Monday 29 September 2008

Blackberry Muffins


Blackberry Muffins
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter at room temp
1 cup caster/white granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt (a pinch)
2 1/2 cups fresh or frozen blackberries
2 cups self- raising flour
1/2 cup milk

Topping
1 tablespoon light brown sugar
2 tablespoons porridge oats
Heat oven to 375° F (180° C ish).

Grease 18 regular-size muffin cups (or 12 large size muffins) or line muffin tins with paper cases.
In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.

Add eggs one at a time, beating after each.

Beat in vanilla, baking powder and salt. With spoon, fold in half of flour then half of milk into batter.

Fold in the remainder of the flour, and then the remainder of the milk.

Gently fold blackberries into the batter and spoon into muffin cups.

Combine topping ingredients and sprinkle onto each muffin.

Bake 20 minutes, or until golden brown and springy to touch.

cooks notes: we picked our blackberries from the thicket in the park around the corner from our house. M says these taste nicer than my blueberry muffins. I'm not the biggest blackberry fan but it was fun picking the berries together as a family, and it made me remember all the times I used to pick them as a child to be made into blackberry pie served with vanilla ice-cream. H said he wasn't going to eat any as he was in a stroppy mood but he still managed to eat two.

4 comments:

Frizbe said...

yummy.

jillytacy said...

I'm not a big blackberry fan either but the photo is gorgeous! It makes the muffins look irresistibly scrumptious! If we weren't an ocean apart I'd stop by to have one.

Kayanna said...

Wow, thank you so much for sharing the recipe. One of my favorite memories as a kid is picking blackberries in the woods behind our house and having stained fingers for weeks in the summer! I will be sure to try these!

Saucy said...

Those look like something you'd buy at Starbucks for five dollars only I bet they taste better!