Do you ever find yourself tweaking a recipe, just a little here and there, because you want to give it your own unique flair? Perhaps the recipe calls for eggs, but you’re vegan or maybe you’re allergic to eggs, so you have to replace them with another ingredient? I know we’ve all altered a recipe at one point or another, I certainly have. I like to think that sometimes cooking and baking experiences are more fun when the end result is somewhat of a mystery! The term we use here at Key Ingredient for “recipe tweaking” is CLONING.

You will find the “clone” option on the left hand column of your profile page when you visit a member’s recipe page. By clicking “clone”, you’ll be able to recreate someone else’s recipe while still giving credit back to the original cook. Once you’ve cloned the recipe, you can locate it on your recipe roll, then later edit and save the recipe after adding your choice of ingredients to the original.

But what happens to the first edition of the recipe?
When you click on the “about” tab located on the widget, you’ll notice that it has a link back to the original recipe owner’s page. Cloning makes everyone happy; you get to experiment and be creative with someone else’s recipe, but the credit still goes where it is due. Plus, it’s a great way to make friends; who doesn’t like being thanked for coming up with a recipe that’s been used over and over again by so many who were able to give it their own touch?

Below you’ll find a recipe I cloned this weekend. I made these muffins a little lighter than the original ones, I also discovered they make the perfect midnight snack (then again, I could eat breakfast foods at any time of the day…and, yes, I did take a bite out of that one muffin!).