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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Memoria
Estoy de acuerdo contigo. El mise en place es muy importante y creo que es una buena idea de hacer el streusel primero por las razones que ya mencionaste. Estos muffins se ven perfectos. Espero probrar esta receta muy pronto. Gracias.
Kathleen
These muffins look and sound amazing. I’m with you on the topping! Great addition 😉
ristoranti roma
Very nice Blueberry Streusel Muffins
kim sisto robinson
” Muffins without a streusel topping are kind of like cupcakes without frosting.” I know what you mean, Sister.
These look Out of This World! 🙂
Sue
Love blueberry muffins, especially topped with streusel:) Have a wonderful weekend, Barbara.
Nic
I just did blueberry muffins too! Maybe we should get together for a taste test, because yours look pretty good as well! 😉
Rosa
They look so fantastic and perfect! A delight.
Cheers,
Rosa
Carol
Ohhhhhhhh those photos have me almost drooling! This recipe is similar to the Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins I’ve made for years……they’re SO good……like mini blueberry coffee cakes. What a great idea adding some streusel to the top………..MMMMMMM-I can’t wait to try them.
Barbara
I hadn’t heard of the Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins. Definitely a very similar recipe. I can see why you’ve been making them for years!
Kim
Those muffins do look a notch above the rest. I’m definitely going to keep this recipe handy for the next time I score some blueberries.
P.S. Have you tried those new Reynolds foil muffin/cupcake liners? They’re pretty, very sturdy, and hold up very well. I love them!
Catalina
Streusel is the most favourite part on our coffee cakes/muffins at home, too 😀 Your muffins look so tasty that I’m almost crying, because I don’t have any blueberries on hand. Ijust gotta hope I will asap.
Lyndsey
Yummy! I love struels muffins…it’s like the topping on the cake. ..err…or muffin 😀
Kathy - Cooking On the Side
Wow, those truly are gorgeous, Barbara!
Alison @ Ingredients, Inc
These look fabulous. They are going on my weekend menu. Are you going to Evo? If so, i will see you in July
Becky
Oh Barbara, what a nice post!! Thank you for sharing this recipe. It really is THAT GOOD!! And I bet the streusel top makes them even more scrumptious!! I purchased the muffin liners at Sur la Tab. They have lots of fun liners there, but those are my favorites. Thanks again for passing along Communal’s recipe! We should go eat there together sometime.
bake in paris
Yummy yummy, blueberry and streusel…. what a blast!
Kalynskitchen
Not only do they look delicious, they’re also very pretty!
nancy@skinnykitchen.com
These muffins look scrumptious! If you ever what to make a skinny recipe, you might like the one I posted recently, http://www.skinnykitchen.com/recipes/fabulous-skinny-lemon-blueberry-coffee-cake-muffins/.
Robin
Wow! These look so good. We love blueberries and muffins, so I’m sure it would be a hit at our house.
April
Yum! These look wonderful!!
Rachel @ Baked by Rachel
Oh these look fantastic! Saving this to try sometime 🙂