Blackberry forage = muffins!

[redcollective]

A short forage in the sunny patches of our local woods today brought forth a wonderful big bowl of blackberries, half of which are now in our freezer.

Wife/Superforager dug up a blueberry recipe on the interweb and modded it a tiny bit for our fruit (alterations in bold):

Serving size: Serves 10 or more
Cooking time: Less than 30 minutes

INGREDIENTS

300g (2 cups) self-raising flour
150g (1 cup) plain flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2 eggs, lightly beaten
375ml (1½ cups) milk
190ml (¾ cup) oil
200g (ish) blackberries
Topping
¼ cup brown sugar
35g (¼ cup) plain flour
40g butter, chopped

METHOD

Grease 16 holes of 2 x 12 hole (1/3 cup capacity) muffin pans. Sift dry ingredients into bowl, stir in sugar, then combined eggs, milk and oil; do not over-mix, batter should be lumpy. Mix the muffin mixture with the blackberries, pour it in your greased muffin tins and spinkle over the topping. Bake at 200°C for about 20 minutes or until browned and firm. Stand 2 minutes, remove from pan; cool on wire rack.
Topping: Combine sugar and flour in bowl; rub in butter.

Here's a picture of the result, for which I can take no credit:

They taste very good, quite moist because of all that oil. You'll notice one is missing!

Cheers,