Muffin 007
By esther on Monday, January 22 2007, 16:04 - Breakfast of champions - Permalink
You start out making these muffins on special occasions, as a thank you to a friend, or for a whole rowdy group over for weekend brunch, or for a quite birthday breakfast. But once you make them a few times, you start finding excuses to make them again and again. My excuse this weekend was waking up early. Not much of an excuse really, but Sunday morning tasted so much better over a warm muffin.
For these muffins, I like to use my round silicone mold for miniature cakes. Usually, I'm a die hard for my aluminum muffin pans that were passed on to me by my mom because they give you that really nice browned bottom. In this case, the silicone bakes a softer, denser muffin which is a good counterpoint to the crunchy crumble topping plus they come out looking like elegant little blueberry pillars of cakey goodness.
Keep in mind though that these babies do pack a punch with fourteen tablespoons of butter, one egg and a whopping 1/2 cup of crème fraîche. So bake them for no reason, enjoy a few yourself and then send the rest off with the first unsuspecting neighbor you come across.
Blueberry crumble muffins
(a slight variation on my mom's recipe)
Muffin ingredients
1/2 cup salted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup crème fraîche
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup wild blueberries
Topping ingredients
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt
6 Tbsp salted butter
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy then add egg. In a separate bowl combine dry ingredients. In a second bowl combine milk, crème fraîche and vanilla.
In yet another bowl, combine all the dry topping ingredients and then with a pastry cutter, cut in the butter.
Combine flour and milk mixture alternately into the creamed butter. Fold in blueberries. Do not over stir. Finish with topping. Pour mixture into forms.
Bake at 200°C (400°F) for 30 minutes.
Comments
Esther,
These muffins look so good!
I think they're the perfect excuse for getting up earlier in the morning - what a delicious way of starting the day!
Mmmm... I forgot about this indulgence! I have been busy with the whole grain healthy "Marvelous Morning Muffins" et cetera, but EVERYONE needs a reason to kick back with the paper in front of the fireplace with coffee on a wintry Sunday morning. Just as an aside for adventurous readers my berry of choice is raspberry. Heaven in each bite!
So yummy! I love a good treat, and have to hunt for the passerby or I will eat them all myself!