Time has been running away with me these last couple of weeks so you may have noticed activity has stepped down a notch on here. Ted developed an obsession with the computer, in particular, the marvelous CBeebies website, meaning I’ve been keeping it switched off when he’s awake. Outside of the house I’ve been running back and forth following a busy schedule of appointments for him which has mean fewer afternoons in the house with him fast asleep whilst I cook, photograph and blog.
Rather like the muffin in this photo above, it’s been a bit of a balancing act. Especially visiting other blogs, rest assured that if even if I’ve not commented on my favourite blogs, I am still looking.
One thing I can always fit in, no matter how busy, is a tray of muffins. Dead easy, I can have these little babies mixed up, baked and on the table inside 35 minutes – even whilst supervising a little person painting pictures on the kitchen table.
These muffins are from the same Donna Hay book that I used for the White Chocolate and Sour Cherry ones last month. The cup measurements drive me a bit mad in that book so my favourite pages are covered in pencil annotations of my calculations converting the ingredients to metric. The recipe is shown below but first I have some other news I am very excited about…
Blueberry and Vanilla Muffins
Makes around 18 standard muffins, 12 large muffins or 30 teeny weeny mini muffins
Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 270 g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 170 g caster sugar
- 250 ml buttermilk or sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 80 ml groundnut oil or vegetable oil
- 150 g blueberries
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180c (350f) (gas mark 4). Sift your flour, baking powder and sugar together in a bowl. Stir to mix.
- Break the eggs into a mixing jug with the buttermilk, oil and vanilla extract. Whisk until smooth. Along with the blueberries, stir into the dry ingredients until just combined.
- Spoon mixture into cases.
- Bake for 12-18 minutes depending on size: less for small muffins, more for large ones. They are ready when a cocktail stick just comes out dry.
I could totally wake up to this homey beautiful muffins every morning Sarah! Lovely!! 🙂
What wonderful muffins! Blueberries are so delicious…
Cheers,
Rosa