Making Strawberry Jam Muffins — Photos

As an effort to diversify my offerings of muffins for my mom, I learned how to make these delicious muffins containing strawberry jam, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Mom likes them so much that she declared that she likes them a lot better than both the bran muffins and the yoghurt muffins I make for her!

Note that while this recipe can be easily multiplied several times to make more muffins at once, this recipe is intentionally tailored to a half dozen muffins instead of the usual custom of a dozen muffins, since the original recipe on which it was based allows it to be halved and therefore be baked in a countertop convection oven.

In addition to this recipe, the following recipes can (usually, depending on oven size and specific dimensions) be made directly without adjustment in a countertop convection oven:

As well, here are a number of my other recipes which allow for adjusting by half to be made, or can otherwise easily be made (sometimes in shifts), in a countertop convection oven:

Making the muffins:

First, my countertop convection oven was turned on and set to 350F (yes, the photo says 86F, it’s preheating!):

Countertop convection oven turned on to be preheated
Countertop convection oven turned on to be preheated

A muffin baking tin and some paper muffin liners were taken out:

Muffin baking tin and paper muffin liners taken out

Paper muffin liners were placed in each of the wells of the muffin baking tin:

Paper muffin liners placed in muffin baking tin wells

A mixing bowl, a fork, and a spoon were taken out:

Mixing bowl, fork, and spoon taken out

Flour and a measuring cup were taken out, and some flour was measured out:

Flour taken out and measured out

The flour was transferred to the mixing bowl:

Flour transferred to mixing bowl
Flour transferred to mixing bowl
Flour transferred to mixing bowl
Flour transferred to mixing bowl

Sugar and a measuring cup were taken out, and some sugar was measured out:

Sugar taken out and measured out

The sugar was transferred to the mixing bowl with the flour:

Sugar transferred to mixing bowl
Sugar transferred to mixing bowl
Sugar transferred to mixing bowl

Baking soda and a measuring spoon were taken out, and some baking soda was measured out:

Baking soda taken out and measured out

The baking soda was transferred to the mixing bowl with the flour and the sugar:

Baking soda transferred to mixing bowl
Baking soda transferred to mixing bowl
Baking soda transferred to mixing bowl

Cinnamon and a measuring spoon were taken out, and some cinnamon was measured out:

Cinnamon taken out and measured out

The cinnamon was transferred to the bowl with the flour, sugar, and baking soda:

Cinnamon transferred to mixing bowl
Cinnamon transferred to mixing bowl

Nutmeg and a measuring spoon were taken out, and some nutmeg was measured out:

Nutmeg taken out and measured out

The nutmeg was transferred to the mixing bowl with the flour, sugar, baking soda, and cinnamon:

Nutmeg transferred to mixing bowl
Nutmeg transferred to mixing bowl

Salt and a measuring spoon were taken out, and some salt was measured out:

Salt taken out and measured out

The salt was transferred to the mixing bowl with the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg:

Salt transferred to mixing bowl
Salt transferred to mixing bowl

A fork was taken out and used to mix the dry ingredients:

Dry ingredients mixed with a fork
Dry ingredients mixed with a fork

A box of eggs was taken out:

Eggs taken out

An egg was taken out of the box of eggs:

Egg taken out

The egg was cracked on the edge of the mixing bowl with the dry ingredients:

Egg cracked into mixing bowl
Egg cracked into mixing bowl

Milk and a measuring cup were taken out, and some milk was measured out, but the milk was not yet transferred to the mixing bowl:

Milk taken out and measured out but not yet transferred to mixing bowl

Vegetable oil was taken out, and some oil was measured out in the measuring cup while the milk was still in it, but the milk and oil were not yet transferred to the mixing bowl:

Oil taken out and measured out but not yet transferred to mixing bowl

Strawberry jam was taken out, and some strawberry jam was measured out into the measuring cup with the milk and vegetable oil:

Strawberry jam taken out and measured out
Strawberry jam measured out

The milk, vegetable oil, and the strawberry jam were transferred to the mixing bowl with the dry ingredients and the egg:

Milk, oil, and strawberry jam transferred to mixing bowl
Milk, oil, and strawberry jam transferred to mixing bowl
Milk, oil, and strawberry jam transferred to mixing bowl
Milk, oil, and strawberry jam transferred to mixing bowl

The ingredients were mixed together with the fork:

Ingredients mixed with a fork

The batter was transferred to the paper liners in the muffin baking tin, using a spoon:

Batter transferred to paper liners in muffin baking tin
Batter transferred to paper liners in muffin baking tin

The filled muffin baking tin was transferred to the pre-heated countertop convection oven:

Muffin baking tin with batter placed in countertop convection oven

A timer was set to 23 minutes:

Timer set to 23 minutes

While the muffins were baking, a cooling rack was taken out:

Cooling rack taken out

Here’s a picture of the muffins rising while baking:

Muffins rising while baking

At the end of the 23 minutes when the muffins were baked, the muffin baking tin with the muffins were taken out of the countertop convection oven:

Muffins taken out of countertop convection oven

The muffins were taken out of the muffin baking tin and placed on the cooling rack:

Muffins placed on cooling rack

A muffin (in the case of this photo, from a subsequent batch) was taken out to serve to mom:

A delicious muffin is served!

Mom loves these delicious muffins a lot these days!

… and I froze the rest of muffins in a freezer bag, as I did with muffins from a subsequent batch:

Extra muffins placed in freezer bag for freezing

Mom now says that these are her favourites!

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