Making a muffin with some camping gear...

I heard on a podcast that it's possible to make a muffin while camping and trekking. When i heard this i was utterly amazed. My current form of breakfast is cereal with milk powder + water. Horrible. But now, I could imagine waking up freezing in the middle of Thredbo and eating a nice hot muffin with only 10-15 minutes wait. I had to find out more.
So i popped off to Woolies to see what i could use. Betty Crocker's Just Add Milk, $3ish for 8 muffins in total and all you need is 165ml of milk, which can be supplemented with milk or BUTTERmilk powder. Yum.

I kinda did some maths and then decided, i have no scales so that was pretty much pointless and started mixing the milk and powder together until it was gooey. I hate baking, i have no idea what consistency its suppose to be. It kinda stuck to the spoon and then blobbed off. I figured that was good enough.

place a bit of tin to make sure it doesnt burn

put in muffin mix

steam steam steam away!

To make this muffin, they generally use steam baking which basically uses water to transfer the heat from the stove into hot air. Without the water it would take a longer and i think potentially damaging to the pot, though it has been done (maybe i'll give it a go later).

I had to make a little stand to keep my muffin container off the water. This was made with an old lasagna aluminum container which I had saved. A short bit cut and curved did the job really well. Then it was plonk the muffin in, boil away with the lid on.

soft soft muffin goodness

yumyum=P

so i gave it a good 10 minutes on the boil and it turned out great. No crusty muffin top but juicy, soft and yummy muffin innards.

After this i've tried it a few more times trying to use a pot cosy to extend the cooking time while increasing the muffin size. I think you could easily make a regular muffin size with 1 ounce of fuel + you get a hot drink at the end as well =)

i think a few more runs and i can bank this technique for the trail.