Berry Muffins

"This is a recipe from The Muffin Lady cookbook, that I changed a little bit. It makes a delicious, bakery style muffin. I use a frozen berry mix, and the combination is heavenly."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
10
Yields:
6 muffins
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Sift the dry ingredients together.
  • Mix in the eggs, oil, butter, milk and vanilla.
  • Fold in your choice of berries.
  • (I get a blend of frozen berries at my grocery store--raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries. These make a great mixed berry muffin,and they're much more economical than fresh. But use what you have) Pour into lightly greased, standard 12 muffin pan, or large 6 muffin pan.
  • (Tip-an ice cream scoop makes easy work of this task, and muffins are the same size.) Bake for 30-40 minutes, start checking at 30 minutes or so.
  • Cool in pan on rack for about 5 minutes, then turn on out on rack to cool.

Questions & Replies

  1. Do you thaw berries before using
     
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Reviews

  1. I was definitely skeptical about the use of frozen berries but, they were the only berries I had. I thought these muffins were going to be a gross consistency because of it but, they were some of the best muffins I have EVER made. Just enough sweetness, the berries tasted super fresh and light, and the consistency of the muffin itself was spot on. I used a frozen mixed berry assortment and chopped the giant chunks of strawberries before adding to the batter.
     
  2. As others have noted, the muffins from this recipe are not very sweet. That's fine for me, but knowing who I was making them for, I increased the sugar by about 70% and, with the added fruit, the sweetness ended up just about right. I also doubled the fruit, which might have been a little too much, as it turned out almost more like a tart than a muffin (but still yummy). I'd suggest a 50% increase in fruit. <br/><br/>One of my pet peeves in recipes is when the "preparation time" is unrealistically low. That was the case here. Five minutes?? Having none of the ingredients measured out in advance, it took me 20 minutes between when I started and when the muffins were in the oven. (Okay, I did answer the doorbell, so maybe I could have done it 17 or 18 minutes, but there's no way the prep could take only 5 minutes starting from scratch.)
     
  3. My family loves these muffins. They are not too sweet. I make them them with frozen sliced strawberries or frozen blueberries.
     
  4. Very good muffins. Especially as I added some turbinado sugar to the tops before baking. Thanks for the ice cream scoop suggestion.
     
  5. These are delightful muffins, leeannr! I used a combination of frozen blueberries and raspberries which proved to be an exceptional combination. I added an extra 1/4 cup of sugar to the mixture for a little added sweetness and used a jumbo muffin tin to make 6 beautiful muffins. Thank you for these Berry, Berry Good Muffins, leeannr!
     
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Tweaks

  1. Bitter, needs more sugar
     

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