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The Best Blueberry Muffins

01/23/2019 By Charlene 3 Comments

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Delicious, bakery style blueberry and lemon muffins published on MyFrugalAdventures.com.

Sometimes a muffin is the right answer.  Not a cookie.  Not a cupcake.  A muffin.  A friend of mine always takes blueberry muffins as hostess gifts or when she wants to just take something homemade to a friend or neighbor.  I think it is brilliant because muffins aren’t too sweet.  You can eat them any time of day.  Add fresh squeezed OJ and your host has a delicious breakfast ready for the following morning.

I have made many, many variations of blueberry muffins over the years.  Often I am so excited to smell them baking in the oven and then you get them out of the oven and they disappoint.  Too much flour… too sweet… too bland.

Well friends.  Search no more.  These blueberry muffins are the best and they come out perfectly every time I bake them.  You can use fresh blueberries or frozen – substitute cranberries and orange zest for the holiday season or stick with the classic blueberry and lemon that I love.  Don’t have lemon?  Try orange or lime zest.  You can’t go wrong here.

The best blueberry muffin recipe published on MyFrugalAdventures.com

So ready for a delicious muffin?  Here goes:

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The Best Blueberry Muffins
Author: My Frugal Adventures
Prep time:  10 mins
Cook time:  30 mins
Total time:  40 mins
Serves: 12
 
The best blueberry muffins
Ingredients
  • ½ Cup butter, softened
  • 1¼ cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 2 cups + 1 tablespoon flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ cup milk
  • 2 cups blueberries (frozen or fresh)
  • zest of one lemon
  • raw sugar (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
  3. Add vanilla and one egg at a time, mixing between each addition.
  4. In a separate bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and salt.
  5. Alternate the dry ingredients with the milk into the butter mixture, mixing on low until completely incorporated. Careful not to overmix the batter.
  6. Place berries in your dry ingredients bowl.
  7. Add 1 tablespoon flour to the berries, gently shaking the bowl to evenly coat without crushing the fruit.
  8. Add berries to batter along with the zest of a lemon and gently fold in.
  9. Fill your lined or greased muffin tin with batter and bake for about 30-35 minutes.
  10. *Optional: top muffins with a pinch of sugar in the raw prior to baking.
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Makes 12 large muffins.

I hope you decide to try this recipe and be sure to come back and let me know what you think.  I have tweaked this recipe a bit from an original recipe published in the NY Times.  

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Comments

  1. Caitlyn says

    01/29/2019 at 7:41 PM

    Thank you for the recipe!! I made them and they were delicious!!!!

  2. Charlene says

    01/30/2019 at 9:20 AM

    So happy to hear that Caitlyn! Thank you for taking the time to come back and comment. 🙂

  3. Anna says

    12/30/2019 at 1:05 PM

    Ooooh, “the smell of blueberry muffins baking in the oven” – I imagine it, just feel it in my nostrils ahaha 🙂 I adore pastry with blueberry, cranberry, and so on. By the way, northern berries are my endless love: they evoke the most vivid and pleasant memories of my childhood in the North. I remember I picked them in the woods with my grandparents. We baked cakes, cookies, preserved them, made jams, and just ate them sprinkled with sugar powder. These blueberry muffins remind me of those times of endless happiness and carelessness. That’s why I can’t stand them, I’m a huge fan of the northern berries.
    Charlene, thank you for this wonderful recipe! It was also kind of to share the links to similar dishes.
    Your blog is awesome, just keep it up. And Happy New Year!

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