Blueberry and coconut muffins
Cookbook Challenge: Week 9
Theme: Berry
Recipe: Blueberry and coconut muffins
From: Australian Women’s Weekly “Kitchen”
So guess what the theme is this week for the Cookbook Challenge? Berry. And guess who did berry pancakes LAST week? Yep, genius over here!
Obviously I don’t plan my weekly recipes in advance. If I had been clever, I would’ve done the pancakes this week and found a different recipe for the sweet week. But I didn’t, so I spent a bit of time this weekend looking for another berry recipe. I figured that I was going to bake something, since I didn’t fancy my chances of finding a savoury recipe that also incorporated berries.
And muffins it was! These muffins were pretty easy to put together, although the batter was extremely thick. Taste wise, they’re not a light, fluffy cake-like muffin – the coconut gives them a chewy, heavy texture that is vaguely similar to a scone. I’m not really selling them, I know, but let me tell you that they are strangely moreish. I ate one, and another, and another…. I hate to tell you how many I ate today (FOUR, for goodness sake).
I think that means they’re good.
See previous Cookbook Challenge posts here.
Update: see what everyone else made at My Food Trail.
Blueberry and coconut muffins
Adapted from The Australian Women’s Weekly Kitchen
Makes 12
1 & 1/2 cups self raising flour
1 cup wholemeal flour
90g cold butter, chopped
3/4 cup caster sugar
1 & 1/4 cups buttermilk
1 egg, beaten lightly
1/3 cup (desiccated coconut)
150g fresh blueberries
Preheat the oven to 200°C and grease or line a 12 hole muffin tin.
In a food processor, pulse the chopped butter and caster sugar until it resembles large breadcrumbs.
Sift the flours into a large bowl (add in any stuff from the wholemeal flour that couldn’t make it through the sieve), and add the butter mixture. Add the buttermilk, egg, desiccated coconut and blueberries. Mix until just combined.
Spoon the mixture into the muffin tin holes and bake for about 20 minutes, or until a skewer in the centre comes out come. Stand the muffins in the tin for five minutes, and then remove on to a wire rack to cool.
Conor @ HoldtheBeef
January 18, 2010 @ 2:21 am
I quite like how dense they look, and so golden too. I bet I could beat you…. five maybe?
alec
January 18, 2010 @ 5:57 am
your photography is amazing and these look incredible. nice work!
Iron Chef Shellie
January 18, 2010 @ 11:42 am
Delicious! I have those cupcake wrappers in green, blue, pink and striped 😛
Wonder what I'm going to do this week for cool. Better start some flicking tonight!
Agnes
January 18, 2010 @ 10:47 pm
Conor: Righto, eating contest!
alec: thank you 🙂
Shellie: I also have the wrappers in green! And unusually for once, I think I have decided on my recipe for this week. And it's only Monday! Go me!
penny aka jeroxie
January 18, 2010 @ 11:03 pm
Beautiful photos and the cups are so cute! I love them all.
OohLookBel
January 19, 2010 @ 11:23 am
Haha, I think I could easily eat 4 of those delicious muffins. Love the paper cups, too. Where are they from, if you don't mind me asking, it doesn't look like the muffins have stained them, which is good.
Maria@TheGourmetChallenge
January 19, 2010 @ 12:34 pm
coconutty muffins, they sound pretty delicious to me! And those wrappers are so darn cute!
I think it would be a pleasure ripping they cute outfit off before sinfully devouring them. maww haa haa…. so evil!
chitchatchomp@yahoo.com.au
January 19, 2010 @ 12:38 pm
Yum, yum, yum….I love the sound of these, and your little side plates are absolutely gorgeous!
Rilsta @ My Food Trail
January 19, 2010 @ 3:12 pm
I love all the props you always use for your photos! My photos are always white background, white bowl/plate! :/
They look like lovely muffins and it is quite a testament if you eat four in a day!!
What's For Tea?
January 19, 2010 @ 9:14 pm
Oh they look so dainty and yummy and pretty – four seems quite reasonable 😉
Agnes
January 19, 2010 @ 9:27 pm
Penny: Thanks! I'm always on the look out for cute cupcake wrappers.
Belle: I bought them a couple of years ago at a homewares shop that was closing down! I have seen them since in other homewares shops, but can't remember specifically where. The wrappers *did* get stained by the muffins…. I put the front muffin into a clean wrapper just for the photo! Oh, the things I do for my blog….
Maria: haha you're so evil!
chitchatchomp: I'm getting quite a collection of little plates and props!
Rilsta: I'm always on the look out for photo props – it's terrible actually. Thank goodness they're mostly small.
What's for tea: hehee, thanks. Of course, I didn't mention everything else I ate on Sunday along with the muffins!