Blueberry Muffins

Recipe

Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 12 Minutes

Ingredients:

Muffins:

  • 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour

  • ⅔ cup white sugar

  • ½ teaspoon salt

  • 2 teaspoons baking powder

  • ⅓ cup vegetable oil

  • 1 egg

  • about ⅓ cup milk

  • 1 cup of blueberries

Crumble Top:

  • ½ cup white sugar

  • ⅓ cup all purpose flour

  • ¼ cup butter (cubed)

  • 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

How to make it:

  • Preheat Oven 400 degrees.

  • Grease muffin cups or line with muffin liners.

  • Combine flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder and whisk together.

  • DURING THE NEXT FOUR STEPS FOLLOW ALONG CLOSELY AND DO IN ORDER OF INSTRUCTIONS!! (the recipe turns weird if you don’t)

  • Pour vegetable oil (⅓ cup) into a 1 cup measuring cup.

  • Then add the egg into the measuring cup.

  • Add in milk to fill up the cup. It should be roughly ⅓ cup. However, just add in as much milk as the cup requires to fill it up.

  • Whisk this mixture together until it is all combined.

  • Add this mixture to the dry ingredients in the large bowl and mix together until combined.

  • Fold in the blueberries.

  • To make the crumble topping: mix together the sugar, flour cubed butter and cinnamon.

  • mix together with a fork (and your hands to get it really crumbly like). It should look like little sugar cinnamon clumps.

  • Add the muffin mixture into the muffin pan.

  • Sprinkle the crumble topping over the of the muffins.

  • Put in the over for 25 minutes.

Supplies Used:

  • Large bowl

  • medium bowl

  • Measuring cups

  • teaspoons

  • whisk (fork works great also)

  • rubber spatula

  • muffin liners

  • muffin pan

  • cutting board

  • knife

Baking Entry:

These muffins were the breakfast dessert of my childhood. My Mom would make these for breakfast during the holidays and birthdays. To this day I still request them every chance I get. I know how to make them, but I do think my mom makes them better!

My mom has always said that this was the easiest muffin recipe every and that it has never failed her once. Well, it failed me the first time I tried to make these muffins. Somehow they ended up uncooked in the middle and brunt on the outside. I knew something was wrong with the mixture before the muffins even went into the oven. When I was panic calling my mom because the muffin mixture looked weird, I realized that I did not do the vegetable oil, egg, and milk portion of the recipe correctly. These muffins were also the first thing I baked in my baking journey, so I felt really defeated. However, I took some time to bake other good and came back to this recipe. I tried again, following the instruction closely, and they came out fabulously.

From this recipe I learn that sometime you will fail at a recipe and most times it is due to a very simple error. When this happens, don’t give up on the recipe. Take some time to cool down and try other recipes. Come back to the recipe you failed at with new and fresh eyes. Take your time on it and maybe it will turn out amazing! Also, someones easiest recipe might also be another person most challenging recipe. We are all different bakers with different experiences and skillsets. Never stop trying to recipes!!