Blueberry Streusel Top Muffins

    Happy Thanksgiving American friends! 

    It is not Thanksgiving here in Canada, we celebrate back in October! Anywhooo, I hope wherever you are reading this, and whenever it is, that you can stop and find something to be thankful for! 

    So, I have a few recipes I've been fussing with, and I still love creating my own recipes, but the truth is, I'm often just surfing the web, looking for recipes that'll suit something I have in my mind, but spare me the grief of trial and error! 

    This is one of those recipes! I had nice, fresh blueberries in the summer, and wanted a simple and strait forward recipe that yielded deee-licious muffins! I also wanted a streusel top because I find that muffins that are just so crazy-delicious moist tend to get sticky on top. It's better than them getting dry on top, but still, I don't like sticky top muffins! And because I'm the kind of person who likes to freeze baked goods for later, if the tops are too moist, they get all icicle-y. Ya know? 

   Well, anyway, when these came out the first time looking like a million bucks, and then having all the teen staff at the summer camp I was cooking at DEVOUR them, I figured they were a good recipe! And the batches I made at home that friends and neighbours gobbled up confirmed that this recipe was a good one.    

    So, here it is, adapted oh so slightly from Chef Savvy and her Blueberry Streusel Muffin recipe! The muffins in my photos are (stupidly) shy on streusel! I made a double batch of the muffins when I was going to take the pictures, and didn't make enough topping, but when I realized it, I had already packed ingredients up, and done dishes, and I'm a little anal about cleaning and tidying as I go which can backfire in situations like these! Phew, what a run-on sentence!!! Also, the muffins I made at camp were a lot of "bakery style" with the domed top because the oven there isn't a weeny like my oven at home..... (sigh...)

​     Anyway, with a lot or a little toping, with the tops perfectly domed or not, these muffins are so good. For realz.

Blueberry Streusel Top Muffins
From "Blueberry Streusel Muffins" from Chef Savvy


Ingredients:

For the streusel Topping:

• 3 Tbs butter, melted
• ¾ Cup brown sugar
• ½ Cup flour
• 1 Tsp cinnamon

For the Muffins

• 2 Cups all purpose flour
• ½ Cup brown sugar
• ¼ Tsp salt
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• 1¼ Cup sour cream, plain yogurt, or buttermilk/sour milk (I use sour milk which I make by adding roughly 1 tablespoon of lemon juice into a measuring cup, then filling with milk to the 1 1/4 mark)
• ¼ cup vegetable oil
• 1 Large egg
• 1½ Cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)

Method:

Streusel Topping:

1. In a small bowl mix up the butter, brown sugar, flour and cinnamon until you've got a crumbly/sandy textured streusel. Set aside

For the Muffins:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees (this may seem high, but a high temperature is needed to get the tops of your muffins to dome up!). Prepare a muffin tin with a little cooking spray or butter, and line with muffin cups. This recipe makes 12-15 muffins.
2. In a large bowl whisk together the dry ingredients
3. In another bowl whisk up the wet ingredients - excluding the blueberries  
4. Add egg mixture to dry ingredients and fold together gently 
5. Fold in blueberries with some TLC. be kind to those berries, you don't want them all squished! 
6. Divide the batter into the prepared muffin tin, filling almost all the way to the top 
7. Sprinkle each muffin with the streusel
8. Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes or until muffins are set. Stick a toothpick or knife in the centre and make sure it comes out clean
9. Let cool slightly before pulling out of the muffin pan to cool completely

  The best way to eat these? Still warm, with some butter and honey. Yum!!! 

   Well, I wanted to have this posted earlier today. I also had a post ready for yesterday that I never got to actually finish and post. Last week the kids missed school on Friday because we drove to Toronto to see Matilda The Musical (which we had so much fun seeing!), then this week Monday was a snow-day, and Thursday was too - but we drove the kids to school (because we're mean) and because we had a meeting to be at, and also because we wanted to go into the school to be involved in the training for Caleb's new iPad. Again, with the run-on sentences! Then today was a P.A. day!!! So, I mean, this week was all wonky, and I didn't really get all the things done that I wanted to, but, oh well! I'm trying this new thing where I don't beat myself up about every failure, whether real or perceived. It's a hard task, but I think it's important to not be my #1 critic 24/7!!! 

    I will share next Thursday about my Caleb, my amazing Caleb and something that happened this past week that left me weeping like a sappy, happy Mother numerous times! 

     For now, just have a wonderful weekend, and I'll see ya next week! 


​xoxo