Receta Christmas Gift #8: Bakery Style Blueberry Muffins
Christmas Gift #8: Bakery Style Blueberry Muffins
By Eliot, on December 15th, 2011
Thank goodness we have had no snow so far this winter. (Watch it—I know I just jinxed it.)
Last winter I was home-bound for about a week because of the weather. I went on a baking binge. Thanks to a lot of great foodie pals who post fantastic recipes, I kept quite busy. One of my favorite things to come out of my baking binge was a Streusel-Topped Banana Mufins at In Katrina’s Kitchen. I loved this streusel topping from Katrina and I decided to top off some blueberry muffins with this same topping.
- Bakery Style Blueberry Muffins
- 6 T. butter
- ½ c. 2% milk
- 1 large egg
- 1 egg yolk
- ¼ t. vanilla
- 1 ½ c. flour
- ¾ c. sugar
- 1 ½ t. baking powder
- ¼ t. cinnamon
- ¾ t. fine sea salt
- 2 c. blueberries (individually frozen is best)
- For topping:
- 2/3 cup flour
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of salt
- 5 tablespoons butter, melted
Preheat oven to 375 degrees and generously butter 12 large muffin tins.
Melt butter in a small saucepan over moderately low heat; remove from heat and let cool slightly. Add milk to butter and whisk. Add egg, yolk, and vanilla and whisk well to combine.
In a separate bowl, whisk together dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt). Add milk mixture and stir until just combined. Gently fold in blueberries.
Fill tins ¾ full.
Make topping. Whisk together flour, powdered sugar, cinnamon and salt. Add melted butter and stir together with a fork. Topping will be crumbly.
Top each muffin with a generous amount of the topping. Bake until golden and a wooden pick inserted into center of muffin comes out clean, 18-20 minutes. Cool in pan for 15 minutes and then carefully remove to wire racks.
(The basic blueberry muffin recipe also came from my beloved yellow Gourmet cookbook.)
I placed these muffins in a wooden box lined with toille paper I bought at Williams-Sonoma many years ago. You can find some cool wooden boxes at some hobby stores. I am reusing a box that held some great olive oil and balsamic vinegar that was given to us as a gift. I don’t know where you stand on re-gifting, but reusing is acceptable at Christmas!
(We will see how my early morning meeting crew likes these muffins along with the Yogurt-Flax Muffins from my last post. And, if you chocolate and bananas, stay tuned for the next muffin installment.)