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Blueberry Muffins

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Alternative BakingOK, I get a few complaints: Does everything have to be crazy and have wild things like jalapenas or srirachi or beets? Can’t you just cook sweet, normal things?
Hey: some people appreciate a mad genius baker.
Still, I guess the critics have their point, so this one is for the folks who don’t want everything they eat to be some sort of experiment.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups flour (Whole wheat, white, both, as you wish)Blueberry Muffins (1)
  • ½ cup of sugar
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ tsp ginger
  • ¼ tsp cloves
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg
  • 1 ½ cup blueberries (one would think fresh are better, but I think frozen might be)
  • ½ cup almonds
  • ½ cup apple sauce
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ cup buttermilk or Greek yoghurt or sour cream
  • ½ cup oil (it might work without this, especially since there is apple sauce; I liked making it with coconut oil.)

Step 1, Prepare Ye the way: Preheat the oven to 350°, either grease the muffin tins or put in the cupcake liners (I usually spray a little canola oil in the bottom of these to make things come out easier). I get 2 dozen medium sized muffins out of this mix.

Blueberry Muffins (3)Step 2, sifting the dry ingredients: In one bowl crumble up the brown sugar, then sift (mix if you don’t have a sifter) in the flour, white sugar, ginger, baking soda, and salt. Mix thoroughly.

Step 3, mixing the wet ingredients: In another bowl, mix the blueberries, almonds, apple sauce, vanilla, eggs, buttermilk, and oil.Blueberry Muffins (6)

Step 4, combining the big mess: Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and mix well. You want to make sure the individual bits of apple are each coated to keep them from getting too clumpy.  The consistency should be much firmer than batter, but a little more liquid than cookie dough.

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Step 5, baking: Fill two dozen or so muffin tins. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. See how they look. Stick a toothpick in one and see if it comes out battery.

 

Step 6, sharing: As always, these are great for breakfast, or for a Blueberry Muffins (8)gentle afternoon tea. If you have to work Labor Day while everybody else gets to go have fun, share them with your crew. Randomly plant them for friends to find.