Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Blueberry muffins

Those who don't enjoy the taste of blueberries are missing out on one of the most delicious fruits on planet earth (along with all the other fruits except for watermelon and papaya, the former makes you think that your bladder broke and later makes your odor receptors bleed), and for those who do, you should be delighted to hear that it is blueberry season!  Yes, blueberries have seasons, just because the store sells them doesn't mean that they should grow all the time.  Anyhow, blueberry picking is always an enjoyable activity for you and your family especially with the sky-rocketing price of blueberries in grocery stores right now.
One of my favorite thing about blueberries is that you can make them into blueberry muffins, sweet yummy little things that make you forget you are on a diet.  So, I made some muffins today with the berries picked by my mother who woke up at 6am to pick them.  Personally, I think it is still a little too early for blueberry picking, since the berries were rather sour and small, but regardless they are still great when baked with fat and sugar~

We got the recipe from the blueberry picking place and it called for:
eggs -------------- 2
sugar ------------- 1/2 cup
oil/butter ----------1/2 cup
sifted flour -------- 3 cups
baking powder --- 1and 1/2 tablespoon
salt --------------- 1 teaspoon
blueberries --------1 and 1/2 cup

The steps are fairly simple:
1. mix eggs, sugar and oil/butter.
2. slowly mix in the sifted flour baking powder and salt until everything is pretty much even.
3. put in the blueberries!
4. bake for 20-23min in 400 F degrees
5. voila!

Here are some pictures of our blueberry muffins :D





On a side note, they were not as sweet as most people would like, so adding sugar is advised to those who like their muffins to be a little sweeter.

Enjoy!

1 comment:

  1. Bwahaha, so true about the watermelon and papaya.

    Those muffins look delicious. I bet the sour blueberry-ness couples with the sweet muffin-ness pretty well. :P

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