Small-Batch Chocolate Blueberry Muffins

I made muffins. I never make muffins. But I thought these small-batch chocolate blueberry muffins were worth the making.

It’s still blueberry season here in Michigan, which to be honest seems a little late to me given when we went picking the past few years. And there are enough unripe berries to keep us picking the next few weeks.

But then again where are the peaches? Not ripe yet, apparently either. Are we going to be eating the years’ best peaches in September? Seems at this rate, yes.

Everything is happening a little slower this summer, despite the fact that summer has flown by in a blink and my friends and I are all lamenting the fact that we have not biked/laked/eaten enough ice cream to satisfy ourselves come fall.

Are you doing a better job about it?

Anyway, back to these muffins. We went blueberry picking last Saturday and despite my efforts to not fill up a pail, constantly reminding myself that “you are one person, you do not need 5 pounds of blueberries,” the pail filled itself to over half.

Two and a half pounds, in case you were wondering.

And while I can definitely freeze them for later, I took inspiration from some cookies that they sell in the farm’s bakeshop – blueberry, with white and dark chocolate.  They are good, so I decided to make muffins about it.

One of the reasons that I almost never make muffins is because, like the overpicking of blueberries problem, I am but one person and do not need 12 muffins sitting around to go bad, because in case you didn’t know I’m a super-rationer so no doubt that by the time I got around to eating that last muffin two weeks later, I wouldn’t want it or it will have gone bad.

I almost had that problem with these Earl Grey Blueberry Muffins from a bit ago, and it would have been a shame for those to go to waste.

Joy the Baker together with Broma Bakery to the rescue, and two of their muffin recipes into these babes.  Soft muffins chock full of fresh blueberries, both dark and white chocolate and topped with a generous coating of caster sugar.

The result? Well, damn, I should make muffins more often.