Blueberry Mad

It's official, summer has turned me and my family blueberry mad. There are blueberries everywhere in my house, including the larder because we've now run out of room in the fridge. So as you can guess, due to their short life span, it's becoming quite a challenge to eat them all. Therefore I thought, being the noble and selfless person that I am, I'd try to use most of them up in various baking escapades. My first use of them were in the 'Healthy' Blueberry Muffins however that merely dented the enormous quantity of blueberries, therefore I moved on to bigger and better things in the form of... Blueberry Cheesecake.

Personally, I don't really like cheesecake anymore. This shocking turn of events probably occurred due to the fact that my GCSE Food Tech final product was a cheesecake, and therefore I spent about three months testing every single possible variation on the classic vanilla cheesecake, so I'm slightly cheesecaked out. However I was required to contribute something to a barbecue, and as most people love cheesecake and it's quite a summery dessert I thought it would be the perfect opportunity.

I was er just slightly indecisive in choosing exactly what cheesecake I was going to make and therefore ended up making it the morning of the barbecue, so had to go for a baked cheesecake as there wasn't enough time for a chilled one to set. 

'Healthy' Blueberry Muffins

I know what you're thinking, the words healthy and muffin aren't usually put together. And if they are the result is usually tough and bitter and just generally an unpleasant experience. However, due to the whole summer aka wearing shorts and bikinis ALL THE TIME situation that has suddenly occurred I decided to try and find a solution to the fact that cakes aren't exactly low in calories.

It took a lot of googling, recipe book reading and consultations with my mum before I finally found a recipe that sounded like it could actually taste nice. And it was blueberry muffins, which is always a bonus because who doesn't love a good blueberry muffin?! Especially in summer, with a glass of lemonade and a really good book (even if it is 50 Shades of Grey -yes I'm talking to all you creeps that read it in public - just why?!) 

So I set about to making BBC Good Foods Blueberry Muffins with 'virtually no saturated fat', making a few adjustments along the way.