Blueberry Gems

Yesterday I posted a recipe for Blueberry Muffins w/ Orange Honey Butter. I'm currently obsessed with those things, and I've been eating them all week, but my husband is currently obsessed with Blueberry Gems. Why? Because he's the Muffin Man, and they are muffins. And because of the buttery-cinnamony-sugarness. 

Don't believe me? See for yourself. See?

I posted a very similar recipe recently, so if it's not blatantly obvious, we are blueberry people in this here household! 

These are not "gems" unless they are made in something that makes them bite sized. You can be creative and even plop a dollop of... uh, not daisy (eww)...batter on a cookie sheet like cookies, but whatever you do, make them bite sized! You're tongue will thank you. Your entire mouth will thank you. You will thank you. 

I used a mini muffin tin. But like I said, use whatever your little heart, er, tastebuds desire. 

Blueberry Gems

Ingredients

• 3 cups white wheat flour
• 3 teaspoons Baking Powder
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• ½ teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
• 3/4 cup Sugar
• ⅔ cups Shortening
• 2 Eggs
• 1 cup Milk

  Directions: 

Preheat oven to 350. 

Mix flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg together in a bowl. In a separate bowl, beat sugar and shortening for a couple minutes on medium speed. Add eggs to sugar and shortening mixture, and beat for a about 10 seconds. Add half of flour and beat for a few seconds, then add half of milk, beating for a few seconds. Next, add the rest of the flour and beat, and then the rest of the milk and beat. Everything should be combined. Fill each muffin cup up to the top, and bake for about 20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

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Meanwhile, when you pop them out of the oven, they will look like this:

Just plain ol' blueberry muffins. But not really. It's deceptive, you see. These are whole wheat, and they have less sugar than the regulars. Why? Because first of all - I think they taste better with less sugar, second of all - I never, ever use sugar substitutes, and third of all - we are coating them with more sugar, so it's pointless to add a lot of sugar in the batter.

Now, let's make them more healthy, shall we?

Stuff that makes them "Gems"

2 sticks Butter, melted

1 C Sugar

 3 TSP Cinnamon

Directions: 

Place butter in one bowl, and in another bowl, mix cinnamon and sugar. Dip gems into butter and coat evenly, and then dip in cinnamon sugar mixture, coating evenly. At this point, they look like this:

This one had less cinnamon. 

And this one had a little more. They look prettier with less cinnamon, but taste better with more. 

And really..who cares about appearance, when you have a muffin coated in cinnamon and sugar!

Enjoy!