Blueberry Muffins Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Blueberry Muffins Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Makes: 12 muffins
Ingredients Needed
- 80g/2.8ozs melted butter
- 200g/7ozs caster or superfine sugar
- 250ml/8.8flozs buttermilk
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 360g/12.7ozs cake flour
- 4 teaspoons/20g/0.7ozs baking powder
- 250g/8.8ozs frozen blueberries
- 1 tablespoon caster or superfine sugar plus extra to sprinkle on top
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 PREPARE - Preheat oven to 180C/350F fan forced or 200C/400F conventional. Line a 12 capacity muffin tray with liners.
Step 2 WET - Whisk the melted butter with the sugar in a large bowl. Gradually add the buttermilk and whisk in along with the egg and vanilla.
Step 3 DRY - Sift in the flour and baking powder and then fold gently but do not overmix. Fold in for around 10 seconds but no more.
Step 4 BLUEBERRIES - Toss the frozen blueberries with the tablespoon of sugar and then mix most of them into the batter reserving a handful of them. Mix in until just combined.
Step 5 FILL - Using an ice cream scoop, fill the cases 3/4 full. Add the extra blueberries on top, around 2-3 per blueberry where there aren't any blueberries on top. Think the chihuahua or blueberry muffin meme below ;). Sprinkle with extra sugar.
Step 6 BAKE - Bake for 23-25 minutes or until golden and risen and the centre bounces back when gently pressed. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes and then remove and place on a cooling rack.
Substitution notes and ingredients:
Buttermilk can be made by adding a tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar to regular milk to make up 1 cup.
Vanilla can also be subbed with lemon zest.
Blueberries can be subbed for frozen raspberries, blackberries, boysenberries, mixed berries or cherries (halve the cherries if they're very large).
Personal Note
Dear Reader, I have more Cookie the bird news! We were walking the dogs when I popped my head over the fence when we got to Cookie's house as I always do as I like to say hello. Cookie wasn't in the cage. Then I saw Cookie's mum in the garden looking sad. "My bird is gone!" she said sighing, clearly upset.
She explained that yesterday, when her son opened the cage, Cookie flew out and up a tree. Then he was attacked by another bird and flew away scared. They had hoped that Cookie would return but there was no sign of the bird. We promised that we would keep a look out for Cookie on our walks.
That night, I was scrolling social media and I opened facebook. A post on my suburb's page popped up asking if anyone was missing a parrot. I sat up straight and whispered, "Cookie?". I wasn't sure what to do. Cookie is a pet and probably had a bit of a rough night already and it was around 9pm when I saw this. The post went live 19 hours ago and there was no response from Cookie's owner so I assumed that she hadn't seen it or wasn't a member of the page.
I worried about Cookie being in the wild as he was a pet his whole life. Mr NQN agreed to come with me to knock on their door. A young guy answered the door and I asked if his mother was home. I explained to them that someone had spotted a parrot and was it Cookie? She looked at the photo, "It's Cookie!!" she exclaimed. She and her family joined the facebook group and left comments. I put out some leftover blueberries from this photo shoot just in case Cookie came our way.
The next day and Cookie was returned back to his cage, his first (and hopefully last) adventure over!
So tell me Dear Reader, do you prefer your blueberry muffins plain or topped with sugar or streusel? And would you have knocked on their door?