Top Heavy Blueberry Muffins

By Alton Brown.

The main reason for placing so much batter in each hole is to produce enough rise and spread for a proper muffin top.

Ingredients

  • 22 ounces all-purpose flour

  • 4 teaspoons baking powder

  • 2 teaspoons baking soda

  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt

  • 8 ounces sugar

  • 1 cup vegetable oil

  • 2 large eggs

  • 2 large egg yolks

  • 16 ounces plain whole fat yogurt

  • 1 tablespoon orange zest

  • 12 ounces fresh blueberries

  • 2 tablespoons demerera sugar

Directions

  • Heat the oven to 375 degrees F and coat a standard 12-cup muffin pan (and one small oven safe ramekin) with non-stick spray.

  • Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl. In second bowl whisk together the sugar, oil, eggs, yolks, yogurt and orange zest until smooth.

  • Make a crater in the middle of the dry ingredients and pour the wet ingredients into it. Stir with a rubber spatula until just barely combined. Resist the urge to over-mix – there should be a some lumps of flour in the batter

  • Fold in the blueberries, mixing just to combine.

  • Drop about a cup of batter in each of the muffin tin’s wells. Whatever’s left over can be dropped into the prepared ramekin. The cups should be quite full.

  • Sprinkle the muffins with the demerera sugar and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the bottom of a muffin comes out clean.

  • Remove from oven and turn out, upside down, onto a clean tea towel to cool completely. This step is key in preventing mushy muffin bottoms, which nobody and I do mean nobody likes.

  • Serve immediately or store in an airtight container for up to a week (or until they taste gross, smell bad, or grow fur).