Chili Popovers

12 Popovers

Ingredients:

• 1 ¼ cup strong flour (bread flour)

• 1 tsp table salt

• 1 tsp white sugar

• ¾ tsp chili powder

• ½ tsp cinnamon

• Zest of one orange

• 1 ½ cups milk

• 3 large eggs

 1)     Preheat the oven to 400 degrees with the rack in the middle position.

2)     Spray a muffin tin with very thin coat of cooking spray. The popovers will release even better if you wipe the tin with a paper towel after spraying to even out and spread the thin layer.

3)     Heat the milk in a small pan to 120 degrees.

4)     Whisk together the flour, salt, sugar, chili powder, cinnamon and orange zest.

5)     In another small bowl, whisk the 3 eggs and slowly add the warm milk to temper the eggs.

6)     Add the milk/eggs to the dry mix and whisk until smooth.  The batter will resemble a pancake batter.

7)     Portion the batter evenly into the muffin cups. They should be roughly ¾ full.

8)     Bake the popover 45 minutes until they are deep brown and crisp. Don’t open the oven door until you are ready to remove them from the oven!

9)     Let the popovers cook in the muffin pan 5 minutes and then remove to a wire rack.  Serve them while still warm with butter and your favorite jam.