Baking and cooking are what I love to do. Now that Dyllan is getting older, I have been letting him help more and more. His favorite part is licking the spoon clean. I hope everyone enjoys my recipes, and have fun in the kitchen!!

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Blueberry Muffins

Makes 9 yummy Muffins

Ingredients
3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tbsp. baking powder
1 1/2 stick butter
1 egg, beaten, plus 1 egg yolk
2/3 cup milk
grated rind of 1 lemon
1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries

1. Preheat the oven to 400F. Line a muffin pan with nine large paper muffin liners, or about 12 in a regular size muffin pan.
2. Put the flour, sugar, baking powder and butter, cut into cubes, in a bowl. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
3. In a separate bowl, beat the egg, egg yolk, milk and lemon rind together well.
4. Pour the egg and milk mixture into the flour mixture, add the blueberries and mix gently together.
5. Divide the mixture among the cake liners and cook for 30-40 minutes, until they are risen and brown.
6. Check with a toothpick in the center of the muffin, if the toothpick comes out clean they are done.

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I love baking and cooking. The recipes I'm going to post are recipes I have tried, and of course have enjoyed. I hope you all enjoy! Bare with me, some weeks I will post more then other weeks. It just depends on how much time I have to bake, and how much room I have in my freezer. In the next couple months I will be baking a lot with summer fruits and veggies so I can freeze them to enjoy them in the winter! Please feel free to take the recipes I post and try them out for you and your families. I will be trying and posting recipes from my families recipes, cook books I have, and recipes I find on the internet.