Lemon-Blueberry Muffins

Submitted by Tonkcats

• Ready In: 32mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 12 muffins

ingredients

• 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1⁄2 cup sugar (plus)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest, grated
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup milk
• 4 tablespoons butter or 4 tablespoons margarine, melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1⁄2 cups blueberries

directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Grease a 12 cup muffin tin.
3. In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Stir in walnuts and lemon peel.
4. In a small bowl beat egg, milk, butter and vanilla.
5. Pour egg mixture into dry ingredients and stir just until flour is moistened (batter will be lumpy). Fold in blueberries.
6. Spoon into muffin cups and bake 20 to 22 minutes or until tops are golden.

Reviews

[Tiffany]

Very yummy muffins. I tripled the amount of lemon rind to be added, and the result was wonderful. Very easy to make, and the blueberries remain whole and plump.

 

[henrysmommy]

This was my first try at muffins from scratch and they were TERRIFIC! Easy to make too!

 

[Karla E.]

Super moist and delicious. Aftwr reading some of the negative reviews on them being dense and not enough lemon I used frozen blueberries and didn't thaw them and also zested a whole lemon and added 1 tbsp of lemon juice.

 

[Jora6512]

I made two batches of these yesterday. Right out from the oven, I was unimpressed: the muffins seemed dry. HOWEVER, I left the muffins in a ziplock overnight. This morning they are TERRIFIC. I think that the overnight ziplock treatment helped redistribute the moisture. I did not use lemon zest. Instead, I squeezed a half-lemon into the batter. Also, the batter SEEMED very wet, but it cooked up beautifully. I am going to make more today.

 

[melamoore]

Made these on a rainy day - turned out perfect! They turned out soft, fluffy and full of flavor! Im going to sub cranberries for blueberries too sometime in the future (and maybe even try orange zest to make a whole new recipe). Either way this base is delicious thank you!