Blueberry and Vanilla Muffins

Blueberry and Vanilla Muffins

Hopefully you have recovered 
from the excesses of 
Pancake or Shrove Tuesday.

We had a marathon pancake 
eating tea which was great
fun.

We all enjoyed covering the pancakes with 
various toppings and 
feeling somewhat sick
afterwards.

Childhood memories in the making.

Miss Bee managed a gut-busting
eight pancakes,
Mr. Bee in respectable five,
and me only four.

Little bee was not interested as 
they had made pancakes at
school that afternoon and was,
in his words,
"not a fan".

I had bought some lovely fresh 
raspberries and blueberries
as a choice of topping 
but seemed to
have ended up with 
quite a few left over.

I suspect the chocolate spread 
was a more popular choice.

So, not wanting to see the fruit 
go to waste I thought a nice, 
quick batch of muffins
was called for.

These are the easiest thing to make and are
very popular with everyone.

You will need :

250g plain flour

2 tsps baking powder

150g caster sugar

175ml milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 large eggs

150ml sunflower oil

100g blueberries

2 tbsps of oats and brown sugar mixed together

1. Line a 12 hole muffin tin with 

some pretty paper cases,

and pre heat the oven to 180c / 160 c fan/ gas 4.

2. Put all of the ingredients 

except the blueberries and

the oats and sugar mix 

into a bowl or mixer.

Combine until all the ingredients 

have come together.

3. Fold in the blueberries.

The recipe calls for 100g of blueberries 

but I suspect I had a few 

more than that.

A few grams here or there will 

not spoil the mix

and it will not see any of your 

fruit going to waste.

4. divide up the mixture equally 

into the muffin cases.

I find an ice cream scoop 

very helpful for this.

Sprinkle with the oat and brown sugar topping mix

and place into the preheated oven 

for approx  30 minutes,

or until the tops are a lovely 

golden brown

and the blueberries will have 

probably burst and

those beautiful purple juices 

are running down the

sides of the cases.

Leave on a rack to cool.

These are delicious warm or cold

but fresh out of the oven,

they are just too good to resist.

They are such beautiful little treats 

of blue jewelled 

fruitiness.

I'm sure my hungry lot will have t

hese demolished

as soon as they 

arrive home from school.

Have a lovely weekend and until

next time,

enjoy your day.

B 

x