Blueberry Muffins

How to make delicious blueberry muffins by hand, easy step by step instructions from start to finish.

Ingredients

Start by preheating your oven to 180°C / 355°F / Gas mark 4
Prepare an ordinary size 12 cup muffin tin, and line the cups with 12 standard muffin paper cases.
To a large mixing bowl, add the flour, the baking powder, and salt, next add the cubed butter, and rub these ingredients together with your fingers, until your mix resembles coarse bread crumbs.
Add the castor sugar, and rub that in too.

Time to add the wet ingredients, pour in the milk, eggs, and vanilla extract, using a spatula, blend all the ingredients together, until you have a smooth fairly smooth batter.
Do not add the blueberries to the mixture at this point, they would only break up, and turn your batter blue, they need to be added individually, to the batter in the paper cases.
Using a teaspoon, add a little of the mixture to the bottom of each muffin case, and place 2 or 3 blueberries on top of the mixture, add another full teaspoon of the mixture, on top of the blueberries, repeat this procedure, until the muffin cases are filled to the top.
Once all of your muffins have been built up, get the muffin tray into the preheated oven, and set your timer for 25 minutes.
When the time is up, place the muffin tray on a wire rack for 5 minutes, allowing the muffins to settle a while.
After the five minutes, take the out of the muffin tray and place the cases onto the wire rack, and allow them to completely cool before having them, with a nice cup of coffee of tea.
Enjoy