Blueberry Muffins

I know, I've been seriously neglecting my assignments. But as I mentioned, I'm planning a wedding over here, interwebs. What's that? Tina had to move with a baby strapped to her back? Well Tina's a million times more talented than I am, interwebs, so shush. Besides, how do you expect me to make Irish Soda bread and then eat the whole loaf in a couple of hours before it turns to stone? I need to fit into my wedding dress and that's not the best way to go about it.

This week's challenge is Blueberry muffins. I think I need to have a little chat with Tina & Misty about availability and seasons. You see my muffins only have 1/2 a pint of blueberries because I refuse to spend $20 on a full pint. That's what happens when they have to come all the way from Chile.... or when I decide to walk to Sobey's instead of drive to the Supercentre, because I likely could have gotten them for like $8 instead of $10.

Sadly I could pretty much only get eggs, milk and butter from Culinarium this time. I like the milk a lot. Something about getting milk in glass bottles seems so wholesome.



One thing I have improved on since our first assignment is my mise en place. I'm constantly putting things away and wiping up before my spills crust into glue, a definite improvment. I also managed to not coat my dog in flour or icing sugar. Also a step up.

I'm still making do with just my handheld mixer... I'm getting better at following the time tips, if Julia says light and fluffy should take 3 minutes, then I whip for 3 minutes damn it.
Also, I'm not ashamed to admit that, often times, at this butter and sugar step I'm tempted to stop and just eat the whole bowl:

Kristina messaged to see if I'd tasted my muffins yet. Apparently Andrew thought her muffins tasted like "eating a stick of butter wrapped in paper with blueberries". Which to me doesn't sound like a problem... but for the record, mine did not taste like that. My final outcome seems to look quite close to hers though, so I'm not sure what the difference was:


Also, considering that I only used half the amount of berries, they turned out pretty full of berries :)

I really like these and will probably make them again!