Recipes

Perfect blueberry muffins

The last recipe you’ll ever need for this teatime treat – and the BEST use of leftovers

January 4, 2025 17:00
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Photo: Deb Perelman
1 min read

Serves: 9

I want these to be the last blueberry muffins you ever make because I culled everything I had ever eaten, read, or loved about muffins and squashed them into 9 overfilled cups. These, like most muffins, are best on the first day.

But we’ve found—through extensive “research”—that if you heat them split open under a grill on day two with a pat of salted butter, they are so good that you’re going to forever hope for more blueberry-muffin leftovers.

Notes: The smaller amount (215g) of blueberries listed in the ingredients will make a well-berried muffin. The larger  amount (255g) is for people —me! — who like just a little bit of muffin with their blueberries.

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Ingredients

70g unsalted butter (cold is fine)

100g granulated sugar

Finely grated zest from ½ lemon

175g plain unsweetened yogurt or sour cream

1 large egg

1 ½ tsp baking powder 

¼ tsp baking soda 

¼ tsp fine sea or table salt

195g plain flour 

215 - 255 g blueberries, fresh or frozen (do not defrost)

3 tbsp raw (turbinado) or Demerara sugar