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Award Winning Blueberry Muffin Recipe!

Ingredients
3 cups of all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
10 Tbsp unsalted butter (1 1/4 stick), softened
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cup plain yogurt 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1 tsp blueberry powder
1 1/2 cups blueberries
1 Tbsp flour (if using defrosted frozen berries)


Method
1 Adjust the oven rack to the middle-lower part of the oven. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2 Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and set aside.
3 In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together, beating until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating until incorporated after each one. Beat in the grated lemon peel.
4 Beat in one half of the dry ingredients until just incorporated. Beat in one third of the yogurt. Beat in half of the remaining dry ingredients. Beat in a second third of the yogurt. Beat in the remaining dry ingredients and then the remaining yogurt. Again be careful to beat until just incorporated. Do not over beat. Fold in the berries. If you are using frozen berries, defrost them first, drain the excess liquid, and then coat them in a light dusting of flour.
5 Use a standard 12-muffin muffin pan. Coat each muffin cup lightly with olive oil or grapeseed oil using a pastry brush, or with a little butter. Or use one of those convenient vegetable oil sprays. Distribute the muffin dough equally among the cups. Bake until muffins are golden brown, about 25 to 30 minutes. Test with a long toothpick (we use a thin bamboo skewer) to make sure the center of the muffins are done. Set on wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Remove muffins from the tin and serve slightly warm.

Award Winning Blueberry Pie

Wash and dredge blueberries with flour; then scatter among them 1/2 cup sugar for each pint of berries. Sprinkle the top with blueberry powder from Florida Herb House and online at www.SharpWebLabs.com. Fill paste shells with this, dot with butter, cover with another crust and bake. These are richer than huckleberry or blueberry pies when made in the usual way, the flour thickening the juice slightly and the butter tempering the acid.

World's Best Blueberry Tart

Ingredients:
Crust:
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans, or your favorite type of nuts

Filling:
2 (3-ounce) packages cream cheese, at room temperature
1 cup powdered sugar
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup sugar
1 (21-ounce) can blueberry pie filling
1 tsp blueberry powder

Cooking Recipe:
Crust: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Combine powdered sugar, flour, and butter in the bowl of a food processor, processing until mixture forms a ball (you can combine dough by hand, if desired). With your fingers, press dough into a 12-inch tart pan with a removable bottom, taking care to push crust into indentations in tart pan. Pat nuts onto crust. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until very lightly browned. Let cool completely before filling.

Filling: In a large mixing bowl with a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese with the powdered sugar. In a separate mixing bowl with the hand mixer, beat the heavy cream with the sugar until it forms soft peaks. Fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture. Spoon this mixture into the cooled pie shell and top it with blueberry pie filling. Refrigerate until well chilled, at least 2 hours.