This Blueberry Muffin Recipe has a crunchy muffin top that glistens and adds incredible texture. Butter and oil make these easy blueberry muffins an incredibly moist breakfast or snack. Soft bakery style blueberry muffins – without the effort!
The girls and I enjoy baking together. We tend to spend Saturdays and Sunday mornings making breakfast. We frequently make muffins because they’re so easy and everyone in the family enjoys them. They make a delicious breakfast, are the prettiest addition to brunch and also a great snack!
A single batch can be enjoyed for breakfast, brunch or snack. They’re also perfect to share with family and friends for Easter or Mother’s Day brunch.
This easy Blueberry Muffin recipe takes just 10 minutes hands on time and they take just 18 to bake. Enjoy fresh, warm muffins in less than 30 minutes.
It’s one of my favorite sweet bread recipes! These muffins are foolproof and come out perfect every time.
You can serve them alone or with a little bit of butter or even better, a little sugar butter!
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Secrets to Making the Best Blueberry Muffins
Cornstarch softens the proteins in flour making the muffins soft, too. I use both oil and butter in this muffin recipe because the vegetable oil adds fluffiness while the butter adds flavor. Of course sugar on top never hurts, either. The granulated sugar adds a little crunch that glistens and makes these muffins bakery beautiful!
Buttermilk also helps make muffins moist and tender, breaking down the gluten. It also prevents the muffin from acquiring the blue tinge from the blueberries, making them so pretty!
If you don’t have buttermilk, don’t fret. You can make it in just a second with just 2 ingredients. Learn how to make buttermilk here!
How to Make Easy Blueberry Muffins from Scratch
It’s so easy! Skip the mix! Chances are, you have all the ingredients you need in your kitchen. Blueberry Muffins are made with staple ingredients. Butter, oil, sugar, eggs, vanilla and buttermilk blended with flour, corn starch, baking powder and salt with fresh blueberries!
If you prefer, use frozen blueberries. Swirl them into the batter direct from the freezer to avoid purple muffins.
This Blueberry Muffin Recipe couldn’t be simpler.
- Preheat oven.
- Combine wet ingredients in a mixing bowl and dry ingredients in a separate mixing bowl.
- Gradually fold dry ingredients into wet and swirl in blueberries.
- Line muffin tins with paper liners or use cooking spray if you prefer. Fill the muffin cups with muffin batter using a measuring cup to easily fill. Sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake to perfection. A toothpick inserted will ensure they are cooked through, but 18 minutes is generally perfect in my oven.
- You can even make these into miniature muffins!
These muffins are amazing as is, especially with the crunchy muffin tops, but you can also drizzle, dip or drench them in this lemon glaze!
PS Find my favorite muffin pan in the shop or a less expensive option right here!
How to Store Muffins
You can enjoy these muffins for days, weeks and months to come! They keep incredibly well using the tips below.
- allow them to cool in the tin for a few minutes and transfer to a wire rack
- enjoy at room temperature
- store in an airtight container or ziplock bag on a paper towel to absorb any excess moisture
- to freeze, wrap muffins in seran wrap and place them in a freezer bag to store up to 3 months
- to thaw, bring to room temperature (about 3-4 hours)
- to warm, preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake 3 minutes
What Readers Are Saying
- Ella says: “I think I’ll love this one because of the crunchy muffin. I just love the fact that it doesn’t take a long time to prepare and the directions are so easy to follow.”
- Samantha on Pinterest says: “This is my new go-to recipe for blueberry muffins. A family fave!”
- Robert asks: “How long do I cook these as a mini muffin?” Robert, I would set your time at 12 minutes and check from there. Often it depends on how high the batter fills the cups! Enjoy!
For more amazing Quick Breads, check out my guide – it’s filled with breads and muffins you can make with pantry staples.
More Muffin Recipes You’ll Love
- Brown Butter Muffin Recipe
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Muffins
- Pumpkin Muffin Recipe
- Strawberry Muffins
- Banana Muffins
- Classic Muffin Recipe
- Cinnamon Muffins
- Apple Cobbler Muffins
I’d love to hear what you think! If you try this recipe or put your own twist on it, let me know in the comments below! We can’t get enough of this no fuss recipe. Sometimes simple is simply the best!
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Blueberry Muffin Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons butter melted, salted or unsalted
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg white
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1¾ cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons corn starch
- ½ teaspoons salt
- 1 cup blueberries
- sugar to dust
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease or line muffin tin.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, oil and sugar.
- Add the eggs, vanilla and buttermilk until combined on low or by hand.
- In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, corn starch and salt.
- Gradually fold dry ingredients into wet mixture, but do not overmix.
- Fold in blueberries.
- Fill 3/4 full and sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake 18 minutes or until they pass the toothpick test.
I made this yesterday. They’re so good! I used soy milk because that’s all I have. And used 2 eggs instead of 1 whole + 1 white (because I don’t want to discard the yellow 😉 ). They came out perfect. Thanks for the recipe.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your variation!
I’ve been wanting to try one of your recipes during this time of a stay at home order and today was the day! I’m so glad I did. These blueberry muffins were perfect and guess what? I didn’t have buttermilk and decided to try plain greek yogurt in its place and it was DELISH! I did have to cook them about 5 min longer….also as I prepared to fold in the blueberries the batter felt too thick so I added a splash of milk. Perfect. I also stole the topping from your banana muffins and added that here for my sweet tooth husband. So yummmmy!
Thank you SO much for sharing! I actually just shared a free printable Baking Substitutions Guide – hope you enjoy it! Stay well!
These were amazing! I even substituted sucanat (unrefined sugar) for the regular sugar, and added about 2 tablespoons of maple syrup, and they turned out perfectly! Great recipe. Thank you!
Thanks for the tip, Adele!
Very easy and delicious muffins. Not too sweet, perfectly moist.
Made a double recipe the first time, second time I used chocolate chips in place of blueberry. Next time I’ll try cherries.
Thanks for sharing, Barb! Glad you enjoyed them. Cherries sound delish!
These look delicious!
Such a classic! I love to make blueberry muffins once spring arrives!
My kids would love to bake these; they look like perfect bites of heaven!
Homemade muffins are the best! I used mixed berries for mine!
Love to have a batch of these for our weekend breakfast!
Blueberry muffins are my favorite!! I can’t wait to try this recipe!!
This looks delicious – I want to attempt this Blueberry recipe. I think I’ll love this one because of the crunchy muffin. I just love the fact that it doesn’t take a long time to prepare and the directions are so easy to follow up.
And perhaps, when I’m done. I’ll come back here to give feedback.
Thanks a bunch Julie for sharing awesome recipe with us.