Blueberry Bisquits

My dad loves Scones and Blueberries :) I get a bit tired of making Scones all the time but wanted to make something for my dad for the weekend. I was searching the Internet when I found some very tasty looking biscuits at  http://www.kenkatschke.com/post/22322527599/bo-berry-biscuits. They did not disappoint at all. They make 6 large biscuits and my dad ate 3 at one sitting :) He loved them.

Ingredients:

2 cups of Flour

1 cup of Milk(cold)

1/3 cup of Sugar

5 Tbsp Butter (Cold or Frozen)

4 Tsp Baking Powder

3 oz Blueberries (Fresh or Frozen) I used Fresh

They were soooooo good on their own I did not make a Glaze but for those wanting to put Glaze here are the ingredients you need :)

1 cup of Powdered Sugar

1/8 Cup of water

1 Tsp Vanilla

1/2 Tsp of Lemon Juice

Directions:

Preheat Oven to 450 F. Mix Sugar,Flour,and baking powder in a bowl. Add the Super cold milk in the dry ingredients and mix. As the dough begins to form take each Tablespoon of hardened butter and break chunks off and spread evenly over dough. Fold dough, and knead and keep repeating until all the butter is spread in chunks evenly throughout the dough. Move dough to floured cutting board and roll flat to about 1/4-1/2 thick and cut approximately 6 Biscuits with a biscuit or cookie cutter. ( I just used a round cup) If you notice the butter start to melt during this process you may need to return the dough to the freezer for 10-15 minutes. Do not let it sit in the freezer for more than 20 mins. ( I am in Texas in the middle of summer I did have the AC on but it was still very hot in my kitchen and I did not need to put in the freezer) Place in oven for about 7-12 minutes. Melt 1 Tbsp of butter in the microwave, and brush on the finished biscuits with a pastry brush.  Mix the glaze ingredients in a bowl, and drizzle over the Biscuits with a fork. 

Enjoy!

Blueberry Muffins

I was a little bit on the bored side today...so what other thing would I think to do than cook :) I have been thinking of some bannanna cupcakes we will get to those in the next post....but I couldnt just make a sweet since it was like a no reason kind of sweet since it is lent and my dad has given up sweets so I made him Blueberry Muffins which he will eat :) Sweet daughter you say?!?!?! I know I know Thank you :) I got the recipie from a new blog I just discovered today and let me tell you I'm soo glad I did!! Eat Cake For Dinner is the name of the blog and heres the link to the recipie!! Hope you enjoy.

http://eatcakefordinner.blogspot.com/2012/02/old-fashioned-blueberry-muffins.html



You will need:

2 cups all purpose Flour

1 Tbsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 large egg (not pictured) oops

1 cup Sugar

4 Tbsp unsalted butter,melted and cooled

1 1/4 cup sour cream

6 oz. frozen blueberries, preferably wild

Topping:(optional)

1/4 cup Sugar'

1 Tsp. Cinnamon

First you want to preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray or line 12 cupcake/muffin tins.

Whisk Flour,baking powder and salt in medium bowl until combined.

Whisk the egg in another medium bowl until well-combined and light colored about 20 seconds. Add sugar and whisk vigorously until thick and homgeneneous, about 30 seconds. Add melted butter in 2-3 steps, whisking to combine after each addition. (yep I noticed now I forgot to take a few pics its ok Im new to this...than again give me a few 100 more posts and I will still forget hehe)

Add sour cream in 2 steps, whisking until just combined.

Ok so it saids now to add blueberries to dry ingredients and gently toss to combine I skipped this step by accident ;) and just threw the dry ingredients on top of the wet ones and the blueberries on top of the dry ingredients. It saids after you mix the blueberries with the dry then add that to the sour cream mixture and carefully fold with a rubber spatula until batter comes together and berries are evenly distributed. I did that :) Do not overmix!!!

Divide the batter evenly between 12 cupcake/muffin cups.

Mix your cinnamon and sugar together and sprinkle mixture over the top of each muffin. I did this and Im glad I did but I didnt even use half of it!!

Bake until muffins are golden brown and toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out with a few crumbs attached, 25-30 minutes, rotating tin halfway through baking. Invert Muffins onto wire rack, stand muffins upright and let cool for 5 minutes.

These are a very good muffin!! Im glad I made these on my afternoon/night when I was a little bored...Im no longer bored but tired and am going to go lay down :)