Steve's Kitchen · Afters
Blueberry Muffins
For the Topping:
- 1/4 Cup Raw Sugar (Turbinado Cane Sugar)
- 1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
- 3 Tbl Unsalted Butter, COLD cut into 4 pieces
For the Muffins:
- 1 & 1/2 Cup All Purpose Flour
- 3/4 Cup granulated White Sugar
- 2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/3 Cup Coconut Oil
- 1 Large egg
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- * Buttermilk (approx 1/3 cup, see steps below for amount)
- 1 Cup Fresh Blueberries
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
Set aside a 6 cup
jumbo Muffin Pan (if it is non stick, no liners are needed)
In a small bowl, combine the coarse sugar, 1/3 cup flour and cold
butter.
Using a pastry cutter, mix the topping well, until it is
fine and crumbly.
Store in refrigerator while making muffin
batter.
Mix all dry:
In a large bowl, whisk together the 1
and 1/2 cups of flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
Set aside.
Mix all the Wet:
Using a 2 Cup Glass Measuring cup
as a mixing bowl...
Break egg and whisk,
Add Coconut oil
and Vanilla extract and mix well
Then add buttermilk to bring
liquid ingredients to 1 cup total (8 fluid onces)
*(it will
be around 1/3 cup of buttermilk)
Combine:
Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture
and stir gently with a wooden spoon or spatula
until just a few
streaks of flour remain.
Add the blueberries and mix gently until
evenly distributed in the muffin batter.
Divide batter evenly between 4 of the 6 muffin cups (fill the other
two 3/4 with water)
Sprinkle the top of each muffin generously
with the topping.
Bake muffins on the center rack of oven for 28 to 30 minutes,
or
ntil toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean
Watch
muffins to be sure they do not overcook.
Allow to cool completely. Store in an air-tight container for up to 2 days.