Lemon and Blueberry Cheesecake and Cherry Bakewell Muffins
My wife and I decided to have a bit of fun together by doing a home bake off competition. She chose the challenge of something that I confessed to not having that much experience with, muffins. My version are a lemon and blueberry muffins filled with a lemon cream cheese mixture, and my wife's are a glace cherry and flaked almond muffin filled with raspberry jam and topped with icing and a cherry half. I've put the recipe below for the blueberry muffins and if you want to make the cherry bakewell ones you can find the recipe here . The only issue with our bake off competition is that we didn't have a neutral judge, so it did make it hard to decide on the winner. There were points of improvement to consider for both. Shannon's had a really nice crunchy from the flaked almonds and sweetness from the jam but the texture could do with some improving through a bit less mixing and possibly chilling before baking to relax the gluten, and Nicole's were light and soft but...
