It's true to say that we've failed you here at Sorted Food
over the last six years because we've never made American blueberry muffins.
Until now!
This is one of those recipes that once
you've weighed everything out
and you do the exact measurements
it's pretty much mix it all together- it takes no time at all
So all your dry ingredients into one bowl
thats plain flour, sugar, baking powder and a pinch of salt
and then give it a stir.
While I'm doing that why don't
you do all the wet stuff in that bowl?
That's the buttermilk, eggs, oil
and a drop of vanilla.
Whisk it up.
Friends.
So unlike a cake sponge which would traditionally
have butter... I guess
this has got oil and thats what kinda what helps to make it 'muffiny'
The oil brings out the 'muff'
Vanilla brings out the...what?
Oil brings out the muff
Yeah... I guess so
It makes it more 'Muffy'
Yep...
That is well mixed.
Fantastic!
I should be knighted.
The next mixing comes when you put wet into dry
and then you combine the whole thing.
We've been told- Top Tip from you guys
don't over work your muffin mix!
Why?
Because if you stretch the gluten too much
you end up with chewy muffins rather than light, airy ones
So literally just before it is all combined...
...then add in the blueberries
Because if you wait until it's combined
then add blueberries then you are gonna combine more
and thats over combining.
Well you don't wanna do that do you.
Also, remember you are not restricted to just putting
'blue-bs' in your 'muffs' you could also put 'straw-bs',
you could put 'rasp-bs', you could put white 'chocs'
It's entirely up to you.
And then throw about 3/4 of your blueberries into the mix
and saving the other 1/4 back so we can sprinkle a few
on top later on
It's imperative that you gets lots of blueberries in here
Because you want them all to be in your muffins and then pop
when you bite into them
That kinda purple splurge inside of a muffin
and there is nothing worse than biting into a blueberry muffin
and not getting any blueberries
Fact.
...Starbucks...
...Nothing...Worse..
Scoop it all into here
This piping bag bit is completely optional
because you can just spoon them into your muffin cases
But, because we've got these ones
with kinda the 'ears'
It's very easy to end up getting some on that and that burned
and it doesn't look great.
It's rubbish!
So, go the extra mile...
fork out on a 5p piping bag...treat yourself!
Blueberry muffins are the things that sometimes get
confused with chiwawas aren't they?
[Laughs] is that the one?
How much are you filling these cases?
About 3/4 because they'll rise up
proper because of all the raising agent
and if you do it right you should get 10
...we did it wrong
If you get overzealous you need to go back
and scoop a little bit out of each
Too generous with your 'muff' mix
Now were going to throw a few more blueberries on top
and then sprinkle with demerara sugar
for a lovely crunch.
I think it is all about texture with a muffin
because you get that light spongy airy bit,
a pop of blueberry where in the oven it explodes
and then the crunchy top.
Yeah.
Just like I said.
..Sorted...Sorted...
But you can see once you've weighed the ingredients out
its a really easy recipe any idiot could do it. (Mike: Sorted.)
Now they key to a good muffin is an early rise,
so these are going to go into a hot oven at 220 degrees celsius
but as soon as you put them in, turn the oven down to 180
so they get that inital heat
and then they bake at 180 for 25 minutes
There you go, not a lot more to add,
we've taken them out the oven, we've let them cool
and there are our American blueberry muffins
Sorted.
Good blueberry 'popage'.
I like this already,
because this comes away from that
and thats always a good sign.
thats the sign of a good muffin,
look you can see all the little blueberry pops.
Right I wanna see
eat it
What?
Eat the muffin.
Break it first, surely.
You wanna see what you're about dive into
Okay,
just an observation
Anytime I've ever seen a female,
and I'm not being gender specific here,
this is just an example but,
whenever I see a female eating a muffin,
they don't get any mess anywhere,
they sit there and they just do this.
You mean like I just did?
I would just open that up and just do that.
Back to the muffin.
Sorry.
We certainly haven't missed out on blueberries on the inside have we?
They are there.
All the way through- that's a good muffin
And if you don't believe us,
then you'll need to bake them for yourselves.
To do that you'll need to go to Sorted Food for the recipe.
Excellent link- we nearly forgot that...