Lemon Blueberry-Sugar Muffins

February 22nd, 2011 by justJENN

It’s Lemon Fest 2011, people!
Get your pitchforks, storm the castle and ask for lemons!
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One of my fave places is the Spice Station in Silverlake, they have an amazing array of sugars and spices that all make for great recipe inspiration.

The last time I was there I picked up some Blueberry Sugar. A nice large granule of sugar infused with fresh blueberry. Amazing! I thought it’d make a great topping for some lemon-y blueberry muffins. While not pretty, they sure are tasty. But hey, looks aren’t everything.

ingredients:
1-3/4 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup oil
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
juice of one lemon
zest of one lemon
1-1/2 cups blueberries
1 Tablespoon flour
blueberry sugar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prep a muffin pan with liners. (you will only get about 10 muffins.)

In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar and baking powder, whisk to combine.

Add the oil, egg, milk, lemon juice and lemon zest. Stir until JUST combined.

In a small bowl toss the blueberries with the flour, that sort of helps keep the blue color from bleeding into the batter.

Add the blueberries to the batter and just fold until combined.

Fill the muffin cups about 3/4 of the way full. Top with a sprinkling of blueberry sugar.

Bake for 15-20 minutes depending on your oven. Let cool on a wire rack.