Blueberry Orange Muffins

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These blueberry orange muffins are fresh and light with a hint of orange flavor and packed with delicious blueberries. Eat them as a tea time snack, or use them as the perfect breakfast muffin to start your day with. The muffins are great warm or at room temperature and they are particularly great split, toasted and spread with butter or jam. 

Blueberry orange muffins


Edited August, 2020 to add:

I love this recipe and realized I had not updated the pictures on the blog post that originally went live in August of 2010. I have made this recipe plenty of times, and also in a cake form too. Fresh blueberries are now easier to source in India and I realized it was time this post got a face lift. The original post photo, along with the step by step remains for these blueberry orange muffins, along with the new ones. I am sure you can make out which ones are the updated pics 😉

Original Post published in August, 2010:

For days there were these orange colored things that were lying in my fruit basket– getting more and more ripe as the days passed by. DH isn’t a fan of oranges, so I had to come up with some innovative way to get it in his stomach (I know, I know…they are like kids!). He is a Taurean, and very rigid about things he wants to do and things he doesn’t. So no matter how many times I told him please eat an orange, his hand would always reach out for the banana lying on the side.

blueberry orange muffins

 

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BRrrrrrOWNIES!

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Brownies and chocolate chip cookies- they say- are America’s contribution to the dessert world- and boy! what a contribution! I was reading about brownies the other day (like I mentioned before–I’m a baking nerd) and was surprised to find out that traditionally brownies had no cocoa in them. In fact, the “brown” in the brownies was from the molasses that bakers added to the batter. I thank the lord for the person who decided to try making them with chocolate- he/she must have definitely gone to heaven for giving so much happiness to the world! 🙂 🙂

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PAINTED BREAD

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Whenever DH and I go for grocery shopping, one thing that is usually not on our list is bread. I love making bread at home–the smell of the yeast fermenting and the bread baking in the oven– gives me a high like no other!

For a while now, I had been ogling at Chef Tess’s site http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/ and how she creatively uses bread dough to produce masterpieces (well I think they are!). The pleasure of making your own bread at home is an exhilarating experience, but to paint on it and make it even more beautiful is just something that words will never be able to justify. So, today I decided I would take a shot at this too. I did not have any food color in my pantry so decided to use a mixture of coffee and egg yolk that I read gives a natural edible brown color. I was scared though, that the coffee taste might overpower the taste of the bread, but thankfully it did not. I used my recipe for light wheat bread – that uses both bread flour and whole wheat flour – as the canvas. Well the results weren’t as good as Tess’ but then again this was my first try! (The original recipe makes 3 loaves so I had to scale it down for one loaf- hence the fractioned ingredients!)

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