#MuffinMonday ~ Blackberry Muffins
#MuffinMonday is a group of muffin loving bakers who get together once a month to bake muffins to brighten their (and your!) Mondays. You can see all our of lovely muffins by following our Pinterest boardL http://www.pinterest.com/flpl/muffin-monday/. Our hostess is the lovely Stacy of Food Lust People Love.
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Today I am sharing a tender, cake like muffin stuffed with goey bits of delicious blackberries! These remind me of the muffins you might get at a bakery. We had a bag of blackberries left over in the freezer from the pies we made at Thanksgiving and I thought a muffin would be a wonderful way to use a few of them. I love the sweetness of the muffin batter paired against the bite of the berry flavor. I left the sugar topping off of this batch, but it would add a lovely crunch for some texture variation!
See what everyone has shared today!
- Bacon Cheddar Corn Muffins from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Bacon Scallion Corn Muffins from Karen's Kitchen Stories
- Blackberry Muffins from Making Miracles
- Cranberry Pistachio Muffins from Food Lust People Love
- Mini Donut Muffins from Passion Kneaded
Blackberry Muffins from Taste of Home
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cups plus 1 tablespoon sugar, divided
2 large eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
2 cups fresh or frozen blackberries
Directions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
- Cream butter with 1 1/4 cups sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer until creamy. Add in eggs one at a time, scraping sides down as needed until fully incorporated.
- In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Alternating with the milk, add the dry ingredients to the creamed butter and sugar mixture on low speed just until well combined.
- Mix in the blackberries gently by hand.
- Divide muffin batter between cupcake wells of prepared muffin tin. Sprinkle the batter with the reserved sugar.
- Bake in preheated oven 20-25 minutes until lightly browned on top and cooked through (check with a toothpick).
Muffins are a great way to use up frozen fruit. Sometimes I buy it just to make muffins, in fact. Yours turned out beautiful, Rebekah!
ReplyDeleteThese sound delicious. A great way to start off the day. Happy New Year Rebekah.
ReplyDeleteThese sound delicious and easy peasy to make! I love using frozen fruit in baking. I love the burst of purple on the side of the muffin in that shot.
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