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These Bakery Style Blueberry Muffins with Streusel are extra moist and loaded with blueberries, reminiscent of the beautiful muffins you’d find at your favorite bakery. Bakery Style Blueberry Muffins with a buttery, crispy streusel topping to take them to the next level! In This Article 1-Minute Video: Blueberry Muffins RecipeWhy This Recipe Stands OutKey Recipe IngredientsSubstitutions and VariationsStep-By-Step Recipe InstructionsHow To Prep AheadWhat to Serve with Blueberry MuffinsCommonly Asked QuestionsBakery Style Blueberry Muffins with Streusel RecipeMore to Bake and eat View more 1-Minute Video: Blueberry Muffins Recipe Why This Recipe Stands Out We have tried a fair share of blueberry muffins, and we can confidently say that this is one of the best blueberry recipes ever. Here’s why: Big, Bakery-Style Muffins: These muffins are just like the ones you’d get at your favorite bakery. We use a similar topping in our Streusel Pumpkin Pie. Packed with Blueberries: These are bursting with fresh, juicy berries, like our Lemon Blueberry Bread. Perfectly Moist: This bakery style blueberry muffin recipe has the most tender and moist crumb! Make-Ahead: These muffins are even better the next day, perfect for making in advance. Key Recipe Ingredients Fresh Blueberries – Buy fresh, juicy blueberries that are semi-firm. Brown Sugar – We use brown sugar in our streusel topping for its warm, molasses-like flavor. Lemon Juice – A touch of lemon juice provides a bit of acidity and rise. Whole Milk – We recommend using whole milk for a rich, tender texture. Olive or Canola Oil – Either of these choices is great for keeping muffins moist. Substitutions and Variations Check out these simple recipe variations for blueberry muffins: Banana: If you’re in the mood for a twist, feel free to add a very ripe mashed banana to the batter. Vary the Berries: Try mixing in some raspberries or chopped strawberries for an amazing flavor combination. Nuts and Seeds: For a healthy boost, toss in some finely chopped roasted nuts or seeds. Frosting: In lieu of streusel, try this easy Cream Cheese Frosting that we use on our cakes. Step-By-Step Recipe Instructions Mix all streusel ingredients in a bowl until mixture resembles coarse, lumpy sand. Cover and chill until ready to use. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.  Combine oil, egg, vanilla extract, lemon juice, and enough milk to reach 1 cup. Combine the oil mixture with the flour mixture. Fold batter just until the dry ingredients are moistened. Gently fold in the blueberries. Fill lined muffin cups to the top. Sprinkle with the prepared streusel topping. Bake at 400F for 20-25 minutes. Let the muffins cool completely in the pan before serving. For full list of ingredients and instructions, see recipe card below. How To Prep Ahead Blueberry muffins are perfect to prep ahead: Prep Streusel: You can make the streusel topping for these muffins a day or two in advance. Simply combine all the streusel ingredients and mix with a fork until it resembles coarse, lumpy sand. Then, keep it chilled until you’re ready to use it. Entirely Make Ahead: These blueberry muffins freeze well, so you can make a batch (or two) in advance and have them on hand for a quick breakfast or snack. Just be sure to let them cool completely before storing them in an airtight container for up to 3 months. Bakery style blueberry muffins are delicious with coffee, tea, or milk. What to Serve with Blueberry Muffins Savory Options Balance out the sweetness in blueberry muffins with scrambled eggs, bacon, or sausage links. Breakfast casseroles such as English Muffin Breakfast Casserole and Easy Breakfast Quiche are perfect with muffins. Sweet Options Serve muffins alongside yogurt, granola, and extra fruits. Spreads like jam, nut butters, or blueberry cream cheese are great options. Beverages Coffee, tea, or your milk of choice are fantastic with blueberry muffins. Commonly Asked Questions What type of blueberries should I use? We recommend using fresh blueberries for best results. Wild Maine blueberries are my favorite, if you can find them! But any semi-firm, sweet blueberries will work great. Can I use frozen blueberries? If you want to use frozen ones instead, use them frozen; do not thaw them before adding them to the batter. Coat them in a light dust of flour to prevent them from sinking to the bottom of the muffins. Why do I need to keep the streusel chilled? Keeping the streusel chilled before baking helps it maintain its crumbly texture. If the butter in the streusel melts before it goes into the oven, it will spread out and become more like a topping than a crumbly streusel. How long do the muffins stay fresh? These bakery-style blueberry muffins can be kept at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days. Can I freeze blueberry muffins? If you want to keep muffins for longer, you can store them in the freezer for up to 3 months. Print Bakery Style Blueberry Muffins with Streusel These Blueberry Muffins are as good, if not better, than the ones you'd get at a bakery. They are bursting with fresh berries, tender and moist, and topped with a crunchy streusel. Course Breakfast, brunchCuisine AmericanDiet VegetarianMethod baking Prep Time 20 minutes minutesCook Time 25 minutes minutes Calories 394kcal Author Amy Dong Ingredients1 ½ cups all purpose flour¾ cups granulated sugar½ tsp table salt2 tsp. baking powder⅓ cup canola or olive oil1 large egg room temperature, beaten1 tsp vanilla extract1 tsp lemon juice⅓ cup whole milk slightly more or less1 ½ cups fresh blueberries or more, if you want!For the Streusel:½ cup brown sugar packed⅓ cup all purpose flour¼ cup salted butter cold and cubed2 tsp ground cinnamon InstructionsMake the streusel by combining all streusel ingredients in a bowl. Mix with a fork until mixture resembles coarse, lumpy sand. Keep chilled while you make muffins.Set oven to 400F, with rack on lower middle position. Line standard muffin tins with 8 paper liners.In a large bowl, add flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder, whisking to combine well.In a 1-cup measuring cup, add the oil, egg, vanilla extract, lemon juice, and enough milk to reach 1-cup.Gradually combine oil mixture with the flour mixture, folding batter together with a rubber spatula, just until batter remains a little lumpy and most of the dry ingredients are moistened – a few little dry streaks are perfect. Do not over-mix. Gently fold in the blueberries.Fill lined muffin cups all the way to the top. Sprinkle with your prepared streusel topping. Place baking sheet underneath muffin tin, in case of any spillage.Bake 20-25 min or just until a toothpick inserted in middle comes out almost clean, with a few tender crumbs attached.Place muffin pan on a cooling rack and let cool completely in the pan before serving. Video Notes This recipe is for standard-sized muffin tin. Yields 8 muffins.  Always keep your streusel chilled while you prepare the muffin batter. This will ensure that the streusel stays crumbly and doesn’t melt into the batter before baking. This muffin recipe is quite forgiving, but be sure not to over-mix the batter. Gently fold in the blueberries and mix just until everything is combined for the best texture. Allow the muffins to cool completely in the pan before serving. This helps them set and makes them easier to remove from the liners. Streusel can be made a day or two in advance and kept covered/chilled until ready to use.  If streusel somehow isn’t your thing, try this easy Cream Cheese Frosting that we use on all the cakes. If you enjoyed this recipe, please come back and give it a rating. We hearing from you!    Join our Free Recipe Club and get our newest, best recipes each week! NutritionCalories: 394kcal | Carbohydrates: 60.5g | Protein: 4.4g | Fat: 16.1g | Saturated Fat: 5.2g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 38.7mg | Sodium: 211.4mg | Fiber: 1.8g | Sugar: 35.5g More to Bake and eat Blueberry Lemon French Toast Bake – This Blueberry Lemon French Toast Casserole is easily prepared the night before and baked the morning of. It’s bursting with big flavors of fresh berries and refreshing lemons. The blueberry sauce is incredible. Blueberry Coffee Cake – This easy blueberry coffee cake is super tender and moist, with a light crispy topping. Bursting with juicy blueberries and spices, this blueberry cake is a morning favorite. Easy Blueberry Pie Crumb Bars – These Blueberry Bars with crumble topping are just the ticket when you want a dessert that’s crunchy, fruity, and bursting with flavor. It’s always a hit wherever you bring it Easy Blueberry Sour Cream Cake Recipe – This Blueberry Sour Cream Cake recipe is amazingly easy and ultra scrumptious! With its moist, tender crumb and berry sweetness, it can be enjoyed for breakfast and dessert. The post Bakery Style Blueberry Muffins with Streusel appeared first on Chew Out Loud.

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This is such an Oakland story. The city of Oakland, California, known for its extreme leftism, is replacing some traffic lights in the city with a 4-way stop sign, according to CBS News  The city isn’t taking this step to improve the flow of traffic or anything like that. Instead, city officials decided to remove the traffic signal because copper theft has become rampant, and thieves keep tampering with the electrical boxes that control the lights. Amusingly, the city put up a stop sign to replace the traffic light at the E. 12th St. and 16th Ave. intersection. Locals say that even though it looks strange it’s a huge improvement because usually the traffic light is broken and is causing accidents. However, as with many cases of dysfunctional blue city governance, the deeper problem is that the city won’t address the most fundamental issues: repeat criminality and general lawlessness. Democrat run Oakland can’t keep traffic lights operating, so they replace them with stop signs. Homeless from nearby encampments are stealing copper wires from the traffic lights and stealing power. The city doesn’t know what to do, so they gave up. pic.twitter.com/RQQhoq9Dvz— Ryan Petty (@rpetty) May 20, 2024 According to the locals CBS interviewed in the story, most of the people tampering with the traffic signals are coming from a nearby homeless encampment. Tam Le, owner of an auto repair shop at the corner of the intersection, said of the city’s “solution” in an interview with CBS: “It’s just telling us that the city is giving up on us.” Pretty much, yes. City officials said that the stop signs are temporary and that the traffic lights will come back. But they put no timeline on when that will happen so good luck. Maybe, just maybe, the issue isn’t with the traffic signal or even with the thieves. “If you really want to fix the stop sign, I think you really have to clean up this homeless encampment,” Le said, delivering the kind of commonsense solution to the problem that has apparently escaped the people who run the city. And therein lies the problem. For those who haven’t traveled to a West Coast city recently, homeless encampments have taken over urban landscapes. Oakland is particularly bad. It’s become so bad that the city requested help from the state to start clearing the encampments out. Plenty of other cities have found solutions a lot quicker, but places like Portland and Oakland are slow on the uptake. This is mostly due to the ideology of government officials and the activist organizations who pressure them. They really think that the problem with homelessness is just a “housing” issue and that pushing people off the streets and into shelters is oppressive. Cities like Oakland have only begun to act when it’s become obvious that large, perpetual homeless encampments and open-air drug markets create a climate of criminality and disorder. And even when the city does eventually do something there is typically no follow-up enforcement to ensure that the problem doesn’t simply manifest itself again once the coast is clear. Le, whose auto business has been affected by the homeless encampment, said in the CBS story that the city has moved some of it in the past, but it keeps coming back and getting bigger. He then said if it continues to grow, he will shutter his business like many other people have in the area. So, the city will keep the encampment and lose the dutiful business owner. Sounds like a recipe for success, right? It’s this sort of governance that contributed to the so-called doom loop that places like Oakland and downtown San Francisco are stuck in. It should be no surprise that the In-N-Out fast-food restaurant that closed in Oakland—the first In-N-Out to close, ever—was close to where the problematic intersection is. In almost all these cases of urban decay we see a similar pattern. Lax enforcement of laws—or predictably terrible laws, a retreat from proactive policing, and mind-boggling recidivism. A man apprehended by Oakland police for robbing an ATM in Oakland in January had 25 arrests since 2014. According to Crime Voice, a California crime journalism media outlet, the 39-year-old repeat offender had “previous arrests for kidnappings, robberies, motor vehicle thefts, possession of a controlled substance, and for shootings.” Is it any wonder crime is out of control? In July of last year, the Oakland chapter of the NAACP called on the authorities in the city to start taking its crime problem seriously. “Oakland residents are sick and tired of our intolerable public safety crisis that overwhelmingly impacts minority communities,” the NAACP wrote in a letter. “There is nothing compassionate or progressive about allowing criminal behavior to fester and rob Oakland residents of their basic rights to public safety. It is not racist or unkind to want to be safe from crime.” Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price responded insultingly, “We are disappointed that a great African-American pastor and a great African-American organization would take a false narrative on such an important matter. We would expect more from Bishop Bob Jackson and the Oakland Chapter of the NAACP.” What cities like Oakland have done is create a situation where the burden of disorder has been placed on innocent, helpless citizens who have little recourse other than to leave—if that’s even possible. Even when these cities have begrudgingly rediscovered the value of the police post-George Floyd riot crime boom, they haven’t exactly recovered. Restoring order and creating a healthy, thriving city environment is difficult once anarchy becomes the norm. For some places like Oakland the road back is a long one. Maybe a combination of failure and outraged citizens will get city leaders to wake up to reality. The post A Signal That Oakland Is Slipping Further Into a Doom Loop appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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