Basic Muffins with Variations

Ingredients

2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 whole egg
3/4 cup milk (or as needed)
1/3 cup Oil  (1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons)
1 cup mix-ins

Stir together dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients and any optional ingredients and stir just until moistened (do not develop gluten!) Adjust amount of milk depending on how moist add-ins are. Scoop into greased or lined muffin tins. Sprinkle the tops with sugar if desired. Bake at 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes

You can mix up a large batch of the dry mix and store in a sealed container. To have fresh muffins measure out 3 cups for 1 dozen muffins, add wet ingredients and mix-ins.

Variations

• Banana Nut- 1 c mashed bananas, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• Blueberry- 1 c fresh or frozen
• Pina Colada- 8 oz can drained pineapples, 1/2 c coconut. 
• Apple spice- 1 peeled, chopped apple, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, dash of nutmeg
• Pumpkin Spice- 1 c canned pumpkin, 1/2 t pumpkin pie spice, 1/2 c nuts (or chocolate chips)
• Mincemeat- 1 c mincemeat, 1/2 c nuts
• Date nut- 1 c dates 1/2 c nuts
• Cranberry- 1 c chopped fresh cranberries, 1 t orange rind
• Chocolate chip- 1 c chocolate chips, 1/2 t vanilla

Source: 

https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/bread/muffins/basic-muffins-with-variations.html