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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Maria
I just made these yesterday morning and they were gone by the afternoon… my 2 year old ate AT LEAST two! They were sooooooooo yummy!
The only thing I modded was I halved the vanilla and replaced that with Lorann Buttery Sweet Dough bakery emulsion. OHMYGOODNESS it tasted like cake. Try it!
Barbara
Hi Maria – Thanks for commenting and letting me know how much you liked the muffins. I have heard good things about sweet dough bakery emulsion. I really need to try it soon.
Gigi
These are delicious muffins, the best I have ever made. The only modifications made were to use brown sugar, buttermilk and adding a little lemon zest to the batter. I did put the streusel topping in the middle and on top, more yumminess!!!!
Barbara
Sound like yummy changes. I was thinking lemon or orange zest would be a great addition. More streusel sounds fabulous too. So glad you loved them. Thanks for letting me know.
Chris S
Just a quick follow-up. The mini muffins came out absolutely beautifully. One batch made three dozen minis. I used the medium Pampered Chef scoop (about 2 Tablespoons) and it was just right for nice big domes on the muffins. Mine took just about 20 minutes to bake. Thanks again for the recipe!
Barbara
Thanks for the followup! It’s so nice of you to share the size and cook times for your mini muffins. I’ll have to check out the Pampered Chef scoops. My little scoop just broke.
Chris S
Just made a batch of these, and I have to say a huge thank you for giving me my new favorite blueberry muffin recipe! I’m going to make a bunch of mini size ones for this week’s staff breakfast at my daughter’s school. I predict that they’ll be a big hit there.
Barbara
So glad you loved them as much as we did. I’m sure your mini’s will be a big hit. So fun to eat mini ones
April
I made these yesterday and they are delicious! I too love streusel topping so I increased the topping by mixing up 1/2c sugar, 1/4c flour and 1/4c butter. The muffins turned out perfectly! I also dusted my blueberries with flour so they wouldn’t sink to the bottom of my muffins and I sprinkled a little sparkling sugar on top of the streusel for an extra touch. Great recipe, thanks for posting!
Barbara
Extra streusel is always a good thing in my book. Thanks so much for letting me know you made them and liked them as much as we did!
Linda
The recipe looks delicious. We just picked 2 gallons of organic blueberries!!! In the picture it looks like the blueberries where tossed in sugar. Do you suggest doing this?
Barbara
Hi Linda – how great to have 2 gallons of blueberries to bake with! Good eye – I tossed the blueberries in a little flour in the picture. I often do that with berries or chocolate chips in recipes because it helps keep them from sinking to the bottom. But the batter in this recipe was so thick it wasn’t necessary so I didn’t include it in the recipe.
Thanks for the great question.
Stephanie
Hi Barbara! Quick question…I was comparing this recipe to the one on Our Best Bites. I saw you commented…did you make their version? Any thoughts on comparison? I like their additon of buttermilk, but yours look sooo good. I will have to make both!
Barbara
I love Best Bites. They’ve got great recipes. I’m sure I intended to make them, but don’t remember actually making them. Probably because I don’t usually have buttermilk on hand.
I took another look at their recipe and thought it was interesting that their recipe used oil and mine butter, but their streusel topping used butter and mine oil.
It would be fun to make the both. Let me know what you think if you do them them both. Thanks!
Susie
I can’t wait to try these – they look simply amazing.
Stephanie
I tried these muffins on Thursday night. They are very light and not heavy like other recipes that I have tried. They are really good.
Barbara
Thanks for taking the time to let me know you made them. So glad you liked them!
christine
I made these last night and they are just what I’ve been looking for. Delicious!
Barbara
Thanks Christine! They really are a great muffin.
megan {a dash of megnut}
yayyy! i have all of these ingredients on hand! i know whats for breakfast tomorrow!!! 🙂
Rice Kernel
These look like they emerged from a bakery! I’m hard-pressed to deny blueberries and a crumb topping. Can’t imagine I’ve never tried my hand at it – but I think it’s about time. Thank you for the inspiration!
Blond Duck
I hope you had a great Memorial Day!
Erin@TheFoodMentalist
These look divine! I cant wait to make them. The crumble top looks delicious!
Aarthi
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Treat and Trick
Gorgeous and delicious! Love the topping too…
Lisa
This is indeed one of the most beautiful and what I would call the ‘epitome’ of what a blueberry muffin should be. I’m so excited to tuck this recipe away for Father’s Day, Sunday brunches, and I guess whenever the mood strikes. Now if I could only find the ultimate corn muffin! Gorgeous photos!
Shumaila
I love streusel topping on my muffins. Would love to have a dig at these!:)
Kristen
A crumb topping on a blueberry muffin definitely makes it “world’s best!” Love these.
Blond Duck
You had me at strusel.