White Chocolate Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies

This is one of those recipes....that's name pretty much covers what you are going to find.  If you like white chocolate, blueberries, and oatmeal...oh, and sugar-then....try these!  These were even better than I even thought they'd be....and....I pretend it pretty much covers the whole food pyramid, therefor, totally find to also knock that word cookie off the end and call it a breakfast bar.  ;o)

White Chocolate Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies

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Ingredients: 1 1/4 c. flour, 3/4 c. old fashioned oats,1/2 t. cinnamon, 1/2 t. baking powder, 1/8 t. baking soda, 1/8 t. salt, 1/2 c. unsalted butter (softened), 2/3 c. sugar, 1/4 c. brown sugar, 1 t. vanilla, 1 large egg, 1/2 c. white chocolate chips, 1/2 c. blueberries
Instructions:
1.  In one bowl mix all the dry ingredients except for the sugar.
2.  In a second bowl mix butter and sugar and beat until light and fluffy (about 2 minutes).  Add the vanilla and eggs until mixed well.  Slowly add the flour mix.
3.  Fold in the chips and blueberries.
4.  Drop onto lined baking sheet.
5.  Bake at 350 for 7-8 minutes.  Cool and serve.

Frozen Blueberries

 I love these little guys and they are so easy to make.  Take fresh blueberries, wash and dry them.  Then take a toothpick and dip them into yogurt.  I like vanilla, but any flavor will do.

 Place your dipped blueberries onto a piece of wax paper....

 Place them in the freezer for a few hours.

These are so delicious, and I love grabbing a handful at a time.  Healthy and refreshing.  One pint of blueberries only took about 1/2 c. of yogurt to cover.  I love fresh fruit in my yogurt, but it turns out I like yogurt on my fresh fruit.  :O)  You can do this with any berry, but I love the little berries best, it's the perfect yogurt to berry ratio!

Sour Cream and Blueberry Muffin

 I'm always on a hunt for a blueberry muffin recipe, and this one is a good one.  It's really moist and flavorful!  The full recipe makes 2 dozen+, so I usually half my recipe.

Sour Cream Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients for Muffins: 4 eggs, 21/2 c. white sugar, 1 t. vanilla, 1 1/2 t. cinnamon, 4 c. flour, 1 t. salt, 1 t. baking soda, 2 c. sour cream, 3 c. blueberries

Ingredients for Struseel Topping:  Mix 1/2 c. sugar, 1/3 c. flour, 1/4 c. butter, and 1 1/2 t cinnamon.  Mix with fork and sprinkle over battered before baking.  

Instructions:   

Heat oven to 400 degrees.  Grease 24 muffin cups.  Mix together eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla.  In a separate bowl mix flour, salt, and baking soda.  Slow add dry ingredients into wet.  Stir in sour cream and fold in blueberries.  Don't over mix.  Fill cups almost to the top.  Add streusel topping.  Cook for 20 minutes.  

*You can use frozen blueberries.  Just toss them right in, they will thaw while they are cooking.  For an even sweater muffin you can substitute half of your white sugar for brown sugar.  

1.    Struessel:  To Make Crumb Topping: Mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix with fork, and sprinkle over muffins before baking.

Pancake Cupcakes

These are super easy to make, really delicious (hello, I said, "pancake" and soooo much less of a mess than the grill, which is what tempted me!)

But first....

Ode to a Pancake

Pancake, pancake, 

Light and fluffy.  

Pancake, pancake,

I don't even mind that you make my tummy puffy.  

You.  Are.  Welcome.  

And now, the rocket science required in putting these together.  

Basically, make your favorite batter, pour into greased muffin tins.   If you have fresh fruit or breakfast meats you can toss them on top. 

Bake at 350 for 14 minutes.  Top with butter, syrup, syrup, and maybe some syrup.  

Blueberry Cake

If you've been on pinterest for more than a minute, you've seen this blueberry cake recipe from Alexandra'sKitchen.  Everyone seems to have in pinned, yet I'd heard no reviews, so....it was time.  I halved the recipe, thus the large bread pan in the picture.  It was really moist, less sweet than the traditional muffin, but refreshing.  I love blueberries, and I'll take them in any form, create a cake-and it's all the best life has to offer, at least until lunch.  It says it serves 6-8, but...come on, who shares cake? 
Blueberry Cake
Ingredients:
½ c. butter (room temp), 3/4 c. sugar+ 2 T,   1 T sugar to sprinkle on top, 1 egg, 1 t. vanilla, 2 c. flour, 2 t. baking powder, 1 t. kosher salt, 2 c. fresh blueberries, ½ c, buttermilk
Instructions: 
1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
2.  Cream butter and 3/4 c.+2 T sugar until fluffy.
3. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until combined.
4.  Toss the blueberries with ¼ cup of flour. 
5.  In a separate bowl, mix the rest of the flour, baking powder, and salt.
6. Add the flour mixture to the batter a little at a time, alternating with the buttermilk. Fold in the blueberries.p
7. Grease 9-in sq. pan. Pour in mix. Sprinkle with remaining T. of sugar.
8.  Bake for 35 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before serving. 

Skillet Blueberry Muffin Pancakes

 I recently ran across this recipe in the newspaper.  Uh.....yum!  Seriously, a fun find.  I had some frozen blueberries left over from the summer (it called for fresh blueberries, but it was great with my lil' frozen guys).  This was a great mix of muffin taste in pancake form.  I can't describe it, unless 'yum' paints the picture.  I'm definitely adding this to my breakfast go to file. 
Ingredients: 
2 c. flour, 1/2 c. sugar, 1 T. baking powder, 3 t. cinnamon (divided use), 1/2 t. salt, 1 c. milk, 1 egg, 2 T veg oil, 1 t. vanilla, 1 c. blueberries (fresh or frozen worked for me), 2 T. brown sugar
Instructions: 
Mix flour, sugar, b. powder, 1 t. cinnamon, salt.
In a separate bowl whisk milk, egg, oil, and vanilla.  Add the liquid to the dry. 
Mix and add blueberries. 
In another bowl mix brown sugar and remaining 2 t. of cinnamon. 
Heat a skillet over med.  Coat with cooking spray, reduce to low.  Ladle in batter (1/4 to 1/3 cup for each).  Sprinkle the top with topping mix. 

Cover and cook for 6-8 minutes (should have risen and be brown on the bottom).  Flip and cook another 2-4 minutes.  Serves 4. 

Blueberry Oat Streusel Muffins...Or...The Best Muffins EVER

If you try no other recipes I ever try....try this one.  Serioulsy, these...are...so...good.  I've tried out blueberry muffins in the past from rather well known bakers, and I've always been just a little disappointed, but I ran across this recipe in a cookbook I checked out from the library called Light and Luscious by Oxmoor House.  They have obviously never been to a WW meeting becauses it's not light, BUT all this great lusciousness makes up for it! 

Here's the recipe...go make some....and send me a half dozen, thanks. 

Blueberry Oat Streusel Muffin Recipe

Ingredients for Streusel Topping:  1/3 c. oats, 3 T. brown sugar, 1 T. flour, 1 T. butter, 2 T. chopped almonds

Instructions for Streusel Topping:  Blend with a food processor until consistancy of coarse meal, or cut with a pastry cutter.  Set aside.

Ingredients for Blueberry Muffins:  2 c. flour, 2 t. baking powder, 1/4 t. baking soda, 1/4 t. salt, 1/2 c. sugar, 2 t. lemon rinds (I left this out b/c I didn't have it), 1 1/2 c. fresh or frozen blueberries, 3/4 c. buttermilk, 1/4 c. vegetable oil, 1 egg.

Instructions for Blueberry Muffins:  Mix together dry ingredients.  In a separate bowl mix wet ingredients.  Make a well in dry ingredients, pour in wet ingredients.  Stir until dry ingredients are moist.  Spoon into 12 muffin cups.  Top with streusel mix. 

Bake at 400 degrees for 18 minutes.  Remove immedietely from pan. 

Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Chips

This is a recipe Regan shared with me this past weekend.  We served it at her graduation barbecue and it was a big hit.  She said it's 'her dish' she brings to all parties now, and it's delicious.  I had a dip like this years ago, but in my memory, it required more ingredients. 

You can really mix this up with any fruit, and it makes a lot more than the cup shown.  She said she generally sticks with the berry family. 

Salsa Ingredients/Instructions:  1 carton of strawberries (pulsed to chunky in a blender), 3 kiwis peeled and diced, 1 pint blueberries (quartered), 2 apples (peeled and diced).  Mix and chill until serving (this is best when it marries overnight in the fridge). 

Cinnamon/Sugar Tortilla Chips Ingredients/Instructions:  Buy a 10 pack of flour tortillas.  Spray with spray butter, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mix.  Bake on a cooking stone at 400 degrees for about 7 minutes (you might lower the time/temperature if you are using a metal cooking tray).  Store in an airtight container or baggie if you are not serving right away so they stay crisp. 

Berry Good Stuff

I love this recipe that my friend, Jolene shared with me a few months back. It's the perfect time to make it b/c the blueberries are amazing right now. It's really low calorie (if you use 'light' everything)...for a dessert. She said this is a common recipe in magazines, and she cuts down on the number of vanilla wafers, and uses light cool whip, and cream cheese, and milk.
1. Coarsely Crush 24 Vanilla Wafers, and layer half at the bottom of 8 small cups (or the bottom of a bowl).
2. Slice 2 c. of strawberries, and rinse 1/2 pint of blueberries. Put half of the berries on top of the wafers.
3. Mix Cheesecake Pudding, 1 and 1/2 c. milk, 1 c. coolwhip, and one 8 oz. cream cheese. Layer half of the filling on the berries.
4. Repeat the layers once more, and then top with the remainder of the cool whip. Cover, and chill for several hours, or overnight before serving.
Serves 8.