1)First step, crumble

1. To make blackberry crumble muffins i like to start by making the crumble, its super easy and takes only minutes to prepare.
2. In a bowl combine granulated sugar, some lemon zest, brown sugar, all purpose flour and soft butter. Use your fingers to it the butter into the mixture until it resembles wet crumbs. The butter should be evenly distributed throughout the mixture. Keep in the fridge for later.

2)Second step, lemon zest

1. Choose a fresh lemon and make sure to clean it throughly, dry it and zest it. You can use a zester or grater and rub the lemon against it, then collect all the zest.
2. In a clean and dry bowl pour in the granulated sugar and the lemon zest. Rub them together using your fingers for about a minute so the zest can release all the natural oils.

3)Third step, dry ingredients

1. To the same bowl you can add the all purpose flour and baking powder. Mix them until all the ingredients are fully incorporated and set aside.

4)Forth step, wet ingredients

1. In a separate bowl crack 2 really small eggs or 2 eggs and use only 1 and a half. To use one and a half you wanna crack one egg into a bowl, beat it with a whisk, separate half of it and store it in the fridge to use on another recipe and to the half egg that was in the bowl add one more egg so you can have one and a half.
2. Add the milk and vegetable oil.

5)Fifth step, whisk

1. use a whisk for this step and beat all the eggs with the oil and the milk until you can see them becoming smooth with no egg lumps.

6)Sixth step, dry to wet

1. Pour in the dry ingredients into the bowl with the wet ingredients and combine them together using an spatula, keep in mind we don’t wanna over mix this batter so you should still see flour lumps on the batter, no need to fix them.

7)Seventh step, blackberries

1. Add some flour to the blackberries and mix them a little bit so they don’t sink when baking. Only do this if they’re frozen. Add them to the batter and give them a quick mix.
2. Pre heat your oven at 210 C or 410 F

8)Eight step, muffin tin

1. Grease your muffin tin of choice, we are using our Russel Hobbs muffin pan (26.5 x 17.5 x 3 cm), cleans super easy and nothing sticks to it it’s perfect.
2. Add muffin liners im using the white 5 cm liners from Amazon they come in packs of 100 and cost less than 3 euros.
3. Fill them to the top with the batter and add the crumble on top.

9)Ninth step, bake

1. Once the oven is at the right temperature you wanna bake them for 13-14 minutes (210C 410F) after that time Lower your oven temperature to 170C 340F and cook for 3-4 minute or until they’re fully cooked.
2. insert a wooden toothpick on the center to check, if you see wet crumbs then its ready but if all you see is wet batter it needs more time. All ovens work different so they always take different time to bake is really important that you pay attention so the blackberry crumble muffins don’t over cook.