Is this late, or is this early? You decide (since I missed last week and this is all you get for this week). We LOVE breakfast around here - and I am a firm believer in a good start in the mornings, especially since I have no control over what ds eats at school for lunch (sure I pack him a well balanced lunch, but he doesn't always eat the "brain food." These muffins are my favorite - I could eat them almost daily. I found the recipe years ago in an issue of Martha Stewart Living. Here it is:
Breakfast Muffins
10 TBSP butter, melted (1 1/4 sticks)
1 TBSP Baking Powder
1 3/4 Cups Flour
1 1/4 tsp Cinnamon
1/4 tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla
2/3 Cup Sugar
2/3 Cup Milk
1 Large Egg
1 1/4 Cup Blueberries (or other fruit) - frozen is fine!
Struesel (recipe follows)
Preheat oven to 400. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon & salt in large bowl. In medium bowl combine butter, vanilla, sugar, milk and egg. Fold blueberries into flour mixture. Add butter mixture, and fold. Spoon batter into greased muffin tins. Press/sprinkle struesel on top of each. Bake until tops are golden, 15-17 minutes. Remove from oven; let cool a bit in pan, transfer to wire rack. Makes 12-18 muffins.
Struesel:
5 TBSP butter, melted
2/3 cup Flour
2/3 cup Powdered Sugar
1/4 tsp Cinnamon
pinch of Salt
Whisk together dry ingredients; add melted butter. Combine using your fingers until the mixture has a crumbly consistency. Drop the crumb mixture over muffin batter and press gently before placing in oven.
My personal tips: I always use at least 1/2 whole wheat flour (sometimes all). I don't usually make the struesel - I think they are good without, but it adds an extra bit of fun if you have the time for it. I also have a hard time with the big whole blueberries, so I chop them - just a little - with a knife. Tossing them with the flour first helps keep the batter from being completely purple. Oh, and these are good using strawberries or raspberries too :) I can' t think of anything else - Enjoy!!
P.S. I posted a tasty brownie recipe over at my blog - check it out!
Thanks for the recipe. My family loves muffins and I even have some blueberries. I'm going to try it in the morning since we have plenty of time before our 1:00 church.
ReplyDeleteI love blueberry muffins!! I think we have the same taste because we are definitely breakfast eaters at my house - well, all of us except dh. He does like your recipes though he still won't stop teasing me about the blog :)
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