Mace is the outer covering of the Nutmeg fruit. It has a beautiful lacy form. The aroma is wonderful. As I searched for recipes using mace, I saw a lot of Indian biriyani and kurma recipes. When I searched for international recipes, I got recipes for cakes and cookies.
I didn’t want to try biriyani, because many spices are used for the masala. The flavour of mace will go undetected in those recipes. I wanted to prepare something in which the flavour of mace is the dominating factor. So I decided upon a cookie. When finished baking one batch, I was not satisfied with the results. They were so soft. So I added more buttermilk and prepared a cake batter, Filled some paper cups and baked them. Wow! The result was super soft and spongy muffins with crispy peanuts. The taste was divine. We liked it very much. The aroma of ground mace filled the house. mmmm… yummy..
I prepared this using the home made biscuit mix. You can prepare it in large quantities and store it in the fridge for 2 weeks. If freezed it will be good for 6 months. I got this recipe from here.
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Never even thought of adding mace to muffins! Looks delish!
Delicious looking muffins nicely flavoured 🙂
Mace is a very fragrant spice..I would never have thought of using it in a muffin but now I am definitely curious 🙂
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Never thought of using mace … and then jumping from cookie to muffin is a wonderfull experiment..
I will surely try this and let you know
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wow its really very new to me dear…. to be sure, i dont know there is a spice called mace until now.
and the muffins, simply superb… no words to say….
thanks for sharing…
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Yummy Muffins!!!!
thats so so innovative Gayathri. I could have never thought of a cake recipe with this spice but you made it with an amazing result. glad that you enjoyed being in the chain and now will wait to see your recreations from this book. between have put up the running round up of this chain. will include this today.
thanks.
have included your post in the round up/ plz check.
Lovely muffins with the fragrance of mace.
muffins looks delicious
A muffin with mace! Till now this was used only in my pulavs and some spicy curries. Got another delicious use for the spice. Muffins look absolutely gorgeous and am sure would have tasted great.
BAKING QUEEN…
I usually use mace in making briyanis, adding them in muffins sounds interesting..Awesome!Welcome to Blogging Marathon..
Happy Pongal and congrats on being a part of this chain…mace in cookies…it is a wonderful and novel idea..bet they were delicious…Blogging marathon…welcome…
Reva
Gayathri, muffins look great!
btw, I am also doing a 15 day marathon.
ஜாதிபத்திரி சேர்த்திருப்பது வித்தியாசமா இருக்கு,சூப்பர் மபின்ஸ்!!
a muffin with mace. wow!!!!truly innovative. waiting to see all those chocolates from the book.Eagerly waiting to see the mystry ingrediet too:-)
Muffin with mace sounds delicious.
muffins looks yummy n soft..
delicious and soft
soft and moist muffins
aah–mace in muffins, whata touch !lovely very well written post and this mystery box chain sounds fun! great job gayathri
Lovely muffins
very innovative. i liked the idea of using the mace as well as the biscuit mix.
Very innovative……muffins n mace….should try it.
that surely sounds interesting 🙂 great presentation !
Yummy looking muffins!!
Very Nice Muffins…looks like to taste it.