Blueberry
Lemon & Blueberry Scone Slices
Ingredients:
330g self raising flour
75g butter, cold diced
40g caster sugar
Zest of 1 lemon
120g blueberries, frozen
180ml milk
Juice of 1 lemon
2 heaped tablespoons of icing sugar
Makes: 6 large scone slices
The blueberries in this recipe are best frozen, which stops them completely disintegrating and bleeding too much on baking, buy them fresh and then simply pop them in the freezer before you get going, you don’t need to buy them ready frozen.
Blueberry & Vanilla Battenberg
A Battenberg with a subtle nod to the Jubilee – Battenberg goes red, white and blue!
Ingredients:
200g butter, softened
200g caster sugar
4 eggs
200g self-raising flour
90g blueberries
1 tsp vanilla bean paste or the seeds scraped from one vanilla bean pod.
Blueberry Crumble Muffins
This time of year blueberries are sweeeeeeet and juicy, if you can resist eating them straight from the punnet these muffins will go down a treat
Ingredients:
180g self raising flour
55g soft light brown sugar
150ml milk
1 egg, large
25g melted butter
100g blueberries
Crumble Topping
2 tbsps flour (self raising is fine and you’ve already got it out of the cupboard)
10g butter, softened
2 tbsps oats
1 tbsp soft light brown sugar
1 tbsp chopped mixed nuts
If you don’t like nuts or oats just leave these out.
Blueberry and Hazelnut Chocolate Florentines
Florentines are notoriously tricky blighters, seemingly simple but accurate measurements are needed (Ruth are you paying attention, no really paying attention? Okay out come the digital scales).
Florentines also need to go on the tray well spaced apart, another instruction in recipes I fail to ‘get’ and frequently end up chiselling a sheet of florentines from a baking tray, add to that the messy affair of coating the monkeys in chocolate and we’re talking baking disaster tantrums.
