Lemon Blueberry Muffins – Sally’s Baking Habit

Immediately’s lemon blueberry muffin recipe is a variation of my primary muffin recipe. I barely lowered the butter as a result of I discovered the muffins too fragile with the lemon juice and so many blueberries. (You’ll use the remainder of the stick of butter within the topping!)

This batter can be utilized to create infinite muffin varieties and also you’ll see it once more in my traditional blueberry muffins, peach muffins, cranberry orange muffins, apple cinnamon muffins, and extra.

Listed here are the entire components you want for the muffin batter, and why every is vital:

• Flour: All-purpose flour is the bottom of those muffins.
• Baking Soda & Baking Powder: Each leaveners assist the muffins rise. See my trick under for super-tall bakery-style muffin tops.
• Salt & Vanilla Extract: Salt and pure vanilla extract add taste. Attempt utilizing home made vanilla extract.
• Butter: We use creamed butter for a lighter, fluffier texture. My orange lemon poppy seed muffins are made with melted butter for a denser, heartier texture.
• Sugar: In my muffin recipe, I swap between brown sugar and granulated sugar. I like to make use of granulated sugar in as we speak’s muffins so the lemon taste actually shines, however like to make use of brown sugar in my blueberry muffins for a bit of additional taste.
• Eggs: 2 eggs bind all the things collectively.
• Yogurt: Greek yogurt provides moisture. Use your favourite yogurt—I desire nonfat or low-fat plain Greek yogurt however common (not Greek) could be simply nice, and any fats content material. Bitter cream is a superb substitute in the event you don’t have yogurt.
• Milk: You should utilize dairy or nondairy milk.
• Lemon Juice & Lemon Zest: We’re utilizing each, for many zingy lemon taste. Make sure that to zest the lemon earlier than slicing and juicing it—a lot simpler to do it on this order!
• Blueberries: You should utilize contemporary or frozen berries. If utilizing frozen, don’t thaw earlier than utilizing.

You possibly can additionally add poppy seeds, like I do in these blackberry lemon poppy seed muffins.

Immediately’s crumb topping doesn’t have cinnamon, in contrast to many streusel recipes. It’s simply brown sugary, lemony, and candy. I like cinnamon within the crumb topping on these blueberry muffins, however right here the cinnamon would take away from the zesty lemon in these muffins. And we would like that lemon taste to actually shine by!

The crumb topping comes collectively rapidly and simply within the small bowl—simply use a fork to mix the melted butter, brown sugar, flour, and lemon zest.

For large bakery-style muffin tops, there are 3 instructions to observe carefully:

1. Make sure that your muffin batter is THICK. (This one is!)
2. Fill your muffin cups all the best way to the highest.
3. Bake the muffins for five minutes at an preliminary excessive temperature, then scale back the temperature for the remaining bake time. This preliminary excessive oven temperature rapidly lifts up the muffin tops. As soon as the temperature is lowered, the facilities of the muffins bake. I do that in all my muffin recipes, together with zucchini muffins and banana muffins too!