A number of years ago, a couple in North Tryon, PEI, began a high-bush blueberry U-pick. The berries are so easy to pick and the bushes are just laden with these huge plump blueberries. They are super yummy in Blueberry Muffins!
Grower, Jennifer Murray, says she has five varieties of these tasty blueberries growing in this field.
Unlike their tiny wild blueberry counterparts that grow low to the ground, these high bush blueberries are easy and clean picking – no blueberry-stained fingers.
It takes mere minutes to pick these blueberries!
I love these berries in a bowl with sugar and milk, on top of cereal, waffles, and pancakes. They are lovely sweet berries.
Today, I am featuring these blueberries in muffins. I have purposely chosen a light-colored batter that is cake-like in texture so that the blueberries really show up. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
I like the flavor combination of blueberries and orange so I have added some orange juice and finely grated orange rind to the batter. I used my square muffin tins for these muffins but they would be equally as lovely (and just as tasty!) in traditional round muffin tins. I do a lot of batch-baking and freezing of muffins and sweet breads to have them ready for weekday coffeebreaks at work. I split and butter the muffins before individually wrapping and storing them in the freezer. The benefit of these square tins is that I find the muffins pack away easier than the round ones do plus they add variety and interest to appearance of the baked goods.
[Printable recipe follows at end of posting]
Blueberry Muffins
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
3½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 tbsp finely grated orange rind
2 eggs
¾ cup milk
¼ cup orange juice
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla
1½ cups fresh or frozen blueberries, tossed with about 1 tbsp flour
Method:
Assemble ingredients.
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Sift dry ingredients together into a large bowl.
Stir in the grated orange rind.
Make a well in the centre of the ingredients. Set bowl aside.
In a two-cup measuring cup or small bowl, beat eggs lightly.
Add milk, orange juice, oil, and vanilla. Stir or whisk together well.
Pour wet ingredients into the well in dry ingredients.
Stir just until most of the dry ingredients are incorporated.
Gently fold blueberries into batter.
Do not overmix. This will create a tough muffin and one that has blue batter!
Spoon mixture into greased or paper-lined muffin tins, filling each between ⅔ and ¾ full.
Bake 16-20 minutes or until muffins spring back to a light touch and/or a cake tester inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.
Yield: 12 muffins
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Blueberry Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 3½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp finely grated orange rind
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup milk
- ¼ cup orange juice
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1½ cups fresh or frozen blueberries, tossed with about 1 tbsp flour
Instructions
- Assemble ingredients.
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Sift dry ingredients together into a large bowl. Stir in the grated orange rind. Make a well in the centre of the ingredients. Set bowl aside.
- In a 2-cup measuring cup or small bowl, beat eggs lightly. Add milk, orange juice, oil, and vanilla. Stir or whisk together well. Pour into well in dry ingredients. Stir just until most of the dry ingredients are incorporated.
- Gently fold blueberries into batter. Do not overmix. This will create a tough muffin and one that has blue batter!
- Spoon mixture into greased or paper-lined muffin tins, filling each between ⅔ and ¾ full.
- Bake 16-20 minutes or until muffins spring back to a light touch and/or a cake tester inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.
Recipe Notes
Yield: 11-12 muffins, depending on size of muffin tins.
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