I fondly remember the first thing I ever baked was a blueberry cake.
We have a little yellow stool that belonged to my great-grand mom, and when I was younger, I would move it into the corner of the kitchen to cook with my mom. One night, I decided to bake a blueberry cake. The base of it was Bisquick, and from what I remember, it was really quite good. Pity I don't remember how I made it.
My love for these beautiful berries developed early. Even today, it makes me giddy to just think about baking something with blueberries. It's always a treat for me since they are only on sale for a few weeks out of the entire year. We've stocked up on them plenty this season, so I'm looking forward to blueberry muffins in the winter.
On a side note, as you can tell Living the Gourmet is still not quite on it's feet yet. I know many of you have inquired about getting updates, and even requested that I write up a post in the near future about our journey from Blogger to WordPress. I would be happy to do so. There are quite a few questions I still have myself, so I think we could all really benefit from it. I will be planning a series of posts here on LTG that will focus entirely on becoming a website. For the time being however, if you are still experiencing problems receiving our updates on your Blog Reader, may I suggest signing up via email. It's really simple to do. The subscription box is right on the sidebar. 🙂
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy these Brown Sugar Blueberry Muffins. They are a fabulous treat in the morning with coffee. The crumble and drizzle are optional, but are totally worth the extra bit of time.
PrintBrown Sugar Blueberry Muffins
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 6 muffins 1x
Ingredients
For Blueberry Muffins:
- 4 tablespoons oil
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1-2 cups fresh blueberries
Brown Sugar Crumble:
- 1-2 tablespoons butter, cubed
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons flour
Simple Icing Drizzle:
- 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-2 teaspoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, whisk oil, sugar, egg, milk and sour cream until smooth.
- In a separate, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Add alternatively to the wet ingredients with the milk. Beginning and ending with the flour mixture.
- In small bowl, combine all ingredients for crumble. Mix until a crumbly mixture forms.
- Divide blueberry batter evenly between a greased muffin pan. Top each muffin with brown sugar crumble.
- Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until cake tester come clean. Leave the muffins to cool completely in the pan.
- For the icing, whisk above ingredients and drizzle each muffin generously. Allow a few minutes for icing to set before serving.
xo
-Tammy<3
**First image taken by M. Pappas; recipe developed by Catherine; post written by Tammy.
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Pure Grace Farms says
Oh goodness, these look delicious! Thanks for sharing. Stopping in from Thank Goodness it's Thursday. Have a great week.
Blessings,
Shari
Mary Frances says
Muffins do bring back such wonderful memories. We made cinnamon swirl ones for lunch every week and they were fun to make and fun to eat! Brown sugar and blueberries sound beyond amazing. A simple twist on the classic to make an incredible recipe!
Deb @ Frugal Little Bungalow says
I tried something new this morning after seeing something on WP Forums. I posted, then completely deactivated W3 Cache plugin, went and pinged Feedburner, and it looks as if the feed is working again on the blogrolls. Whether that was it, who knows…I have seen this issue on so many forums about the feed not updating then suddenly working again and it seems to occur over the years to people. ANother reader said she deleted me from her RSS reader then added me back and that worked for her. If you have that cache plugin try this for your next post...
I think I should turn the cache back on afterwards but am going to wait a bit! 🙂
Choc Chip Uru says
These muffins look so delicious, the brown sugar probably makes them even more rich 😀
Love your new site by the way!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Roz says
Blueberry muffins are so perfect for summer and I've just been blessed to go blueberry picking at a friend's farm! Thank you for the recipe.
Blessings,
Roz
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says
I LOVE blueberry muffins! I can't wait to give this a try. I really like your site's new dress. 🙂
Nee says
Hello Tammy , Catherine and Michael , I so hope I will get through this time , I know the kinks has to be worked out m I am really happy to be able to keep in touch .
Grow your cherry tree , the blooms smell deliciously good . Pinn the recipe . Thanks for sharing ,
Living the Gourmet says
Thank you so much, Nee!
I'm so happy everything is working again...there are still a few kinks still to resolve, but for the most part everything seems to be good...for now that is, I'm sure by this evening there will be something new to fix 😉
I always loved cherry trees..they are so attractive. I think it would look picturesque in the front yard.
Have a lovely day.
xo,
Tammy
Zainab @ Blahnik Baker says
Ohhhhh I love me a blueberry muffin!! The brown sugar addition here sounds amazing!!
PS: I read the thread above and even after clearing my cache the site is still loading as black background and white text. Just thought I should let you know 😉
Living the Gourmet says
Hmmm...you mean even after clearing the cache, the comment section is white on white??? The whole site is intended to be white on black. Thanks for the heads up, Zainab! 🙂
Big Daddy Dave says
Tammy, Blueberry muffins are one of my very favorites and this twist on them with brown sugar sounds really great! FYI, for some reason, I received 10 postings from Living the Gourmet all at one time... Nice looking blogsite! Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
Tanya Walton says
How wonderful...Blueberry muffins are one of my favourites...now if my blueberries would just hurry up and ripen!!