Or “never trust a recipe over experience”.

Last year, the blackberries fell victim to a hungry deer that ate all the flowers. This year, they#re getting ripe and are delicious, so I decided to make muffins.

I googled a basic recipe for cream cheese and blueberry muffins and came up with the following:

• 1/2 cup of oil
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 oz cream cheese
• vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1.5 cups flour
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 0.25 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• blueberries

OK, I exchanged the oil for butter and the buttermilk for Greek yoghurt (which was only a quarter cup), yet still it seemed to be a lot of liquid, but well, that#s what the recipe said. The taste was delicious, but they did what muffins do when they are too wet: they crawled all over the baking tray.

Next time, less yoghurt.