Sunday, 27 January 2013

Lemon and Blueberry Muffins

I've bought myself a lovely new baking book recently and will be making my way through it and hope to share some yummy recipes with you all so you can enjoy them too!

60g/2oz Butter
280g/10oz Plain Flour
1 tbsp Baking Powder
200g/7oz Caster Sugar
1 Egg
1tsp Vanilla Extract
250ml/8fl oz Milk
225g/8oz Blueberries
Zest and Juice of 1 Lemon
Pinch of Salt

  • Melt the butter in a pan
  • Sift flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl, add sugar, mix then make a well in the middle.
  • In a separate bowl beat the egg, add the melted butter, lemon zest, vanilla and milk.  Beat mixture until foamy.
  • Pour egg mixture into the well in the flour, stir in gently and gradually drawing the dry ingredients in to make a smooth batter.
  • Gently fold in the blueberries, do not over mix the mixture otherwise it will be tough.
  • Place in muffin cases and put in the oven for 15 - 20 minutes, the recipe says at 220C but I felt this was too hot, so I put it at 190C, just use your judgement or if in doubt put it a little lower and make sure you check them.
  • Mix lemon juice and a couple of tablespoons of sugar together, when the muffins are cooked dip the tops into this mixture or brush the mixture over the top.  
Extra tips I found may be useful:

 - If you don't have a sieve for the flour then use a whisk to ensure there are no lumps
 - As said above, check the muffins between 10 and 15 minutes, my oven cooked them fairly fast and I got them out at about 17 minutes and I felt they were done a little too long.
 


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