Blueberry Muffins with Streusel Topping are the best way to start out your day. Sour cream adds moisture to this cake-like muffin filled with fresh or frozen blueberries.
Nothing says breakfast or brunch like blueberry muffins. They are a staple at Starbucks or your local bakery because everyone loves Blueberry Muffins. Add a buttery streusel topping and the standard blueberry muffin goes from good to GREAT. Blueberry Muffins with Streusel Topping stay moist from both the blueberries and the addition of sour cream, this allows them to remain delicious for several days without drying out. I’ve found that most muffins are great right out of the oven or throughout the day, but after that they quickly dry out. This recipe for Blueberry Muffins with Streusel is more forgiving, but I’ve given you some tips later in the post to keep them from drying out.
How to make Blueberry Muffins with Streusel Topping
Step 1: Take out the butter, sour cream and eggs and let them all warm up to room temperature. This will give you a lighter and fluffier texture.
Step 2: Make the streusel topping by combing sugar, cinnamon, flour and COLD butter and combine with a fork.
Step 3: Cream the butters and sugar and SOUR CREAM and the dry ingredients. Then fold in the blueberries and fill the muffin tins. Everyone always asks if you can use frozen blueberries instead of fresh and the answer is almost always yes. Blueberries are one of those fruits that freeze so well that you can use them interchangeably. However, don’t thaw the blueberries first, if you do they the juice will seep out and make the batter purple. It will still taste the same, but no one wants grey muffins! I generally toss the frozen blueberries in a little flour to keep them from bleeding into your batter. Now you have a great excuse to go out and pick buckets of fresh blueberries, just freeze what you can’t eat and you’ll be set for a winter of blueberry muffins with streusel topping.
Step 4: Top the muffins with STREUSEL and bake first at 425º then reduce the temperature to 350º.
Why should you cook muffins in a HOT oven
To get a nice tall muffin with a pretty dome, it helps to start with a hot oven, 425º, and then after five minutes reduce it to 350º for the remaining 20 minutes. This will give you the pretty bakery look and also a light texture.
How do you make a STREUSEL topping
While this blueberry muffin itself is so moist and delicious, it’s the streusel topping that make them the BEST blueberry muffins! But what should go in your streusel. Some just have cinnamon and sugar, but to make it truly a streusel topping you need to add BUTTER. I prefer butter, brown sugar and cinnamon along with a handful of pecans, the nuts are optional. Add cold butter to your ingredients and combine them with a fork so you have small chunks of butter. If you love streusel as much as I do, you will also love Streusel Coffee Cake.
The biggest problem I have with muffins is how to keep them fresh for more than a day. All homemade muffins are wonderful right out of the oven, but later in the day or the next, they will become dry. These muffins will stay moist a bit longer due to the blueberries and sour cream, however, here are a few tips to keep them delicious for days to come, the best option is to eat them right away.
How to keep muffins fresh
- My first choice is to freeze them as soon as they are cool in an individual ziplock bag. Then place the bags in an airtight container in the freezer. When you want a muffin, take one out and let it thaw to room temperature. Don’t microwave, it will change the texture and you will have a rubbery muffin.
- If you just need them fresh the next day, let them cool and place in in air tight container in the refrigerator with a paper towel on the top and bottom. This will give you pretty fresh tasting muffins for an extra day without freezing.
- If all else fails and your muffins are starting to dry out, just toast them in the oven!
More Muffin Recipes!
Adapted from Sally’s Baking Addiction
Blueberry Muffins with Streusel Topping
Blueberry Muffins with Streusel Topping are the best way to start out your day. Sour cream adds moisture to this cake-like muffin filled with fresh or frozen blueberries.
Print Pin RateServings: 12
Calories: 360kcal
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup butter room temp
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs room temp
- ½ cup sour cream room temp
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 ½ cups blueberries fresh/frozen
STREUSEL
- ¾ cup flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 6 tablespoons butter cold and cut into 1 inch pieces
- ½ cup pecans optional, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425º. Spray muffin pans with nonstick spray or use cupcake liners.
- In a small bowl combine all streusel ingredients and combine with a fork until combined but with small chunks of butter still present. Place in the refrigerator while you make the muffins.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter, sugar and brown sugar until creamy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition until combined Next add sour cream and vanilla and beat until combined. Add the dry ingredients and beat on low just until combined. Fold in fresh blueberries. If using frozen blueberries, coat them with a little bit of flour before adding them. Do not thaw first.
- Divide the batter into the muffin tins using a spoon or large ice cream scoop, filling them to the top. Sprinkle streusel over the top pressing it into the batter.
- Bake for 5 minutes at 425º then reduce oven temperature to 350º without removing the muffins and bake an additional l20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for about 5 minutes then remove to a wire rack and eat warm or at room temperature.
Notes
If not eating right away, let cool and freeze. When ready to eat, remove from freezer and let warm to room temperature. You can use fresh or frozen blueberries, if frozen, don't that before adding.
Nutrition
Calories: 360kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 68mg | Sodium: 331mg | Potassium: 139mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 24g | Vitamin A: 529IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 61mg | Iron: 2mg
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