Self-Rising Chocolate Chip Berry Muffins

Looking for an easy recipe to make for homemade muffins in the morning? It doesn't get any easier than these Self-Rising Chocolate Chip Berry Muffins. They're sure to be a family fave!

~by Regan Jones, RD

I'm not the best mom in the world.

I've come to accept that I'm not the mom who does fun crafts or volunteers frequently at school. I don't really enjoy board games and you can forget me gettin' out in the backyard to throw the football (and it's not because I'm not asked. A lot.) 

But what I lack in some memorable mom moments, I hope I make up for in food mini-traditions. 

Things like Panera Friday... the weekly breakfast visit my boys and I have been doing since my youngest was in pre-K. 

Pancake Wednesdays... a weekly breakfast tradition we enjoy that helps get us over the midweek slump. (My boys are a lot more excited to hop out of bed when they know hot buttermilk pancakes are waiting downstairs). 

I've recently added in Cinnamon Rolls Sundays... a new addition that popped up after I reclaimed my long lost bread-maker. 

And then of course, there's Muffin Monday... when I make a batch of muffins to start the week and use for snacks later in the week. 

Today's recipe is what I served this week for Muffin Monday: 

While I often fall back on this particularly quick and easy blueberry muffin recipe on Mondays (I sub in whole wheat flour for half of the recipe), I went a different route this week, thanks to The Recipe ReDux. 

Today marks the end of the 2017 season of ReDux and as is our tradition, we challenged members to grab a book and cook from it. I grabbed my go-to classic "Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook" and turned to page 17 (this is part of the ReDux fun... we turn to a page that relates to the year we're ending). But on page 17, I found no recipes. It was just an intro glossary of pantry staples. 

What I did find, though, was an entry for self-rising flour. Knowing that there was a self-rising flour recipe on KingArthurFlour.com I'd been wanting to make, I took some liberties with the theme and used page 17 as a jumping off place to take this recipe and make it my own. 

Part of the "tradition" whenever I serve something new in my house is to receive a rating for the dish, Dancing with the Stars style. My boys hold up an imaginary card with a number rating (you think blog audiences are tough? Try having a test tasting panel at every meal!) These muffins scored a 9 3/4 out of 10, making them a definite addition to our Muffin Monday line up. Like me, they're not perfect. But they're close enough that no one is complaining.

I hope you enjoy them. And if you have any food traditions you do with your family, I'd love to hear about them! 

~Regan

To see what other ReDux members are serving up this month, click over to the ReDux site:

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