Kababayan

Small dense muffins with a sunken ring round the dome, baked in a hot oven that drops.

Egg. Vegetarian, but not vegan — contains egg, dairy (condensed milk).

Ingredients

• 250 g plain flour
• 180 g caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 150 g condensed milk
• 120 ml oil
• 100 ml water
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 0.25 teaspoon salt

Method

1. A HOT OVEN THAT DROPS. In at 200C for the first 8 minutes to throw the dome up fast, then down to 170C for the rest. All the way at 170C they rise slowly and come out flat; all the way at 200C the ring burns before the middle sets.
2. The sunken ring round the dome is what the shape is: it happens on its own if the tins are filled nearly to the top and the first blast of heat is hot enough. Filled two-thirds, you get an ordinary muffin.
3. Beat the eggs and sugar 3 minutes until thick and much paler.
4. Condensed milk, oil and water in, beaten until completely smooth. The batter is thin -- thinner than a muffin batter usually is -- and that is correct.
5. Flour, baking powder and salt sifted in and folded just until no dry flour is left. Beaten at this stage they go tough and tunnel.
6. Rest the batter 15 minutes.
7. Grease the tins properly, including the flat top between the cups, because the ring spreads over it.
8. Fill almost to the brim. Bake 8 minutes at 200C, then 12 to 14 minutes at 170C, without opening the door in between.
9. Out of the tins within 2 minutes of coming out of the oven. Left to cool in them, the sunken ring steams and tears off when you lift them.

Our own recipe. This one was written for this site rather than taken from anywhere, so there is no source to point you at. The quantities and the order of the steps are choices, not the only way to do it.

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