CDKitchen 100: Recipe 4

Let it be said that Violet Beauregarde (I never get tired of her as an example...) is probably the definition of a "muffin-top." I mean, just look at her: bloated, BLUE, her top is bigger than her bottom.

Jeesh. Someone definitely needs to visit the gym.

Aside from forcing beauty ideals on someone so young, this entry is dedicated to Violet's favorite treat: Blueberry Muffins. After having a surplus of blueberries from my last endeavor, I personally like muffins. They're nutricious, they're the perfect snack, dessert, breakfast combo.

But they're also really, really yummy too.

Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1/3 cup butter -- melted (like my heart, mmm)
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (I used the last bit of my organic stuff)
• 1 cups fresh blueberries
• additional butter -- melted
• additional sugar

First off, you're going to take your dry ingredients and mix them together in a bowl. This would include:

...flour

...sugar

...baking powder

...and salt

And mix it all up!

Take the butter and microwave it until it's liquid-y.

It doesn't suspect a thing.

In another bowl, beat your eggs (they're just askin' for it anyway).

Yeeaah, that's the ticket.

Blend in the milk

butter

nutmeg, and vanilla (both not photographed) into this bowl. Mix it.

Take this time to preheat your oven at 375F.

Pour into the dry ingredients

It lives... IT LIVES!!

...and mix just until moistened.

Pour in the blueberries.

Now it in the original recipe, it says to fold in the recipes. Learning from my previous mistake with the blueberry fritters, I looked up what folding was exactly and proceeded to do that with the blueberries in this batter.

Then I took a muffin pan and greased it up with baking PAM and filled it up.

Oooh yeah, let's get a close up of that.

Without much further ado, I put in the pan and waited about 20 to 22 minutes.

You see the missing one? ...I ate that one.

Blueberry goodness...

Mmm-hmm! They look so good.

After they came out, I brushed the tops with melted butter with my silicone pastry brush and sprinkled them with sugar. I used confectioner's sugar instead of granulated, which may have been a slight mistake because granulated would've given some nice texture to the muffins.

Still, it came out rather beautiful in a blueberry grotesque way.

Bon appetit!

Impressions:

• I found that these muffins, while good, came out a little too nutmeg-y for my taste. Next time (and yes, there'll be a next time) I'll cut the nutmeg in half.
• I added too many blueberries and it was painfully apparent. Less blueberries next time.
• I might try whole-grain wheat flour instead of all-purpose for a more nutritional approach.
• I liked the recipe, but I didn't love it. Maybe with revisions next time, it'll be bumped to "adore" instead of "meh."

Found via CDKitchen (Blueberry Muffins).