are a small tangier and Keitt’s person a small milder mango flavour. Calypso brings up the rear – they ever look the prettiest astatine market stores but they person the slightest mango flavour. (PS I’m successful Australia, these are our astir communal mango varieties).

Frozen mango tin besides beryllium used. I’ve included directions successful the recipe.

Muffin ingredients

And here’s what you request for the batter.

Plain flour (all-purpose flour) – Not aforesaid raising flour which already has baking pulverization built in. Generally speaking, cakes and muffins don’t emergence arsenic nicely and the crumb is not arsenic soft. Better to adhd your ain rising agent.
Baking soda (bi-carbonate) – Speaking of which, this is what we usage to marque the muffin rise! Baking soda is ~3x stronger than baking pulverization and I find it works amended for these muffins due to the fact that the batter is simply a small thicker than accustomed truthful it needs a spot of an other boost to emergence nicely.
Vinegar – Acidity that gives the baking soda a footwear commencement connected the rising! You can’t sensation it astatine all, it’s conscionable to activate the baking soda. Either vinegar oregon thing other with acidity successful it (like yogurt oregon sour cream) is reasonably modular successful astir of my baking recipes that usage baking soda.
Coconut lipid – This is the abdominous I usage due to the fact that it has coconut flavour. Use unrefined coconut lipid which has the coconut flavour. Refined is coconut lipid with the coconut flavour removed.
Coconut lipid is kept successful the pantry and has a scoop-able consistency similar butter. To use, conscionable melt for 20 seconds successful the microwave.

Desiccated coconut – This is besides called finely shredded coconut successful immoderate countries. Not to beryllium confused with flakes / shavings which are larger. Be definite to usage unsweetened, not sweetened.
Sugar – I usage achromatic sweetener here. I don’t urge brownish sweetener due to the fact that the crumb gets a small excessively brushed and damp. The muffin uses 3/4 cupful (150 g) of sweetener which works retired astatine 1 tablespoonful per muffin, truthful it’s not excessively sweet. I initially utilized 1/2 cupful of sweetener (100 g) but personally felt the muffin was not rather saccharine enough. However, consciousness escaped to usage the lessor magnitude if you prefer!
Egg – Use 1 ample egg, 55-60g / 2 oz successful the shell. Egg is what holds the crumb of cakes together, but the much you use, the drier a barroom volition be. I was struggling with a adust crumb for this barroom due to the fact that of the effect of including the mango puree (wet puree = much flour required = drier crumb). In the end, cutting backmost to conscionable 1 ovum turned retired to beryllium the solution!
Vanilla – For flavour.
Salt – Just a pinch, to bring retired the different flavours. Standard baking signifier these days!

How to marque mango muffins

The batter making portion is arsenic straightforward arsenic immoderate different muffin – dump and mix, nary electrical beaters required. The astir clip volition spell into chopping the mango. Which I ne'er truly see a chore fixed however overmuch mango-snacking gets done during the process!

Cutting mango FOR THESE MUFFINS

Use the scrappy bits for the puree, and support the bully ample feature pieces for dicing.

Cheeks first – Stand the mango upright connected the wider broadside (ie the broadside that was attached to the tree). Cut the feature of the mango disconnected each broadside of the seed, aiming to permission arsenic small soma arsenic imaginable connected the seed.
Scoop out – Then utilizing a ample spoon oregon scooper (the sharper the edge, the easier it is), scoop the soma retired of the skin. Scrape retired immoderate excess soma from the tegument – perfect to usage for pureeing!

Remove tegument disconnected seed – Cut the tegument disconnected the soma remaining connected the seed.
Flesh disconnected effect – Then chopped the soma from astir the seed.

For puree – We request 1 cupful of mango puree to premix into the batter. This is 260 grams of mango flesh, oregon 1 1/3 cups of mango chopped into tiny cubes (once pureed it becomes 1 cup). I measurement by weight, and I usage the scrappy bits for the puree and support the cheeks to chop origin it’s easier!
Blitz – Then puree the mango utilizing a instrumentality blender, oregon a tiny nutrient processor. You mightiness conflict with a ample nutrient processor, not capable mango.

For chopping – We besides request 2 cups of chopped mango to disturbance into the batter. You tin either chop past measurement retired 2 cups, oregon you tin measurement the mango past chop (this is what I do) – you’ll request 370 grams.
Chopping the mango – Take a feature and portion it successful fractional horizontally. Then, keeping the 2 pieces stacked, chopped into a grid.
If the mango pieces are excessively ample past it tin marque the muffin autumn apart. So chop them reasonably small, astir 1 cm / 1/3″ oregon so.

Making the muffins

Mango chopping done, this portion is ace easy!

Spray muffin tin – Spray a 12 spread muffin tin with canola oil, oregon grease good with butter. I don’t usage muffin liners for these muffins due to the fact that I find you suffer excessively overmuch muffin erstwhile you peel the insubstantial off!
Dry – Whisk the Dry ingredients successful a vessel (flour, baking soda and salt).
Wet – Then whisk the bedewed ingredients successful a abstracted vessel (mango puree, sugar, egg, coconut oil, vanilla, vinegar).
Combine – Pour the Dry into the Wet ingredients. Use a rubber spatula to premix until the flour is mostly mixed successful but you tin inactive spot bits of flour.

Add-ins – Then adhd the chopped mango and coconut. Mix conscionable until you tin nary longer spot flour.
ℹ️ This batter is thicker than emblematic muffin batters due to the fact that the muffin gets a batch of moisture from the mangoes arsenic they bake. Early versions I made with a looser batter resulted successful unpleasantly bedewed muffins!
Fill and sprinkle – Divide the batter betwixt the holes. It tin mound up somewhat supra the spread due to the fact that the batter is thicker than mean truthful it won’t spill implicit erstwhile it bakes. Sprinkle with the demerara sugar. Full sum and the much generous the better, for a crunchier top!
Bake – Put the muffins into the oven preheated to 220°C/425°F (200°C fan-forced). Then instantly crook the oven DOWN to 200°C/390°F (180°C fan). Then cook for 24 minutes, oregon until the apical is aureate and crisp, and a skewer inserted into the mediate comes retired clean.
ℹ️ The archetypal precocious vigor gives the muffins a footwear commencement to rise, but past lowering the vigor somewhat allows them to navigator done evenly. Early versions baked for the full clip astatine the higher somesthesia were excessively adust connected the outside, though I loved that the apical was other aureate and crispy!
Cool for 10 minutes successful the muffin tin. Then transportation to a cooling rack and chill for astatine slightest different 10 minutes earlier grabbing one!

So determination you person it. Finally made a mango muffins look I was blessed with! It was strangely much hard than I expected. I truly thought it would beryllium arsenic casual arsenic switching the pome successful my Apple Muffins with mango.

But it seems not. Not if you privation muffins with existent mango flavour!

I anticipation you emotion these arsenic overmuch arsenic I do. – Nagi x

Watch however to marque it

Mango muffins

Recipe video above. All excessively often, mango muffin recipes deficiency existent mango flavour. It's not capable to conscionable disturbance chopped mango into a muffin, and 1 mango is not capable for 12 muffins!

But these muffins DO really sensation of mango, with mango puree stirred into the batter and plentifulness of chopped mango added! They beryllium gangly and proud, with a crunchy top, beauteous hint of coconut flavour and a beauteous brushed crumb acknowledgment to the moisture from the mangoes.

You volition request 2 precise large mangos or 3 mean ones. If you are short, marque definite you usage the close magnitude for the puree past suffer retired connected the chopped mango.

Course Sweet Baking

Cuisine Western

Keyword mango muffins

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 24

Servings

Calories 252cal

Author Nagi

Ingredients

Dry ingredients:

2 1/4 cups plain flour (all-purpose flour)
1 1/4 tsp baking soda (bi-carbonate soda), sifted if lumpy (Note 1)
Pinch of salt

Wet ingredients:

1/3 cup unrefined coconut oil (or unsalted butter), melted and somewhat cooled (Note 2)
1 large egg (55 – 60g/2 oz each successful shell)
1 tsp white vinegar (Note 1)
3/4 cup white sugar (can trim to 1/2 cupful but nary less)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cupful (260g) mango puréed mango (1 1/3 cups tiny chopped mango reduces to 1 cupful erstwhile pureed, Note 3), country temp

Add-ins:

2 cups (370g) chopped mango , small, 8mm to 1 cm max, country temp (Note 3)
1/2 cup desiccated coconut , unsweetened (finely shredded coconut)

Crunchy topping:

2 tbsp demerara sugar (Note 4)

Cups – Metric

Instructions

Preheat oven to 220°C/425°F (200°C fan-forced). Spray a muffin tin with canola lipid oregon grease good with butter. (Note 5)
Batter – Whisk Dry ingredients successful a mean bowl. Whisk each the Wet ingredients good successful a abstracted ample vessel until smooth. Pour the Dry ingredients into the Wet ingredients. Use a rubber spatula to premix unneurotic until the flour is astir incorporated.
Add-ins – Add the chopped mango and coconut, past premix until you nary longer spot flour – halt mixing, adjacent if determination are a fewer flour lumps, other the muffin volition beryllium adust and tough. The substance volition beryllium thicker than emblematic muffin batters due to the fact that it gets a batch of moisture from the mangoes arsenic it bakes.
Crunchy top – Divide betwixt muffin holes, it should beryllium somewhat mounded (as pictured successful post). Sprinkle the apical of each with 1/2 spoon of Demerara sugar.
Bake – Place successful the oven. Immediately crook the oven down to 200°C/390°F (180°C fan). Bake for 24 minutes oregon until the aboveground is aureate and crunchy, and a skewer inserted into the mediate comes retired clean.
Cool – Leave successful the muffin tin for 10 minutes past transportation onto a cooling rack. Cool for astatine slightest different 10 minutes earlier grabbing one!

Notes

1. Baking soda (bi-carbonate) gets a assistance boost from vinegar (you can’t sensation it!) which gives it a footwear start. Works amended than baking pulverization due to the fact that it’s stronger and this muffin batter is thicker than accustomed ones. Substitute with 4 teaspoons baking powder, but crumb is not rather arsenic tender.

2. Coconut oil adds large coconut flavour into these muffins! Be definite to get unrefined (coconut flavour) not refined (coconut flavour removed). Otherwise, substitute with unsalted butter. To melt, conscionable popular it successful the microwave for 20 seconds connected precocious oregon usage a saucepan.

3. Mangoes – My favourite is Honey Gold (sweet, large mango flavour), followed by R2E2, Kensington Pides past Keitts. Use your favourite – arsenic agelong arsenic it’s ripe!

Puree mango soma utilizing a instrumentality blender oregon nutrient processor, it’s quick. Be definite not to mis-measure: excessively small = adust muffin, excessively overmuch = excessively wet. Either puree past measurement retired 1 cup, oregon value the soma past puree (which is what I do):

1 cupful mango puree = 250g (9 oz) mango soma = 1 1/3 cups mango chopped into tiny cubes

Chopped mango pieces: 2 cups tiny diced mango = 370 g (13 oz). I chopped the cheeks of the mango, portion successful fractional horizontally past (keeping the 2 slices stacked) chopped into a grid.

Frozen mango – you volition request a full of 630g/22oz frozen mango. Thaw wholly and fto it travel to country temperature, don’t usage crystal acold (slows down the baking process). Then chop/puree arsenic the look calls for.

Room temp – Whether utilizing caller oregon thawed, beryllium definite to usage the mango astatine country temp, not fridge cold, different the immense measurement of mango added into the batter volition marque the batter acold truthful it won’t emergence arsenic good and volition instrumentality longer to bake.

4. Demerara sugar – Large sweetener grains that cook up crunchy! Find it successful the baking aisle astatine market stores. Don’t person it? Try oats oregon nuts, oregon skip it. Don’t usage much mango, the muffin won’t emergence arsenic well.

5. Muffin liners don’t enactment that good with mango muffins I find, excessively overmuch muffin peels off!

Muffins will enactment caller and moist for 4 days. If it’s blistery and humid, support them successful the fridge. They tin besides beryllium frozen for 3 months!