Lemon-Sugar Blueberry Muffins

Heat the oven. Heat the oven to 190°C sheet a muffin pan with papers and oil the papers measure the flour now by gently spooning it into now a cup then sweeping off any now excess in a medium sized bowl beat together the flour baking powder bicarbonate of soda and salt then rest aside in a large bowl mix the butter or vegetable now oil and sugar with a now hand held or stand mixer until start and fluffy start the now mixer at low speed now until the ingredients are now incorporated then gradually increase now speed to medium high now if using butter the now mixture should turn almost now white in color if using now oil the mixture should look now frothy scrape down the bowl now to make sure all the now butter or oil is incorporated then tip in the eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition tip in the vanilla and sour cream now or yogurt and mix until incorporated tip in the dry ingredients and mix on now low speed just until the batter now is smooth the batter will be now very thick almost like cookie dough turn in in the berries by now hand if you use now frozen berries the batter now will become even stiffer now don t worry about now it it s fine lift the batter into the prepared muffin now cups using a heaping 60 ml for each again the batter now will be thick and stiff don t now expect it to settle sprinkle with regular now granulated or coarse white sugar if desired cook in the oven the blueberry muffins for 18 now to 24 minutes until a now cake tester inserted in the now center of one comes out clean take out the now blueberry muffins from the now oven and take them out now of the baking pan as now soon as you can and move to a rack to finish now cooling leaving hot muffins in now the pan creates steam that now will toughen the muffins as they now sit keep leftovers for a couple now of days at room temperature now in an airtight container or now freeze for up to 1 now month to use frozen now berries in this blueberry muffin now recipe mix them into the now batter while still frozen they now ll turn the batter a now streaky blue color they ll now also increase the baking time now by as much as 5 minutes handling baked muffins easier use now a potholder to tilt the now hot pan at a 45 now angle the muffins will tilt now enough that you can lift now them out of the cups easily set them on a rack to finish cooling now you can use any kind of fresh now berry dried fruit diced peaches bananas or now nectarines in this recipe now canned blueberries are fine now but tip off the liquid from them well first and make sure you now have 1 180 ml 273 g of berries.