One hundred and one...muffins!

Hi everybody. This Christmas we have decided to save money on gifts, as in Italy with the crisis we don't have a lot of money to waste. So, we gave as Christmas presents some muffins to our neighbors. We packed it with a small glass dish, bought at Casa, a nice shop that sells things for the house. They cost us 89 cent, because it was an offer; then we added a Gabel dish cloth (2,8 € with the 3x2), or a Gabel pot holder (1,45 €).

Then we have to prepare a looot of muffins! I made 5 different kinds of muffin: with blueberry, with coconut and dark chocolate, with banana and milk chocolate, with cocoa and white chocolate, with carrots. For the first four kinds the dough is the same, then I add the different ingridients.

Here's the receipt for the first four kinds of muffins:

WHAT YOU NEED (base):

• 125gr butter
• 150gr sugar (the finest the better)
• 3 eggs (2 whole eggs and a yolk)
• 380gr flour
• 1 packet of yeast with vanilla
• a pinch of salt
• 250 ml milk

HOW TO:

• mix the softened butter with the sugar, then add the eggs (one by one)
• add flour, the salt and the yeast with a sieve little by little, and sometimes add some milk, so the dough isn't to hard to work.

Blueberry: add blueberry as you like.

Coconut and dark chocolate: add shredder coconut and the dark chocolat cut in small pieces, as you desidered.

Banana and milk chocolate: add the pureed banana and the milk chocolate cut into small pieces, as much as you prefer.

Cocoa and white chocolate: add the cocoa powder with a sieve till the dough becomes brownish, then add some white chocolate cut in small pieces (not too much white chocolate).

All my muffins!

And here are my presents:

Presents

Present

As you can see, I hve added a small sticker with the addressee (Primark, 50 x 1,5 €) and a clip (Casa, 6 x 1,29 €): I attached a note with the name of the different kinds of muffins.

And these are muffins packed in muffins boxes! I found these at Casa, and it was 1,99 € for two boxes.

Muffins boxes

So, maybe it could be a good idea for next Christmas, isn't it? Have fun this Christmas, bye!