I've been baking quite a bit lately mostly carrot and banana loaves for snacks. They are pretty healthy and mostly keep me away from the junk drawer. I just bought frozen blueberries so I decided to try and make lemon blueberry muffins. I wasn't satisfied with the recipes in my cookbooks or online, they either had too much sugar or too little fibre. So instead I started with my mom's plain muffin recipe and added in the flavour.
It turned out pretty well and they are delicious! The only thing I would change for next time is folding in the blueberries once all the ingredients are mixed so that they don't turn out as purple.
Recipe
Dry ingredients
1 cup white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup old fashion oats or all bran cereal
1 tbsp wheat germ
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of salt
Wet ingredients
2 eggs
1 cup vanilla or plain yogurt
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter or margarine
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
juice from half a lemon
zest from 1 lemon
1 cup frozen blueberries (still frozen)
Method
1. Preheat oven at 375 F
2. In a medium bowl, mix dry ingredients together, set a aside.
3. In a large bowl, mix wet ingredients together.
4. Incorporate half of dry ingredients in wet mix. Repeat with other half. Do not over mix.
5. Gently fold in blueberries. Let sit for 5 minutes.
6. During that time, butter a 9"x 9" pan.
7. Put mixture in pan.
8. Bake for 20-23 minutes on middle rack. Test it with a clean knife or a toothpick by inserting it in the middle, if it comes out clean, it's ready!
9. Remove from pan and cool on a rack. Wait for it to be room temperature to cut it.
This recipe can easily be turned into muffins, I would bake them for 16-18 minutes in that case.
