Cooking with Asia

Prep Time: 15 Min

Cook Time: 25 Min

Ready In: 40 Min

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour

• 1/3 cup sugar

• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

• 1 egg

• 1/3 cup milk

• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil

• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1 cup blueberries

Directions

1. In a bowl, combine the first six ingredients.

2. Combine the egg, milk, oil and vanilla.

3. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients just until moistened.

4. Gently fold in blueberries. Fill greased or paper-line muffin cups two-thirds full.

5. Bake at 375 degrees F for 25-27 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

6. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

This cooking lab we made blueberry muffins and I really enjoyed them. It was super easy to make them and they tasted delicious. When we were making these in my group we did pretty good on leaving some lumps in the batter and we were also fast workers so we had a lot of time to spare afterwards. When they came out of the oven they were a nice golden brown color and I think we took them out at the perfect time. The muffin that I tried was really good and I enjoyed that the whole wheat flour made it have a healthier flavor rather than it being too sweet. The one thing that we didn’t do so well was that we folded it in too much and the blueberries began to defrost and it made our dough blue. In the end though it didn’t look as bad as it did before it was baked. When we were making this I thought back to what we learned and knew to make a well in the dry ingredients so that I could add the wet ingredients into it. It made it easier to stir them together and it was more efficient so that we didn’t have to overmix the batter. If I ever do make this at home I'm thinking that I'd need to be even quicker to make sure that the muffins don’t become too blue. To make this at home I would also need to make sure that I don’t overmix the batter because occasionally I accidently overmix.