Another blueberry recipe coming your way - we can't get enough of fat blueberries in the summertime! Everyone needs a basic blueberry muffin recipe, especially since it's surprisingly hard to get a good one in the average cafe. They're often too cakey or sweet. These are light and fluffy, and just sweet enough to be a muffin - not a cupcake.
We like our muffins absolutely popping with blueberries, and we found that we like also them best in mini size - you're guaranteed to get lots of blueberries in every bite with a one-bite muffin. Try them! They're easy and quick.
Mini Blueberry Lemon Muffins
about 3 dozen mini muffins
2 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup light brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon rind (from about 2 small lemons; squeeze for juice as well)
Juice from the two lemons
1 1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup oil
1 egg
1 pint bluberries
Heat oven to 350°F. Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Whisk the egg, lemon zest and juice, milk and oil and add to the flour. Mix just until combined. Drop into mini muffin tins, lined for easy cleanup. Bake for about 15 minutes or until tops are golden and spring back when pressed.
(Image: Faith Hopler)
Very cute muffins, and very delicious-looking, too! I'm with you on cafe muffins; they're always way too sweet. I can't wait to try these.
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Made these last night (as full-sized muffins) and they're going like hot cakes!
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I like muffins with firm, golden, almost crisp tops--these look like they might be a good candidate. Does anyone have any tips for achieving the desired muffin effect?
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A question: Can someone quantify the amount of lemon juice (even roughly)? It could vary a great deal from lemon to lemon, no? Also, the juice isn't mentioned in the recipe ... do you just mix it with the wet ingredients?
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oops - thanks Eric. Fixed. Hard to guess at lemon juice - maybe between 2 tablespoons and 1/4 cup?
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I probably had somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 cup of lemon juice.
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I don't think I've ever seen blueberries pop out of muffins so well! I never would have thought to combine blueberry and lemon into a muffin, but these look great! Thanks!
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Hello ms Faith. Those muffins look so good. Just one thing. In the "How to" you have forgotten to write when to add the blueberries to the batter.
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