Carrot and raisins muffins

My sister is an expert on baking muffins. I spent more years away from home than at home. Every time I came from hostel, I would see her baking muffins. She enjoyed baking. Baking is a new adventure to me and as I progress I realise how precision matters to achieve the perfection you want. These are the first batch of muffins I baked. I was home with mom and took advantage of her oven. I don't own an oven yet so all my experiments so far have been with the microwave oven.
It was pure delight feeling the difference in baking in an oven, an baking home with mom around.

So start baking, chirstmas season is a nice time to explore bakig, I am sure the christmas bugs would entice you to play with flour and tease with eggs and butter and of course !! add a few pounds to your frame :)

It's that time of the year you just should indulge and promise to make resolutions on New year's eve. So celebrate :P

In a bowl whip up the eggs sugar and the shortening. Add grated carrots to this mix and whip up well using a mixer or beater. Fold in the sieved flour and baking powder.

Add the raisins. Coat the muffins tray with oil or cooking spray. Pour the batter into the moulds.

See that you dont fill the cups completely as the muffins will raise. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 35- 40 minutes. I am sure the temperature varies and so does the cooking time in every oven so see that you dont over cook and harden the muffins. My mom beleives we should not open the oven every now and then so I did check through the glass pane if the muffins were raising. For those who got a steel door this would be difficult. So after 30 minutes open and check the status by pricking into the centre of a muffin using a tooth pick of a fork. If the centre is cooked the inserted object will come out non sticky.

I hope it motivates those of you who fear baking turning into a disaster. It wont go wrong , go ahead and try it out.