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The easiest blueberry muffins recipe ever – and no butter used!

Last Friday I bought four punnets of blueberries because I have blueberry monsters at home. Although I knew they would have no problems at all finishing them, I googled for a blueberry muffins recipe because I’d always wanted to make blueberry muffins and since we didn’t buy any breakfast for Saturday morning, it was the perfect time to bake some.

And so Saturday morning, I got up early and made the blueberry muffins. I followed the recipe I found largely and got really quite worried about my batter which didn’t seem to be thick as what others have said in the comments but well, I had to just go ahead with whatever I already made.

Boy was I glad the blueberry muffins turned out awesome! It was so moist and fluffy, not overly sweet and we just loved how the whole blueberries burst in our mouths and the look of the purplish-blue streaks on the muffins!

So here’s the recipe I used which produced the moist, fluffy blueberry muffins! We love this a lot better than the Banana chocolate chip muffins I made earlier. This wasn’t as strong in taste and we could eat MANY at one go. Needless to say, the blueberry monsters at home are big fans of this muffin recipe 🙂

Original recipe from Inspired Taste

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The easiest blueberry muffins ever - and no butter used!

Author: Simply Mommie

Recipe type: Breakfast

Cuisine: Western

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 25 mins

Total time: 35 mins

Serves: 12-14

The easiest and moistest blueberry muffins ever, made without butter!

Ingredients

190g self-raising flour
150g sugar (for the batter)
½-1 teaspoons baking soda
1-2 tablespoons sugar (for muffin tops)
¼ teaspoon salt
80ml oil (I used olive oil)
1 egg
⅓-1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
170g fresh blueberries

Instructions

Combine flour, sugar, baking soda and the salt in a large bowl with a whisk.
Measure the amount of oil in a measuring cup that holds at least 250ml. Add the egg then fill the jug to the 250ml mark with milk (this should be ⅓ to a ½ cup of milk). Add vanilla extract and whisk until combined.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and combine with a spatula. Do not over mix or your muffins will be heavy and flat.
Lastly, fold in the blueberries into the muffin batter.
Using an ice-cream scoop, or any scoop you prefer, fill each muffin cup about ⅔-3/4 full.
Preheat the oven to 200C.
Meanwhile, sprinkle sugar on the muffin tops.
Bake the muffins for 25minutes.

Here’s how the batter looks like:

And the batter in souffle cups as I don’t have a muffin pan:

The freshly baked muffins!:

Have fun baking!

Have a go at these recipes!:

Quick & easy brownie

Banana chocolate chip muffin

Lemon Poppy Seed cupcakes (with Christmas decorations)

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Sea/Ocean themed crafts – Contact paper Jellyfish craft

Still on our Ocean theme, we made this contact paper jellyfish craft which even tots can make.

Contact paper is such a hit with children and it is suitable even for little ones. Art and craft need not always have a beautiful outcome – it’s the process that matters and that’s what we did for our contact paper process art last year, back when my boy was 13 months old.

For this jellyfish craft, here’s what I prepared:

coloured tissue paper cut into small squares, contact paper, glitter, a cut-out of a ‘D’ to outline the jellyfish shape using an old painting, gold metallic paper fine cut shreds recycled from one of the parcels

To start, tear off the plasticky part of the contact paper and stick on the ‘D’ shape paper cut-out (to make things easier for this stage, trace the shape of the jellyfish on an old painting then work to cut out a ‘D’ shape from the painting so that the paper will fit nicely on the contact paper):