About two weeks ago I started to get a baking itch. It started when I found the King Size Corn Muffins at ReTorte. I didn’t yet make the corn muffins, I opted for her blueberry muffins – with my own twist. I’m not saying my “twist” was the best choice, but I wanted to give it a try.
So, here is the recipe for Blueberries Muffins (based on ReTorte’s version)
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
- zest of one lemon
- Shaved chocolate (amount of your choice – and purely optional)
WARNING: Educational Content – “Zest” is the outer skin of the fruit. One can obtain the zest by using a fine peeler.
- Mix the butter and sugar together until you have a fine, light, mix batter.
- Add eggs, one at a time, and the vanilla.
- Mix in dry ingredients, alternating with buttermilk in 2 or 3 additions, to the butter/sugar/egg mixture.
- Add zest.
- Fold in blueberries.
- Scoop into muffin tins, greased or with papers, and bake at 350F for 25 – 30 minutes.
There is some debate around the house about the addition of the shaved chocolate. Personally, I like the taste of the chocolate and lemon. Others may not care for the the taste. It really depends on what your taste is.
Thoughts/tips to consider:
- Your oven will vary. I baked this batch for 28 mins, but on my next go around I will keep the muffins in for only 25.
- You can try different ingredients in place of the lemon. Let your imagination run wild.
- The addition of poppy seeds would be perfect for this.
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#1 by JT - March 30th, 2009 at 18:26
You own a muffin tin?
#2 by Wandering Coyote - March 30th, 2009 at 18:59
Wow, great job. This is my fave chocolate chip muffin recipe, and I have to admit, adding the chocolate is appealing to me on some levels. You could make a chocolate chip muffin with this recipe, just replacing the blueberries with chocolate chips. In fact, this is a great generic recipe that you can do all kinds of things with instead of adding blueberries.
#3 by Van - March 30th, 2009 at 19:18
@JT – Yes, I do! I have a couple if you need to borrow.
@ WC. Thank you.
As I was finishing up the muffins I realize just how versatile this recipe could be. For me, the mix of blueberrries/lemon and chocolate really works. I cannot explain exactly what it is.
I will be playing around with this in the near future – trying a number of different things in place of blueberries.
#4 by Van - March 30th, 2009 at 20:31
Ok, I can officially say I like the berry/lemon/chocolate combo.
#5 by JT - March 31st, 2009 at 14:18
I may need to, as I have never made muffins. So that begs the question, do you make muffins because you have a muffin tin, or do you have a muffin tim because you make muffins?
#6 by Anju - March 31st, 2009 at 14:41
We just went out and got new muffin tins specifically so Vanimal could make the muffins. We (I) actually had some but he wanted this specific kind.
#7 by Admin - March 31st, 2009 at 18:58
Getting so deep on us here, aren’t you? Yea, I didn’t want to use the ones we had, so I went out and got new ones.
Well if you do need them… let me k now.
#8 by I’m With Noodles! - April 4th, 2009 at 21:41
In the oven as I type: raspberry, white chocolate chips, heavy lemon zest & grated peel.
I must have much smaller muffins tins as I eek’d out 18 muffins. Smell gd.
Thanks.
#9 by Van - April 4th, 2009 at 21:46
Wonderful to hear! The white chocolate chips sound great w/ berries. Take pictures!
#10 by I’m With Noodles! - April 5th, 2009 at 09:19
Not photo quality. Here is what I think happened…. I think the raspberries, frozen, held too
much moisture & my baking pwdr may been to be refreshed. The muffins are moist, due to
the fruit, and didn’t puff up too much. I am doing a “re-do”, as my kids call it, tonight and
am planning on thawing the berries out and blotting them out a bit. I will keep you posted.
Overall, the flavor it really gd, appearance: not camera ready.
#11 by Van - April 5th, 2009 at 10:17
Yea, the moisture could be a killer. I was worried about that originally. Do keep us up to date on what happens!