Cosy home comforts for most of us are more or less the same.
- Hot drinks in pretty mugs
- Blankets and pillows
- Warm fires
- Cookies
- Warm muffins
- Wine
- Pet snuggles
- Friends and family …
The list goes on and on! So for this cold weekend in November, be you in England at home, Norway sledding or Canada reading a book here’s my favourite blueberry muffin recipe for everyone to try!
You will need need the following ingredients and utensils…
Utensils:
- Mixer OR strong arm and wooden spoon
- 1 mixing bowl
- 2 other spare bowls (can’t have enough)
- 1 sieve
- Muffin cases
- Muffin baking tray
- Scales
- Wire rack
- Spoon or three (I like soup spoons for this)
- Apron
- Oven / dragon
Ingredients:
- 110g butter / vegan butter
- 250g plain flour
- 250g golden caster sugar
- 2 eggs / vegan ‘no-egg’
- Splash of milk / vegan alternative
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Half a vanilla pod
- A pinch of teaspoon salt
- 200g + fresh blueberries (more the yummier)
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180ish degrees / gas mark 4. Set out the muffin cases in the muffin tray and put on the side.
Sieve the flour and baking powder into a bowl, add the golden caster sugar, a dash of salt and mix it all together.
Eat a blueberry (vital)
Then mix together the butter / milk and vanilla pod extract until smooth.
Eat another blueberry…
Pour both bowls into one and add in the remaining blueberries!
Mix all up together gently so as not to mush the blueberries.
Get yourself two spoons and scoop up a big dollop of mixture and then use the other to push it into the muffin case. I’d suggest filling them around half full and make sure there are an even number of blueberries distributed throughout.
After you’ve done this and licked any remaining ingredients off the spoon, give the bowl to a child or dog to lick of you feel generous, or like Jon and I, sit down and lick the bowl whilst the muffins cook.
Bake them for around 15/20 minutes or so. Set a timer to check them after 15 minutes as some ovens vary. My mums for example is a big range and can take minutes, it’s literally a dragon!
When they’re done you’ll know as they’ll start to crack on the tops and go a beautiful golden brown.
Leave them to cool on a wire rack, or like me an upside down pizza tray, as I left my wire rack at my friends house!
It’s vital you leave them to cool, you may end up with blueberry burns if not and trust me, that’s not something you want to be explaining to your friends at lunch the next day…
So whilst waiting for them to cool, tidy up, pop on the kettle and get ready to cosy up under a blanket and eat some scrumptious muffins!
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