Description
A quick and easy recipe to make soft and moist blueberry muffins with a crumb topping ( for about 12 large muffins)
Ingredients
Blueberry Muffins
- 75 g (1/2 stick + 1/ 1/2 tbsp) Butter - unsalted and softened or melted and cooled
- 75 g (1/4 cup) Vegetable oil - rapeseed or grape seed oil
- 150 g (2/3 cup) Sugar - granulated
- 2 Eggs - large at room temperature
- 390 g (2 2/3 cups) Flour - all-purpose
- 250 ml (1 cup) Buttermilk - or milk
- 2 tsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking soda
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1/2 (1/4 cup) lemon juice
- 1 tbsp Flour (to mix with blueberries)
- 200 g (1 1/3 cups) blueberries - Fresh or Frozen
Crumble (optional)
- 70 g (1/2 cup) Flour - plain flour or all purpose
- 70 g (2/3 cup) Almond meal
- 70 g (1/3 cup) Cane sugar - or light brown sugar
- 70 g (1/2 stick + 1 tbsp) Butter - unsalted and cold
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon ground
Instructions
Crumble (Streusel)
- Place all the ingredients, cold butter, flour, almond meal, cane sugar, pinch of salt and cinnamon ground in a medium bowl.
- Mix with your hands until you obtain a slightly compact dough and then crumble into small pieces.
- Place in the fridge while making the muffins.
Blueberry muffins
- Start by preheating the oven to 425°F / 220°C and placing paper liners in a muffin pan.
- Mix together the dry ingredients, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
- In another large bowl, whisk together the softened butter, vegetable oil, granulated sugar, eggs, vanillaextract and lemon juice until you have a smooth batter.
- Then add the dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately, mixing gently between each addition until you have a thick batter with a few lumps.
- In a small bowl mix together the blueberries with a tablespoon of flour.
- Fold in the blueberries to the muffin batter and gently mix with a spatula to incorporate them.
- Pour the blueberry muffin batter into the paper cups until they are completely filled.
- Place a few blueberries on top if needed and add the streusel crumble.
Baking the muffins
- Bake the muffins for about 25 minutes, 5 minutes at 425°F / 220°C, then lower the temperature to 392°F / 200°C and bake for the remaining 20 minutes.
- The muffins are ready when they are golden brown, check the cooking by plunging a toothpick in the center of the muffins, which should come out clean.
- Let the muffins cool a little before removing them from the pan, then let them cool completely on a cake rack.
Notes
- If you don't want to use the crumble then simply sprinkle the top of the muffins with cane sugar before baking.
Storage: 1 week at room temperature and up to 3 months in the freezer
Buttermilk substitute :
Mix one tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar with enough milk to make one cup, then let it sit for five minutes before using. Or make a mixture of milk and sour cream, or milk and Greek yogurt, or plain yogurt.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: breakfast, Dessert, snack
- Cuisine: american
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 muffin
- Calories: 421
- Sugar: 21
- Sodium: 242
- Fat: 21
- Saturated Fat: 12
- Carbohydrates: 53
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 7
- Cholesterol: 56