Mango Muffin Madness!

I've never been much of a culinary artist of any sort, really, but as you can see, my roomies and I have been trying to cook up new dishies. Recently I tried my hand at baking on my own for the first time. By that, I mean that I have baked before but usually with someone else who is typically more knowledgeable about cooking and sort of ends up taking over.

We had some mangoes that were way too ripe so rather than feeding them to the worms, I decided to mash them up to put in mango muffins!



I found this recipe on About.com but tweaked it a little due to availability of ingredients in my kitchen. The texture was great, but the taste was just okay. It was not quite sweet enough. I used the same recipe a couple days later using cherries instead, doing some more tweaking. It was not until my third try at muffins that I realized the vanilla extract I used in place of coconut extract did not provide any sweetness. Eek. I added more sugar, a little more salt to bring out the flavors, and cinnamon, and they tasted a lot better, but they could still use a little improvement. It's all about trial and error right? I do very much enjoy trying out different stuff. Unfortunately, I had a bunch of muffins to eat and not enough people to eat them, so what did I do? I brought them back to my mom who likes things that aren't too sweet and she actually sort of liked them. ^_^

By the way, these are the first pictures I am posting that I took with my new camera, the Canon Powershot S90. Weeee!