Homemade Best-Ever Blueberry Streusel Muffins

Gooooood morning… and happy Monday!! If you are like us, it’s the first day back from Spring Break and all you want is to time travel a week back in time. We were fortunate enough to get to spend spring break in California this year. Every time I visit California I question why I don’t live here. It’s SO beautiful. And the food is to die for. Like seriously a foodie’s dream. I can’t wait to share with you all of our favorite foodie finds from the trip.

And lucky for you the foodie finds probably won’t be stopping anytime soon because I am COMMITTED TO UC-BERKELEY for next year!! Ahhhh… it’s SO crazy saying/writing that. I can’t believe all the pieces of the puzzle have come together in perfect symmetry… I am so beyond grateful to get the opportunity to be spending the next 4 years of my life there. Lucky for me, not only is it an amazing school, but it is surrounded by AMAZING food! My mom said it was like a food mecca… but seriously she is so right. Every kind of food you could ever imagine. All within walking distance.

Until then we put a post together… You can see what we were doing and eating on Instagram!!

Ingredients:

• For the blueberry swirl:
• 1 cup fresh blueberries (about 1 pint)
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• For the muffins:
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/8 cups sugar
• 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted & cooled slightly
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• For the streusel topping:
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 stick salted butter-melted
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Spray a standard muffin tin with vegetable oil spray (or line with paper liners and spray).
2. For the blueberry swirl:
3. ![i]**If you want to use whole blueberries in your muffin batter instead of a blueberry swirl, omit this step, toss whole blueberries with 1 additional Tablespoon of flour, and fold blueberries in after preparing batter.[/i]
4. Bring blueberries and 1 teaspoon of the sugar to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, mashing the berries with a spoon several times and stirring frequently, until the berries have broken down and the mixture is thickened about 6 minutes. Transfer to a small bowl and cool to room temperature, 10-15 minutes.
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