Meridian's blueberry muffins from meridian

nut free kids can help can make in advance vegetarian
Category
Breakfast recipes
Servesmakes a dozen large muffins
Prep time 15 mins
Cook time20 mins

Mumsnetter ratings

based on (2) reviews
Ease of finding ingredients 8.5
Ease of cooking9.5
Success with kids9.5
Success with adults9.5
Overall Mark 9

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter at room temp
1 cup caster/white granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt (a pinch)
2 1/2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
2 cups self- raising (or all purpose) flour
1/2 cup milk
Topping:
1 tbsp light brown sugar
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tbsp porridge oats

Handy Hint

any fruit can be used, fresh or frozen

Method

Pre-Heat oven to 370°.

Grease 12 large size muffins (or 18 regular-size muffin cups) or line muffin tins with paper cases.

In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.

Add eggs one at a time, beating after each.

Beat in vanilla, baking powder and salt. With spoon, fold in half of flour then half of milk into batter.

Fold in the remainder of the flour, and then the remainder of the milk.

Gently fold blueberries into the batter and spoon into muffin cups.

Combine topping ingredients and sprinkle onto each muffin.

Bake 20 minutes, or until golden brown and springy to touch.

Mumsnetter Reviews

From: Anon on Sat 07-Nov-09 19:50:52 Overall rating: 9.2
Very easy to make, tasty and the blueberries make it quite healthy.
From: meridian on Fri 13-Jun-08 09:40:15 Overall rating: 9.2
These muffins are more cupcake with fruit in than pure muffin, though I have never properly understood the dividing line between cupcake and muffin. I like to mess around with my basic muffin recipe and seek inspiration from other recipes and then go my own way. The inspiration for the recipe is DS wanting to make cupcakes and me needing to use up some blueberries that were on offer. I trolled through some recipes in my recipe folder and in my books and had a play and this recipe is the result.



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