Circles, Not Spheres

Sometimes I think I am going to do a lot of things.

Thanks to Kelly, lolo and General Mills for your inspiration (links below).

Photographing and gazing at my petri dishes makes me want to make round things. I am making round things right now - whole wheat orange blueberry cupcakes. I'm including some round things I would like to make, but I am NOT GOING TO. You can make them. Do you like hamburgers? These are not hamburgers. Do you like food? Betty Crocker has something different for you. It is called what looks like plastic but isn't and it isn't food either. The knitting cupcakes are probably going to be hard hard hard - they include a how-to video.

Muffins:
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup unbleached white flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/4 cups buttermilk
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
grated zest from one orange
1 cup fresh blueberries

Heat oven to 350º f. Grease the bottoms ONLY of your muffin cups. (One regular 12 cup tin, or a 6 cup "Texas" size tin). You will need to run a butter knife gently around each muffin when they are all done, but boy do they climb the walls if the walls aren't greasy slippery slopes.
Mix the dry ingredients in a big bowl. Mix the wet ingredients and the orange zest in a medium bowl. Save the blueberries for the end. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir that up gently.
Then add the blueberries. Fold them in as lightly as you can but don't take too long about it. You don't want to lose all that fluffy carbon dioxide hiding in the batter. Evenly divide the batter among the muffin cups.
Bake them (don't open that door to peek! Until close to the end!) 30 - 35 minutes for the regular size and about 45 minutes for the Texas size. Turn them out onto a rack to cool. You will need the butter knife. They are kind of like heavy clouds made out of food, so handle with care!