Mandarin-Blueberry Muffins
- For the muffins
- 2 cups all purpose white flour
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup walnut oil, almond oil or your choice
- Zest from 3 Mandarin oranges
- 1/2 cup fresh Mandarin orange juice (about 3 oranges)
- 1 1/4 teaspoons orange extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- For the streusel
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon mandarin orange zest
- Heat oven to 400*F and line a regular size muffin tin with paper liners.
- Combine flour, 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl and blend well.
- In a separate bowl add, oil, orange juice, eggs, 1 T zest and orange extract and blend.
- Blend this egg mixture into the flour mixture, blend well and add the blueberries.
- Spoon this mixture into the muffin tin liners.
- Mix all Streusel ingredients together and sprinkle on top of the uncooked muffins.
- Bake 15 to 20 minutes until done by the straw test. Then eat one!
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Taken from food52.com/recipes/25445-mandarin-blueberry-muffins (may not work)