{"id":32003,"date":"2023-08-15T18:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/15\/the-secret-ingredient-behind-our-favorite-blueberry-muffins\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:28:12","slug":"the-secret-ingredient-behind-our-favorite-blueberry-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/15\/the-secret-ingredient-behind-our-favorite-blueberry-muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Ingredient Behind Our Favorite Blueberry Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Your standard blueberry muffin\u2014the plastic-wrapped, purple-spotted, palm-sized treat that loiters in grocery aisles, coffee shops, and beside the register at your office cafeteria\u2014usually maintains a straightforward ingredient list. Typically some combination of flour, eggs, sugar, salt, milk, and (of course) blueberries, these staples create a muffin that\u2019s delicious, but often overly sweet.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s another ingredient most of us never consider adding to the mix, introduced to Food52 in 2009, when Amanda Hesser\u2019s sister Rhonda added their family blueberry muffin recipe to the site. It wowed readers at the time and over the years, for its unusual addition of\u2026toasted coconut?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey turned out light and fluffy, and the toasted coconut adds a surprising and delicious touch!\u201d Lisa F<\/a>. wrote after trying \u201cMom\u2019s Blueberry-Coconut Muffins<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

To understand the muffin\u2019s magic formula and culinary success (it won our muffin recipe contest in 2010<\/a> and has maintained a 4-star rating for over a decade), we teamed up with Amanda\u2014one of the muffin\u2019s original tasters\u2014to highlight the recipe\u2019s greatest strengths.<\/p>\n

Choosing the Right Kind of Coconut<\/h2>\n

For Amanda (and many of the 90+ community members who\u2019ve commented on the recipe), coconut makes the muffins more appealing. \u201cHonestly, I’m not a big fruit muffin person,\u201d she shared, \u201cbut I always liked these because the coconut added a deeper flavor and more interesting texture.\u201d The coconut takes the uniform, cake-like crumb of a typical blueberry muffin and makes it chewier and lighter.<\/p>\n

This textural transformation will happen regardless of if you use sweetened or unsweetened coconut. Although the recipe doesn\u2019t specify a preferred option, Amanda knows which type of coconut her mother would\u2019ve reached for. \u201cI’m certain [my mother] used sweetened coconut when I was growing up because that was all that was available in our local grocery store,\u201d Amanda said. \u201cIf I made them today, I’d use unsweetened coconut and lightly toast it before baking; and I might sprinkle some raw sugar on top before baking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nJust<\/em> Sweet Enough<\/h2>\n

If you like a muffin that tastes more like breakfast than dessert, these not-too-sweet muffins are made for your palate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI prefer less-sweet baked treats so that was just right for me!\u201d Loretta B. wrote in 2019. \u201cThe texture was perfect, and the berries didn’t sink.”<\/p>\n

The tartness of the blueberries shine through, but they\u2019re also incredibly adaptable, if you want to increase the sugar or add a streusel topping.<\/p>\n

Fresh or Frozen Blueberries? You Decide<\/h2>\n

You can make these muffins with either fresh or frozen blueberries and still remain true to the recipe\u2019s roots. \u201c[My mother] would make them in the summer after we went blueberry picking, but she’d also freeze bags of blueberries so that she could make them in the dead of winter, which was always a nice surprise,\u201d shared Amanda.<\/p>\n

However, there is one non-negotiable blueberry requirement. Before folding your blueberries into the batter, you\u2019ll toss the fruit in one tablespoon of flour. Although straightforward, this simple technique will ensure the blueberries won\u2019t sink to the bottom of the muffins, thus avoiding the dreaded fruitless muffin top.<\/p>\n

They Come Together in 30 Minutes (Yes, Really)<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019ve got the ingredients (which you likely do), these coconut muffins need just 10 minutes of prep and 20 minutes of baking before they\u2019re resting on your kitchen counter. The perfect way to start any Saturday, we suggest you serve them like you should any great muffin: split in half, and broiled or toasted with a pat of butter.<\/p>\n

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Your standard blueberry muffin\u2014the plastic-wrapped, purple-spotted, palm-sized treat that loiters in grocery aisles, coffee shops, and beside the register at your office cafeteria\u2014usually maintains a straightforward ingredient list. Typically some combination of flour, eggs, sugar, salt, milk, and (of course) blueberries, these staples create a muffin that\u2019s delicious, but often overly sweet. But there\u2019s another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}