Blueberry and orange muffins

Muffins are terrific lunch box snacks - and happily, they are about as easy as baking ever gets. Your kids will love these muffins with familiar flavours that never get old.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups self raising flour

    or gluten-free flour

  • ½ cup almond meal

  • ½ cup caster sugar

  • ⅓ cup oil

    80mL

  • 1 cup milk

  • 2 eggs

  • 1 Zest of orange

    finely chopped

  • 1 cup blueberries

Allergy Advice

Contains Dairy

Contains Eggs

Contains Gluten

Contains Nuts

Equipment

  • 1 muffin tray
  • 1 paper cases
  • 1 large mixing bowl
  • 1 glass jug
  • 1 whisk
  • 1 skewer

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and place paper cases in muffin tray. Sift flour into large mixing bowl, add caster sugar.
  2. In a glass jug, measure out oil (to 1/3 cup), add milk (to 1 1/3 cup) and eggs, and whisk to combine.
  3. Pour liquid into dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Stir in orange zest and blueberries.
  4. Spoon mixture into paper cases. Bake for 20-25 minutes until a skewer inserted into the muffin comes out clean.

Notes

Tip
If you have extra mixture, make mini muffins (avoiding the blueberries for the fussy children).
Variation
If you don’t have almond meal, or don’t want to use it, just use more flour.
Variation
Make these muffins gluten free using gluten free plain flour and 3 teaspoons gluten-free baking powder.

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