Best Blueberry Muffin

Total Time: 28 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 18 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups blueberries, divided
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon zest
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/8 cups sugar
• 4 tablespoons butter, melted
• 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup buttermilk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• 2 make jam: place 1 cup berries and 1 teaspoons sugar in a small saucepan, cook until reduced breaking up some of the berries, about 6 minutes. set aside and cool, should yield about 1/4 cup.
• 3 mix 1/3 celsius sugar with lemon zest, set aside.
• 4 mix flour with baking powder and salt, whisk together in a large bowl.
• 5 in a medium bowl whisk eggs with 1 1/8 celsius sugar til blended and light yellow.
• 6 add butter, oil, vanilla and buttermilk and mix well.
• 7 fold wet mixture and remaining berries to flour mixture until moistened, batter should still be very lumpy.
• 8 place in greased muffin tin (i use a quick release ice cream scoop to get uniform sized muffins) and put a tsp sized dollop of jam into each muffin. swirl with a chopstick or knife.
• 9 top with sugar/lemon mixture.
• 10 bake in upper middle rack at 425 til tops are set and slightly spring back, about 18 minutes, rotating half-way through cooking time.
• 11 cool 5 minutes before removing from pan. enjoy!