Blueberry Muffin Madness!

Hallo intar-wubs!

I feel better. My last post was written in a cranky, sleep-deprived delirium. Yes, I realize I posted it at like 3:30, stfu.

Since that time, I have had some lunch (and some cheesecake and some muffins) and I feel better now. Also, I went shopping for baking paraphernalia YAY.

Okay, so as you know last week I was called out by McK and he ordered me to bake him some blueberry muffins. I, being the enter-pe-noor that I am, charged him $10. For 20 muffins. I am such a sucker.

BLUEBERRY MUFFIN MADNESS:
(recipe from allrecipes.com)

You will need:
4 cupps flour
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup softened butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups frozen blueberries, unthawed

(OPTIONAL) FOR LE MUFFIN TOPPING:
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

HOW TO MAKE MUFFINS OF WONDER AND DELIGHT*:

0. Preheat oven to 375 F.

1. Take flour, baking powder & salt, dump in bowl.


2. In a separate bowl, cream butter & sugar.

(My butter was frozen, so I cut it up into strips for easy creaming.)

Er... we may be having some technical difficulties here. See, I'm at Felder's folks' house today and there is a suspicious lack of butter/sugar creaming implement. Whatever it's called. Maybe a fork will work?

No.
How about a knife?

Nuh-uh.
Meat tenderizer?

Nyet.
Okay, time for drastic measures. Take off the rings, re-wash the hands... and knead.

Yep. Of course it worked.

3. Add eggs, milk & vanilla, mix well.




(Humor me and pretend that this is well mixed, okay? Thanks.)

4. Stir into dry ingredients until you have batter. Recipe says "until just moistened" but I kept thinking "oh good, I'm done" and then flipping over the dough and discovering a rich vein of pure flour right in the middle of my nice dough. So just use your judgment on this, I guess.)



Please try not to throw stones at me, the lighting is really awful in these.

5. Fold in frozen blueberries. Whatever that means. FYI - in case you haven't picked up on it by now, I don't know what I'm doing. If it looks right, then you probably did it right.


Perfect.

6. Put the batter in the paper cups (or I suppose directly in the baking pans if you like) (thought - it would be interesting to make muffins on a cookie tray. Like muffin bites. Mmm.)


7. Mix the topping together in a bowl and sprinkle over the muffins. Stick the muffins in the oven & cook for 20-25 min. Why? Cause I said. What? You wanna make something of it? PUNK?


Okay, you really can't see the topping on the muffinlets, but I swear it's there.



8. Devour, because OMG THESE ARE AMAZING MUFFINS. I gave a muffin to my FMFIL** & FFIL*** and they both had mouth-gasms. ^_____^


I made 23 muffins. OMG.

Side note: My FMFIL has a spectacularly clean and well-stocked kitchen and also these bowls. Are these not the most adorable mixing bowls you have ever seen???


It's a cow bowl. And the little stabilizing feet make it look like an udder. OMG. SO. CUTE.

Side side note: I took me way too long to write this because of YouTube. And music videos. And this song.

Side side side note: Maybe cheesecake next week? Y/N?

Side side side side note: The best part of baking is giving the product to someone else and seeing their reaction. This is sometimes the worst part of baking, too.

Side side side side side note: The Brother got a haircut. It's extreme and also intense. Not baking-related, but I'll post a pic soon.

*Also of blueberries. And possibly the devil because I cannot stop eating them.
**Future Felder In Law
***Future MomFelder In Law


<3,
TWC