Blueberry Streusel Muffins

Blueberry Streusel Muffins

This was my second attempt at muffins, and I sure was happy with the outcome! My muffin pan had been lying around for a very long time, pleading to be used, and Blueberry muffins have been in my wishlist for an equally long time too.
Few days back I had watched Ina Garten of Barefoot Contessa - Food Network make Blueberry Streusel Muffins,which looked very appealing, but I had not watched her making it from the start.When I browsed for the recipe, I found that it used sour cream,which I did not prefer, as both S and I have a dislike for it. So my search continued, and the recipe for the muffins was put together, as follows:

Ingredients:

2 cups All purpose flour
1 1/2 tsps Baking powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) Unsalted butter, softened
1 cup Sugar
2 Large eggs
1/2 cup Whole milk
2 cups Blueberries, fresh or frozen

Streusel Topping:

1/2 cup Brown sugar
1/3 cup Flour
1/4 cup Unsalted butter, softened
1/2 tsp Cinnamon, can use a little more if you like the flavor



Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350F. If using muffin/cupcake paper liners, line the muffin pan with them. If not, grease the pan with butter/oil.
2. For the streusel topping, mix the brown sugar,flour,butter and cinnamon with a fork. The ingredients have to be mixed well, and would have the texture of wet sand, when done.You could do the mixing with your hand, it is much easier. Keep the prepared streusel topping aside.
3. For the dry ingredients, whisk together the flour,baking powder and salt in a small bowl.Set aside.
4. In a bigger bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Next,add the eggs and whole milk. Add the flour mixture to this and stir until just combined. Do not over mix.
5. Fold in the blueberries into the batter very gently.
6. With a spoon or an ice cream scoop, fill the muffin cups with the batter upto 3/4th full. Crumble the streusel topping on each muffin cup batter.
7. Bake at 350F for 20 to 25 mins until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
8. Makes 12 jumbo muffins. I put little less batter in the muffin pans, for fear of the batter overflowing, as this was only my second attempt at making muffins. So I had a little extra batter and streusel topping, which I put in a loaf pan and baked as a cake :)

Enjoy :)