Hello! It’s been awhile! I meant to post forever ago but I got VERY distracted by work, training for the half marathon, family stuff, vacation planning, etc. So this blog kind of got pushed to the side. But I have a free evening, so I thought I’d write about my baking adventure from Monday. It’s, again, from the breads recipe book. Only this time I chose a quick bread!
I’ve been on a wild blueberry kick. I have them in my lunch most every day. My dogs love blueberries almost as much as they love carrot. I made blueberry Jam. This is the Summer of Blueberry.
No, not that Blueberry, but that’d be really rad.
No, Blueberry Muffins! The book calls them spicy blueberry muffins, but the spice part was. . . a little lackluster. But fear not, that doesn’t mean these weren’t delicious!
Flour.
Baking Powder. And a recipe for cornbread stuffing, slightly blurry.
Sugar, but only 1/3 of a cup. These were not sweet, and I liked it a lot.
Salt.
And the spice, cinnamon! Not very much. Next time I’d add more and maybe add some ginger to really spice things up.
Blueberriesssss!! Yes, mixed right into the dry ingredients. I got them all nice and coated too.
I might have forgotten to melt the butter and bring the other wet ingredients to room temp, so, it kind of broke the emulsion, as you’ll see.
The cold milk shocked the butter.
I also forgot to beat the eggs before adding them, but eh, it didn’t matter too much in this recipe.
I tried to make a well in the dry ingredients to pour in the wet, but the chunky wet didn’t behave. Again, didn’t matter too much for this recipe.
Mm, muffin batter. It was actually a bit drier than I expected. You’re not supposed to mix this a lot, just until it’s combined.
Some of these seemed to lack blueberries, so I pressed some on top of the batter, and it was a great decision.
The recipe also calls for simple cinnamon-sugar. I had a lot leftover so I saved it for buttered toast or even coffee if I’m feelin’ fancy (and I already have vanilla sugar from when I had a vanilla bean pod leftover from another cooking escapade!).
Mmm cinnamon.
I might need to clean my oven.
I slightly overbaked them, but they were still super tasty.
They popped right out of the muffin pan because I sprayed the heck out of it.
Nothing’s better than an oven fresh muffin, except an oven fresh muffin with butter (which my mom had, not me).
I made these Tuesday, and I have one left. I gave three to my mom, and my dog STOLE one from off the stovetop! Straight up lifted his head and STOLE it, the dirty dog! I knew feeding him blueberries was going to backfire. Actually if you scroll up to the photo of them on the wire rack on the stove, you’ll see there’s only 11… BECAUSE ANUBIS STOLE ONE and Appa managed to eat half of it as well. She’s a scrappy little dog.
I definitely enjoyed these. Would I make them again? Maybe, if I added more cinnamon and some ginger, I think they could be “proper” spicy blueberry muffins. As it is, they tasted like regular blueberry muffins. But a good recipe nonetheless, and not as sugary as some other recipes.
I have no idea what I’m going to bake next, but I’m sure it’ll be just as much fun.
I bought this mug the same day, and it is me 100%. It’s the anxiety disorder.
Hope you all have a great weekend!
The Solo Geographer 