Honey Muffin

Taneasha has been telling me lately that I don't make enough chocolate stuff.

So I made honey-blueberry muffins.

Apparently I'm feeling a little contrary today. Today. Ha.

Honey Muffins with Berries

2 cups flour
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
1-1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 tsp cardamom
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup honey
1/3 cup orange juice
1/3 cup plain yogurt (greek style if you have it)
1/3 cup vegetable oil (peanut works)

2/3 c berries
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp orange juice

 

Preheat oven to 400°F and line your muffin cups.

Realize there was no honey in your ingredients pic. Honey muffins and no honey...

In a big bowl, combine all the dry stuff: flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cardamom, sugar. Yes, sugar. I know it usually goes into the wet stuff, or the butter so it will dissolve first, but, as I said, I’m feeling contrary today.

I’m a little concerned about this recipe because my yogurt is a wee bit thicker than your typical yogurt.

Seriously, you could spread this stuff on a bagel and eat it like cream cheese.

The yogurt, honey, and orange juice can be piled into one cup, measure by displacement.

In another bowl, mix all the wet stuff: yogurt, honey, juice, eggs, oil, vanilla.

Before you mix the wet and dry, make sure your berries are thawed. Even looking at the volume in the second bowl, I was still worried about the liquid content.

So, I added a tablespoon of honey and a tablespoon of juice to a pan with them, and just melted everything. You don’t want them warm, just melted.

And dammit, no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get a shot of the orange juice being poured into the pan.

Stir the wet stuff into the dry until it’s just barely mixed. Hm, doesn’t look too dry. This could pass for muffins. But, I’ve got the berries all melted, so in they go.

Again, stir until just mixed. Berries do weird stuff when you mix and bake them. If you stir them too much, they’ll actually turn green. I can't decide if these are green or purple... There's a reason I wear a lot of black.

I had enough for 13 muffins.

The 13th muffin.

I'm still having a bit of trouble with my oven. This time, I erred on the side of too hot - probably at least 425. The muffins were golden on top after only 8 minutes, but still gooey inside. By 15 minutes, they looked like this.

Muffin 13, despite the heat, still lost it's peak in the middle.

I think I need new baking powder.

But heat was definitely a factor in these.

They are tasty though. Very caramelly in flavour as well as colour. And the honey really comes through. I think next time, I'll omit the sugar and add a bit more honey. They're really quite sweet. More blueberries too. Or maybe none?

At least they're not green anymore?