My Favorite Muffin – Dragonfly Inn Double Berry Muffins

This Double Berry Muffin recipe is perhaps my most frequently used recipe.  It’s easy, versatile, and provided you don’t forget anything (it can happen to the best of us) they’ll be picture perfect every time.

In this recipe we use blueberries and cranberries but you can substitute any fruit you wish.  The addition of the yogurt makes it moist and lends a slightly sharper flavor with a generous dusting of sugar and nutmeg it is – simply – my favorite muffin.

There are few ‘original’ muffin recipes.  Each one is a shade of another and as a baked item they’re far from complicated.

There are rules however…

1. Mix muffins in a metal bowl.  It helps the leavening agent to activate.
2. Mix dry indigents (flour, baking powder, sugar, salt) first, then add your wet ingredients (butter, milk, eggs).  This will ensure all the ingredients mix well with little effort.
3. Mix less.  Muffins are not bread, there’s no need to knead, beat or whip them.  They prefer a lighter touch.  Mix until just moist.  It’s not necessary to bash every last lump out of the batter.  In fact, you want the batter lumpy.

The best baking tip I’ve ever received “a lumpy batter makes a smooth cake”.   Muffins are essentially small cakes.

A tender hand makes a tender muffin.  Gosh, that sounds so Zen.

Dragonfly Inn Double Berry Muffins

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

20 mins

Total time

30 mins

 

A staple form my days at the Dragonfly Inn on Nova Scotia's shores. This recipe became my go-to standard muffin recipe packed with berries and finished with sugar and spice.

Author: Corinna Horton

Recipe type: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Serves: 1 dozen

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• ¼ cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup milk
• ½ cup plain yogurt
• 2 eggs
• ¼ cup butter, melted
• ⅓ cup blueberries
• ⅓ cup cranberries
• to finish - coarse sugar & nutmeg

Method

1. Preheat oven to 400° F (205°C). Prep 12- cup muffin tin, greased or lined with paper muffin cups.
2. In a large bowl add dry ingredients and whisk to combine, add milk, eggs and butter. Mix lightly (fold 3 or 4 times), with batter still slightly dry, then add fruit and fold lightly. DO NOT OVER MIX (this makes for tough muffins).
3. Fill muffin tins/cups three quarters full. Finish with a sprinkling of coarse sugar & nutmeg for a crisp, sweet muffin top.
4. Place rack in one notch higher than center in oven. Bake in a preheated 400°F (205°C) oven for up to 20 minutes.

Notes

Modifications: skip the cranberries and double the blueberries and, voila, wicked Blueberry Muffins!

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