These really are the Best Blueberry Streusel Muffins! They’re big, beautiful, and tender muffins, loaded with blueberries and crowned with a sweet crunchy streusel topping.
Do you have a recipe you consider the best? My good friend Becky, Vintage Mixer, posted several of her best recipes lately, and I couldn’t resist baking “the best blueberry muffins that you’ll ever sink your teeth into.”
This recipe was given to her by the chef at Communal, and it is a big, beautiful muffin that rises over the top of the muffins cups. It’s loaded with 2 cups of blueberries, which don’t sink to the bottom of the muffin because of the thick, coffee-cake-like batter.
Our family loves a streusel topping on muffins so I added an easy to make sweet/sandy streusel topping. Muffins without a streusel topping are kind of like cupcakes without frosting. Delicious without it, but irresistible with it.
Making The Best Blueberry Streusel Muffins
I use a scoop to perfectly portion out the muffins, and I love using If You Care Baking Cups. They’re the best muffin / cupcake papers. The muffin pulls away so easily from the paper – no wasted muffin. You can also bake them without the muffin papers, but clean up is so much easier if you use papers.
Making the streusel topping with oil gives it a great sandy texture, but if you prefer, you can substitute butter for the oil.
Baking Tip:
When baking something that comes together as quickly as muffins, it’s especially important to have all your ingredients gathered together and ready to go (mis en place). If you have everything assembled, from scratch muffins don’t take much more time than muffins from a box.
This recipe uses ½ cup (1 stick) of room temperature butter. To quickly warm up your butter, cut it into slices and let it sit in the bowl while you assemble all your ingredients.
I like to make the streusel topping first so that it’s ready to sprinkle on and I don’t get lazy and leave it off.
Update: These really are the best muffins! It’s become one of my most popular recipes. If you haven’t made them yet, definitely give them a try.
If you have a recipe you consider THE BEST, I’d love to hear about it!
Best Blueberry Streusel Muffins
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup whole milk
- 2 cups blueberries fresh or frozen
Streusel Topping
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º. Lightly grease a muffin tin with cooking spray or vegetable oil, or line with paper muffin liners.
- Prepare streusel topping and set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla and milk. Add flour mixture and stir until just combined. Stir in blueberries.
- Divide batter evenly into 12 muffin cups. Sprinkle muffins with streusel topping.
- Bake at 350º for 20 to 25 min, until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean. When muffins are done, cool for a few minutes in the muffin pan before removing to cool on a wire rack.
- Streusel ToppingIn a small bowl, whisk together sugar and flour. Add oil and mix until mixture has a sandy texture.
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Other best muffin recipes:
How to Make the Best Muffins/One-Bowl Oatmeal Muffins, Simple Bites
Whole Wheat Apple Muffins, Smitten Kitchen
Banana Bread Muffins, Barbara Bakes
Chunky Monkey Banana Muffins, Barbara Bakes
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marla {family fresh cooking}
Your streusel muffins look way beyond amazing! If you say they are the best then I do believe 🙂
Ashley@Bakerbynature
These muffins just stole my heart…
I am constantly looking for new muffins to try, and these are at the top of the list now.
Bizzy
I love how you describe these muffins. I want to try them. I love that the blueberries don’t sink.
I invite you to link this to Bake with Bizzy. They can inspire me each time, I check my blog.
http://bizzybakesb.blogspot.com/2011/05/bake-with-bizzy-2-almond-blueberry.html
Kathy
I made these for dessert tonight. First time I’ve made muffins from scratch! They were delicious!!!
teresa
these are just beautiful!
Abby
I have been bookmarking blueberry recipes like crazy! I think I need to get in the kitchen and make these!
Barbara
Just as soon as I claim: this is my favorite recipe, ever! something comes along to take its place! My blueberry muffins are good, but I am crazy about streusel topping. I’ve got some lovely blueberries in the fridge right now too!
Lorraine Not Quite Nigella
Mum, you made these just for me, I can tell! 😛 I love streusel anything, just give me streusel on it’s own too! Xxx
Betty @ scrambled henfruit
These are gorgeous! Luckily, I just bought three pints of beautiful blueberries- I hope I get these made for breakfast tomorrow. 🙂
Laney
Man these look good. If I buy the ingredients, will you come cook it for my family?? I’m definitely going to give this a shot, but pretty sure they won’t look as good as your pics. 🙂
Faith
I love a good blueberry muffin and the streusel topping really makes these muffins special!
Maryse
I’m going to make those this weekend! They look wonderful and I’ve got fresh blueberries coming! Thank you!
Kathy
Yum!!!! Those look delicious!!!
Angie's Recipes
Anything with streusel must have tasted wonderfully! Those look fantastic.
tiffany ~food finery
those are BEAUTIFUL muffins! wow! i feel like you should make them again and then we should eat them together! 😉 love you!
Yuri
These look amazing!
Lori @ RecipeGirl
It’s definitely a beautiful muffin. I love the rise on it!
Lisa @ Sweet as Sugar Cookies
Yum, my family goes crazy for blueberry muffins and the streusel topping is always a must. Those look fantastically good.
Maris (In Good Taste)
I love the struesel topping
Nicole@HeatOvenTo350
Wow. I’m tempted to agree. Those do look like the best blueberry streusel muffins I’ve ever seen!