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Blueberry & Apple Muffin Recipe

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Thought it might be nice to try some apple and blueberry muffins. As the weather changes, it feels like cake times are coming. Or already here…

110g butter

250g caster sugar

250g plain flour

2 eggs

150ml milk

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

120g blueberries

80g grated apple

Some cinnamon

Cream the butter and sugar together, add eggs and mix until smooth. Sieve in the flour, baking powder and salt. Add cinnamon. Beat together, adding the milk until smooth. Hand mix through the apple and lightly crushed blueberries.

Fill muffin cases – this made 12, but I filled the cases quite high to get the towering muffin look.

180 degrees for around 25 minutes. (170 for fan assisted oven).

(c) K Wicks

Apple and Blackberry Cake

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After foraging some blackberries, I decided to give apple and blackberry cake a go.

186g blackberries

2 x small gala apples

2 eggs beaten

1/2 tps cinnamon

4 oz butter

6 oz demerera sugar

8 oz self raising flour

orange zest

1tps baking powder

Oven at 160°c (fan assisted or 180 if not), line loaf tin with baking paper, or butter so the cake doesn’t stick.

Beat the eggs and greate the two apples including the skin down to the core into the egg, put in cinnamon and orange zest.

Cream together the butter and sugar.

Add the two together until you have a big bowl of runny, lumpy goo. Now add the flour and baking powder until you have a decent cake batter, then stir through most of the blackberries, careful not to break them up too much. Save a few for putting on top before it goes in the oven, and I sprinkled a small bit of demerera over the top as well.

Bake for around 50 mins to over an hour. I had to check a few times because it browned well early on. The knife test did it though, and it was perfect at about 1 hour and 5 minutes I think.

It was rather nice.

(c) K Wicks

Little apple pies

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I like a bit of a bake now and again. Always a good choice when some apples have gone past their crunchy prime or just because you fancy them. Little apple pies.

I don’t have a formal recipe – you’ll notice my scrap of paper for the pastry measure. I don’t retain recipe info naturally so have notes, receipt book for random things and a folder of printed recipes when I’m organised.

Its basic, only requiring butter, flour, water and apples. I added cinnamon to the apples and a bit in the pastry, and a spoon of demerara sugar to the apples. But its not essential really. Just for a bit more sweetness and flavour. Obviously you can add what you like, and sweeten as needed. The smaller quantity of ingredients makes around 9 pies, using 4 apples.

The recipe doesn’t require egg, but I do a milk or egg wash before they go in the oven so you get a nice sheen on them.

Then put on a cooling rack to give them a rest, before tucking in 😋

(c) K Wicks