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can you bake bread recipes into muffins

jdchurchill's picture
jdchurchill

can you bake bread recipes into muffins

i suppose this is a vague question as i am sure many recipes can be adapted to different shapes.  but what i have in mind is a sourdough banana muffin concept and all i can really find is sourdough banana bread recipes.  there is even one on this site.  so my question is this:  what do i have to do to modify a recipe that is for bread to do muffins?

 

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mrfrost

Not much different than making "rolls" from a loaf bread recipe.

The only modification would be the obvious, of taking small pieces of the dough to form rolls. And maybe not so obvious, but you would bake for a much shorter period.

Sounds to me that you are mainly talking about "shaping dough", and while there are traditions here, one can also do as one pleases.

Here, I took some cinnamon roll dough, added dried blueberries, rolled into little balls, and baked as clover leaf rolls(in a muffin tin):

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jdchurchill

perfect that is what i was planning and as stated above was just looking for a bit of validations

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flournwater

"Muffins" are typically more cake like than bread.  Muffins are usually made using a batter, while bread is made from a dough.  The bread "muffin" would be more in the order of a "roll".   People do, however, bake "rolls" in muffin tins.

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jdchurchill

so does this mean i should take whatever i want my ingredients to be and do the baker's math to compute a higher (perhaps) hydration than the "bread" recipe would have? 

i was gleaning the bread bible and the range of muffin hydration is quite wide.  but i guess i sorta know what it's supposed to look like so i could just by gosh and by golly (with measuring) to get it where i think it should be and then see what that really is with math later.  eh?

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flournwater

Muffin dough (batter) requires gentle handling.  Muffin dough (e.g. English muffins) are less sensitive.  Although I wouldn't prepare English muffins in a muffin tin, I see no reason why you couldn't try using a similarly hydrated dough in a muffin tin to see how it works.  My hydration level for English muffins runs approx. 73% (with 3% of that being sugar  -  a liquid ingredient) but I've never baked them in any fashion except the traditional stove top griddle/cast iron pan and finishing in the oven.

Sorry, I don't own a "Bread Bible" so I'm unacquainted with the specifics of your references.

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jdchurchill

oh its the bread bible by rose levy beranbaum which is sometimes bantied about on this site.  anyway i think i'm oriented in the right direction here and thanks y'all!