It's not that easy to come up with a recipe or even a modification on an existing recipe. A concoction or (like here...) a method sounds good in theory but whether it will work is a different issue entirely. Here's a good one: the other day I had a muffin at work and even though shop-bought, nothing special on the whole, it had a creamy curd centre which made it interesting. So of course I thought I’d try it at home.
Muffin mix is dead simple, I’ve made this mix with blueberries, raspberries, chocolate, orange zest and it works. Orange curd was organic and not too sweet – what could go wrong?
It could and it did.
The muffins were still very nice but the curd disappeared completely, partly leaking, partly evaporating (or what?), but leaving delicious tart flavour in the muffin centre.
The version with the chocolate ganache was fine – no evaporation there. Shame about the orange. I should have frozen it, possibly, or possibly worked out that the one I had at work was injected with gooey cream post baking.