Muffin Week

This week was all about muffins, from the thousands of muffin recipes that I found and liked, I only ended up making two different muffin recipes.  It was hard to choose which muffins to make but I ended up decideing on Blueberry Buttermilk Muffins and Chocolate Chip Muffins.  Both recipes turned out well (not as great as I would have liked them), but everyone at work seemed to enjoy them.  Personally I liked the blueberry muffins better, mainly because of their great flavor, but I wish the texture of the muffins (for both recipes) could have been a bit fluffier (but I'm really picky when it comes to muffins). 

 
The blueberry muffins had a great flavor combination from the sugar, orange zest and blueberries and their texture was more like a scone but that wasn't a bad thing.  The chocolate chip muffins were a bit sweeter in flavor with a nice hint of vanilla and sugar but I found the texture to be bit on the chewy side which was just OK.  I've posted both recipes above but I slightly altered the chocolate chip muffin recipe by replacing the nutmeg for vanilla extract and by adding chocolate chips to the batter rather than using the cinnamon sugar topping. 

Here is a list of runner up muffin recipes that I've put aside for the next time that I have another Muffin Week! Let me know if you try one of these recipes or if you have a favorite muffin recipe of your own.
-Double Chocolate Muffins
-Chocolate Yogurt Muffins
-Oatmeal Cinnamon Chip Muffins
-Chocolate Chip Rum Raisin Scones (I know these arn't muffins but they looked good)
-Poppy Seed Pound Cake Muffins
-Mocha Muffins