36. Summer Berry Muffins
Summer is well and truly on its way. Its been warm and sunny basically all week with blue skies most days. It has been absolutely gorgeous. Just a shame we’ve been stuck at work! Hopefully these muffins will help you bring a little bit of summer inside even if you, like me, end up stuck inside unable to enjoy the weather. Thanks to Susie for the inspiration, she made some summer berry muffins last week and they just looked so good I couldn’t resist having a go.
These are a ridiculously easy make. No fancy techniques involved, nothing complicated here. Just some good tasty muffins to enjoy the British summer time with. Summer berries are great aren’t they? For this recipe you can either select your own mix of your favourite berries, or cheat like I did and go to the frozen aisle and get a bag of mixed summer berries and just defrost the amount I need. There’s still half a bag left if I want to make these again or just have them with some yoghurt or something. Tasty.
These are so easy you basically have no excuse not to give them a go this weekend. Let me know how you get on and I hope you enjoy!
Makes 12 muffins
Ingredients
120g butter, melted
150g golden caster sugar
240g self raising flour
2 eggs
140ml buttermilk (or 140ml milk and a tbsp of lemon juice mixed and left to stand for 15 minutes)
160g mixed summer berries
100g white chocolate chips/chopped white chocolate
2-3 tbsp lemon juice
70g icing sugar
Method
Preheat the oven to 190C. Line or grease a muffin tray.
In a bowl mix together the buttermilk and eggs. Add in the melted butter (cooled, don’t scramble your eggs with really hot butter!)
Sift the flour and fold it into your wet ingredients. Fold in the sugar too.
Gently fold in your berries and white chocolate chips.
Fill your muffin tray evenly with your mixture and sprinkle a little extra sugar on the top of each.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden brown.
Allow to cool.
Mix together the icing sugar and just enough lemon juice that it becomes drizzlable (is that a word?), but still a bit thick.
Drizzle your icing over your cooled muffins and allow to set before you pick one up and get immensely sticky fingers!
Enjoy!
