What is Muffin? What is the difference between Muffin and Cupcake? Make easy and economical muffins with Jam Filling

In the world of baking, there are a variety of delicious pastries that are regularly featured in afternoon teas as desserts and snacks. Muffin – a kind of small pastries with many well-loved different flavors is also very popular. However, many people are confused about two types of pastries: muffins and cupcakes, which seem to be the same but have completely different ingredients and flavors. So, how to differentiate? Muffin recipes are both delicious and diverse. Find out more information below!

Muffins are well-loved and appear in many bakeries in Vietnam

1. What is Muffin? What’s the difference between Muffin and Cupcake?

Origin of muffins

Muffin is a line of pastries from the romantic land of France. The cake was originally called Moufflet, using savory filling (vegetables, bacon,…) and sweet filling (jam filling, fruits, nuts,…), often enjoyed as breakfast, afternoon snacks or given as a gift for a loved one.

In the 19th  century UK, people had a habit of eating snacks in the late afternoon; there appeared Muffin sellers with a ringing bell. Since then this cake has become popular in the land of fog.

Distinguish between Muffin and Cupcake

Muffin’s main ingredient is wheat flour, which does not require time incubating dough or use of yeast like bread. Instead, muffins use baking powder, baking soda, then mixed with the other ingredients for the cake. Then it is put into the mold and baked.

Cupcake is a miniature version of cream cake, usually without a filling or a sweet filling. Its core is soft, light, sweet and has a layer of cream on top for decoration. When baked, it is put in a small paper cup instead of in a large cake mold like muffin. This type of cake is often enjoyed at parties as desserts.

Cupcake features an eye-catching decorative layer of cream

Similarity:

Muffin and Cupcake are both small in size, similar in shape – a feature that often makes people confuse these two types of pastries. However, it’s easy to distinguish between the two if you observe: Muffin has simple decoration, Cupcake has a more sophisticated layer of cream on top.

Differences:

Muffins are quick cakes – which means they are made quickly. Because it doesn’t take time to incubate the dough, the cake is thick, heavy and not fluffy like most other cakes.

Cupcake is like a small sponge cake, which is more fluffy and softer than Muffin. The most attractive highlight is its eye-catching decoration, with flavors such as green tea, chocolate, wine, fruit,…

Cupcakes have a softer layer than muffins

2. Make simple and economical Muffins with Fruit Jam Filling

Show your cooking talents with attractive sweet and sour muffins with tasty fruit jam filling. For busy working days, Muffins will give energy in snack meals for you to efficiently complete your tasks. Besides, you can make muffins for your loved ones because this is a very meaningful handmade gift that is simple to make at home.

Apple Muffin and Strawberry Muffin recipes

Prepare muffin ingredients:

• ANDROS Strawberry Filling (or ANDROS Apple Filling): 3500g
• Sugar: 2000g
• Sugar-free yogurt: 1200g
• Cooking oil: 1600g
• Vanilla flavor: 4g
• Eggs: 1400g
• Wheat flour: 2400g
• Baking soda: 50g
• Salt: 20g

How to make:

• Add all ingredients (except ANDROS Filling Jam) and mix well, let the mixture rest for 30 minutes
• Put the dough into the Muffin molds of 70g
• Pump 15g ANDROS Filling Jam into each cake
• Bake the cakes at 175 degrees, within 20 minutes

Blueberry Muffin recipe

Prepare ingredients:

• ANDROS Blueberry Filling: 150g
• ANDROS Frozen Blueberries: 150g
• Sugar 1: 50g
• Sugar 2: 135g
• Yogurt: 100g
• Cooking oil: 132g
• Eggs: 100g
• Salt: 2g
• Cake flour: 200g
• Baking soda: 4g

How to make:

• Soak sugar 1 with frozen fruit for 30 minutes, let fruit color the liquid
• Add the fruit mixture to the remaining ingredients, mix well, let the mixture rest for 30 minutes
• Put the dough into the Muffin molds of 70g
• Pump 15g ANDROS Blueberry Filling into each cake
• Bake the cakes at 175 degrees, within 20 minutes

3. ANDROS Filling Fruit Jam – Ingredient to create delicious and attractive Muffins

In order to make good quality muffins, besides basic ingredients such as flour, flour, eggs, baking powder, sugar, etc., ingredients to enrich the flavor are also very important. ANDROS Filling Fruit Jam is specifically designed to create delicious cakes. Thus, this ingredient will definitely make your muffins stand out with a delicious fruity taste.

ANDROS Filling is a fruit jam product from Andros Asia , which has many years of experience in the field of processing and creating products derived from fruit. With more than 60 years of experience, ANDROS is proud to always accompany experts in baking and bartending to create excellent products for the F&B industry.

Easy-to-buy ANDROS Filling products available on e-commerce sites

The bright characteristics of the product is its high quality – using real fruit pieces, keeping stability despite temperature changes when baking or cold storage. ANDROS Filling fruit jam is an ingredient worthy to be in either the baking kitchens of experts or the home ovens of baking enthusiasts.

Andros Asia provides professional ingredients for the F&B industry, with raw materials supplied from a large fruit growing region in Vietnam. You can directly contact Andros Asia through the information below for dedicated advice and support!

Representative office in HCMC: Room 902 – 904, 9th floor, Women’s Building, 20 Nguyen Dang Giai, Thao Dien Ward, District 2, HCMC, Vietnam

Factory: Lot 47-49-51, My Tho Industrial Park, Trung An Commune, My Tho City, Tien Giang Province

Hotline: +84(0)28 3519 0228

Email: contact@andros-asia.com / orders@andros-asia.com