Berry Explosion Muffins Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Sift the dry ingredients together.
• Mix in the eggs, oil, butter, milk and vanilla.
• Fold in your choice of berries.
• (I get a blend of frozen berries at my grocery store--raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries. These make a great mixed berry muffin,and they're much more economical than fresh. But use what you have) Pour into lightly greased, standard 12 muffin pan, or large 6 muffin pan.
• (Tip-an ice cream scoop makes easy work of this task, and muffins are the same size.) Bake for 30-40 minutes, start checking at 30 minutes or so.
• Cool in pan on rack for about 5 minutes, then turn on out on rack to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add berries and toss gently. In another bowl, combine the eggs, sour cream, oil and vanilla. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened., Fill greased muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 18-22 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm., Berry Cream Lemon Muffins: Prepare muffin recipe as directed, except substitute 1 cup lemon yogurt for the sour cream and add 2 teaspoon grated lemon peel with the vanilla., Berry Streusel Muffins: Prepare muffin recipe as directed. For topping, combine 3 tablespoons each all-purpose flour and quick-cooking oats, 2 tablespoons sugar and 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon. Cut in 2 tablespoons cold butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over muffins before baking.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/ fan 180C and very lightly butter a 12-hole muffin tin. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl. In another bowl, lightly beat the eggs, then stir in the melted butter, milk and honey. Add to the flour with the remaining ingredients. Combine quickly without overworking (it's fine if there are some lumps left - you want it gloopy rather than fluid). Spoon the mixture into the muffin tin. Bake for 20-25 minutes until well risen and pale golden on top.
• Leave in the tin for a few minutes before turning out. When cool, they'll keep in an airtight tin for two days. (Can be frozen for up to 1 month.)

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425 F.
• Put a paper baking cup in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups, or grease just the bottoms of 12 muffin cups.
• Slightly smash strawberries in large bowl, using fork.
• Stir in sugar, oil and eggs until mixed.
• Stir in other ingredients just until moistened.
• Spoon batter into muffin cups.
• Bake 15 to 18 minutes or until light golden brown or toothpick poked in center comes out clean.
• Cool 5 minutes.
• Loosen sides of muffins from pan if needed, and take them out of the pan.
• Makes 12 muffins.
• Tip: If you do not have fresh strawberries, you can use frozen strawberries that you have thawed and drained.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• In a cup, mix ground chia seeds with 1/2 cup water and let sit until it forms a gel, about 5 minutes. In a high-powered blender, combine white beans, pitted dates, banana, half of the thawed strawberries (leaving the other half to be put in the muffins whole), chia seed gel, and vanilla and almond extracts. Once blended, combine with the dry mixture and stir thoroughly until well combined.
• Drain the remaining strawberries and stir in, along with the blueberries and raspberries, so they are evenly distributed throughout.
• Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake papers and, using a spoon, scoop in batter. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes and serve warm.
• To make cookies, drop batter by spoonfuls onto a foil-lined cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients. In another bowl, beat the eggs, milk and butter; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in berries. , Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 375° for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add berries. In a separate bowl, mix eggs, sour cream, oil, vanilla, and optional jam or filling. Add to dry mixture and mix. Fill cups 1/2 full, drop in 1/2 tsp. jam, then more dough. Bake 15 to 20 minutes.

Steps:

• Pour raspberry vodka, watermelon vodka, orange vodka, strawberry vodka, sour mix, and cranberry juice into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Cover and shake until the outside of the shaker is frosty. Strain into a highball glass and serve.