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Streusel Topped Blueberry Muffins

"This is a really moist muffin if you don't overwork the batter. I'm a 'muffin snob' and I find myself making this same recipe over and over again! You'll never want to make a boxed blueberry muffin again."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 19,175 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

The recipe

1 dozen
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 375°F (190°C) and line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.

  2. In a small bowl, combine 2 tablespoons flour, 5 tablespoons sugar and the ground cinnamon. Cut in the 2 tablespoons diced butter with your fingertips until crumbly. Set aside.

  3. In a medium bowl, whisk the 2 cups flour, baking powder and salt together.

  4. In a small bowl, toss the blueberries with the 1 1/2 tablespoons flour so they coat lightly.

  5. In a large bowl, beat the 1/2 cup softened butter and 3/4 cup sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla and lemon zest.

  6. Add the flour mixture and milk alternately to the butter mixture, starting and ending with flour, mixing just until combined. Gently fold in the floured blueberries.

  7. Divide the batter among the liners, filling each about three-quarters full. Sprinkle the streusel evenly over the tops.

  8. Bake 22 to 25 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then move the muffins to a rack.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Vanilla + milktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, milk, cinnamon):

  1. Figbetter flavor fit
  2. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, milk, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).