Blueberry Gems Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly coat muffin pans with nonstick cooking spray, set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in the center of flour mixture, set aside.
• In a separate bowl, stir together egg whites, orange juice, oil and vanilla. Add egg white mixture all at once to the flour mixture; stir just until moistened. Fold in blueberries. Spoon into prepared muffin cups, filling each about 2/3 full.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 18 minutes, or until golden and toothpick inserted into centers comes out clean. Cool slightly before removing from pans. Serve warm with butter.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. In a bowl whisk together whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup toasted wheat germ, baking powder, salt, and 2/3 cup brown sugar. Make a well in center of bowl and add milk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla extract. Gently mix until just combined. Fold in blueberries.
• Divide batter among muffin cups. Combine 2 tablespoons toasted wheat germ, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, and rolled oats in a small bowl. Sprinkle over tops of muffins. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 20 to 22 minutes. Let sit in pan 10 minutes. Transfer muffins to a rack to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400F; line twelve muffin cups with paper liners.
• Combine first 4 ingredients in small saucepan; stir over medium heat until butter melts; cool until mixture is warm to touch; beat in eggs.
• Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into large bowl; add milk mixture and stir just until blended; fold in blueberries (or raspberries).
• Divide batter equally among prepared muffin cups; Bake until golden and tester comes out clean, about 15-20 minutes.
• Variation: You can use raspberries instead of blueberries.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease and flour 12 muffin cups.
• In first bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and the 1/2 cup sugar.
• In second bowl, combine the butter, egg and milk.blend well.
• Pour the wet ingredients into the flour mixture and stir until combined (batter will be lumpy).
• Gently fold the blueberries into the batter.
• Spoon the batter into the muffin cups. Each one should be about two-thirds full.
• Bake 10 minutes and remove from the oven. Sprinkle the muffins with the granulated white or brown sugar.
• Return muffins to the oven and bake an additional 10 to 20 minutes until the tops are golden brown.
• Let cool 10 minutes.