How to make muffins with few ingredients?!

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Oatmeal muffins.

(I would add 1 teaspoon on cinnamon and some raisins too. You do as you please).

1 cup milk
1 cup quick cooking oats
1 egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Grease muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
In a small bowl, combine milk and oats; let soak for 15 minutes.
In a separate bowl, beat together egg and oil; stir in oatmeal mixture. In a third bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Stir flour mixture into wet ingredients, just until combined. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups until cups are 2/3 full.
Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Easy-Oatmea…

200g self raising flour (you can buy smallest pack 500g)
200g caster sugar (also 500g pack)
100g magerine (not wasted as used daily)
4 drops vanilla flavouring/ essence - one small bottle
2 eggs
150ml evaporated milk one small tin should be enough
20g coco powder/ chocolate chips optional
for chocolate chip muffins
muffin cases
this should make 12 muffins
sieve the dry ingridients into a bowl
beat the milk, eggs and vanilla and place aside
put the magerine into the dry ingridients and mix together
pour the mill mixture in
mix everything together - this is when you add coco or choco chips
place cases on a muffin/cupcake tray
evenly divide mixture so that it fills half the case
bake for 15-25 mins at 190 degrees

I made these and I'm 13 piece of cake lol

Muffins have such basic ingredients that most people would have them in the cupboard anyway.....

Ummm.....

Smaller bags of flour/caster sugar/icing sugar, if you don't use that?

Most baking ingredients are long life anyway and although self raising flour will lose it's zing after the sell by date, it's not harmful and can be made to rise again with bicarb of soda. In fact, there's nothing (with the exception of eggs and dairy, obviously) that is particularly harmful after the sell by date.

Make those muffins and have fun! =]

Basic Muffins Recipe
2 cups all-purpose flour, or 2? cups pastry flour, sifted
? cup granulated sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
? tsp salt
1 cup whole milk
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 large egg (or 2 medium)
4 oz butter (? stick) or shortening

1.Preheat oven to 400° F.
2.Combine the flour, baking powder and salt.
3.Unwrap the butter and heat it in the microwave, in a microwave-safe bowl, for about a minute, until it's thoroughly melted. Set it aside at room temperature to cool, but don't let it solidify again.
4.Beat the eggs in a separate bowl and then add the sugar, milk and vanilla to the eggs.
5.Thoroughly grease and flour a muffin pan (or use paper muffin liners).
6.Pour a tiny bit of the melted butter into the egg-vanilla-milk mixture and stir it in. Repeat 3-4 more times, adding a slightly larger amount of the liquid butter each time until it is all incorporated.

IMPORTANT: Don't add hot melted butter to the egg mixture as the heat from the butter would cook the egg, and that's not what you want to do!

7.Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ones and mix no more than ten seconds. The batter should be visibly lumpy, and you may see pockets of dry flour. That's OK! It's extremely important not to over-mix the batter, or the resulting muffins will be too hard.
8.Gently pour the batter into the prepared muffin pan and bake immediately.

TIP: The dry and wet ingredients, respectively, can be mixed in advance, but as soon as the wet and dry ingredients have been combined with each other, the liquid will activate the baking powder and the batter must be baked right away.

9.Bake 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/bakingd…

I prefer to cut the butter into the flour rather than using meltd butter.

Buy them at the store.