Mini Blueberry Yogurt Muffin

Last week, i bought a box of blueberries from Chile.
So that i can have a hearty granolar breakfast with the so-thought sourish berries.
Been missing the self picked blueberries that i had for breakfast
while i'm staying with Gerd at Sweden.
Those small yet power pack delicious sourish berries that
she handpicked them in the summer behind her house and freeze for use during winter.
She make swedish pancake for us during one dinner,
and we had handpicked blueberries, cloudberries, homemade rhubarb & lingon berry jam
to go with the pancakes!!! Absolutely D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!
To further side track, i love love love the pink homemade rhuberb lemonade!! ahhh...

Back to my own store bought blueberries.
The berries that i bought are called blueberries, no mistake.
But they so absolutely doesnt taste like what i had in Sweden.
Firstly, they're NOT sourish at all, not a tint at all!
They're big and plump, unlike the skinny wild blueberries.
Instead, i think i taste a hint of sweetness in it.
I dunno is its due to the different species,
what i bought was called 'Southern Sun' from Chile.
So, i don't really like it with my yogurt nor with my granolar...
So instead i made them into muffin for today's breakfast.

Didnt have enough berries to make a standard 12 muffin,
so i make them into mini muffin.
This time round, i didnt use the staple muffin recipe that i love from Nigella.
Instead i tried a new recipe from a book that my colleague got for my bday last yr!
It didnt turn out too bad.
The muffin is soft and fluffy with a sticky top developed overnight.
BUT, it turns out that the blueberries baked, is nothing short of nice.
Maybe its due to the sweetness of the berries.
You dun get the usual sourish taste from the fruit while eating the muffin.
Maybe this will be a good species for baking.
I still miss the smallish sour berries that i had for dinner
and a few days for breakfast, exactly a month back!


Mini Blueberry Yogurt Muffin

Ingredients
1. 180g Plain flour
2. 1tsp Baking powder
3. Pinch of salt
4. 125g Unsalted butter, soften
5. 100g sugar
6. 1 tsp lemon zest
7. 2 egg
8. 90g yogurt
9. 150g blueberries

Precedure
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Conbine flour, baking powder & salt in a bowl, put aside.
3. Mix butter and sugar till pale & creamy on med-high setting.
4. Mix in the eggs, one at a time till just combined.
5. Mix in the dry ingredient on slow setting.
6. Add in the blueberries by hand.
7. Transfer to miffin pan line with linear, fille ach muffin holes to 3/4 full.
8. Bake for 20-25min, til golden brown and cooked through.

Chocolate Chips Cookie

Its been exactly 2 months since my last post.
Alot of happen & taken place during these 2 months.
I went on a mind-changing or better said, self-engaging trip to the far far North.

Trying hard to get back on track to my baking routine.
Life resume after all the hu ha of holidays & CNY doesnt it??
This is the 1st yr since my poly days that i have not baked
pineapple tarts & other goodies for my dear family.
I apologize for failing to keep this up this yr.
This is an exceptionally contridicting year for me.
Had wanted to make almond tuiles when i came back on the 3oJan,
but was seriously jet-lagged and simply not in the correct mind to bake.

These Chocolate Chip Cookies are bake specially for xmas last year.
I try to get back the 'original' taste of these cookies.
These are actually the first few items i bake when i started out baking in my sec sch days.
Bought back the same flour, which i'm not using right now, specially for this batch.
Used back the same brand of butter, the same brand of choco chips.
I gave most of them away, to people whom are special & dear to me.
My mum & james loved the macadamia cookies.
I still have hell lots of mac nuts, have to bake another batch to finish them up soon.

This is a very very simple recipe,
the basic of chocolate chip cookies.
Nothing special or unique used for these cookies.
Its the mind & heart of the baker that makes the real diffference,
not the recipe.
I always enjoy the crunchiness, the aroma, the bite
& probably the memories that these cookies had for me.
I hope everyone could enjoy the simple pleasure & happiness
that this simple recipe brings!


Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients
1. 500g Self-raising Flour
2. 320g Butter
4. 200g Sugar
5. 1/2 tsp Baking soda
6. Pinch of salt
7. 2 eggs

Procedure
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Cream butter & sugar till creamy, add eggs & continue to mixed.
3. Combine with flour, salt & baking soda.
4. Bake the dough for 10mins depending on size.

*add in chocolate chips, nuts, cocao powder as required.