Quick and Easy Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffins

My son loves blueberry muffins. Sadly I usually use a box mix which has a lot of preservatives.  One thing that is lacking in America is cooking and baking from scratch. Cooking used to be something that you learned growing up, now with so many good restaurants, fast foods places, and over packed schedules, busy parents are not taking the time to teach their children how to cook. I learned some baking from my grandmother but it was mainly special treats such as cookies, fudge, pies, and cakes.  As I'm learning to bake and cook more nutritious foods, I am constantly searching for recipes that don't take much more time than opening a box and added a few things.  

I got the base of this recipe from cooks.com, which I posted at the bottom. Overall the original recipe was good but my son didn't care for it.  So I made a few modifications and the recipe below turned out great.  It takes me 5-10 minutes to mix and put in the muffin pan.  And that time included searching for things like my baking powder.  I use frozen organic blueberries that I let thaw while I mixed the batter.  I estimated the honey because honey is so sticky and I like to minimize my mess.  If you're looking for a healthy blueberry muffin recipe, give this one a try!  

Prep Time: about 10 minutes
Cook Time: about 15-20 minutes

Total Time: About 25-30 minutes.

Servings: 17 muffins

Ingredients:

1 egg
1/2 c. milk
1/4 c. vegetable oil
1 1/4 c. whole wheat flour
1/4 c. all purpose flour
1/2 c. honey
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. blueberries

1/4 c. wheat germ (optional)

2 tbs. flax seed (optional)
1/4 c. sugar (optional)

Directions:

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Spray pan or line muffin pan with muffin cups. Beat egg; stir in milk and oil. Mix in remaining ingredients except blueberries just until flour is moistened.  Then add blueberries, batter should be lumpy. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full and bake 15-20 minutes or until golden brown (mine were done in about 17 minutes). Makes about 17 muffins.

Original Recipe from cooks.com

1 egg
1/2 c. milk
1/4 c. vegetable oil
1 1/2 c. whole wheat flour
1/2 c. honey
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. blueberries

Follow the directions above.  Makes 12 muffins.