Lemon Blueberry Muffins The Most Fluffy and Golden Top Classic Muffin You Will Bake

Lemon Blueberry Muffins are the recipe that Maria makes every weekend when the blueberries are at their most plump and fragrant and she wants to fill the kitchen with the most completely extraordinary combination of warm buttery baking fragrance and bright citrus from the very first moment the batter goes into the oven.

She creams the softened butter with the sugar and fresh lemon zest for the full two to three minutes until the mixture is genuinely pale and fluffy and fragrant, adds the eggs one at a time, stirs in the sour cream and vanilla and fresh lemon juice, folds the flour through in alternating additions with the sour cream, and finally folds in the plump blueberries with the most gentle hand possible to keep every berry whole. The muffins bake at 375°F for the most perfectly domed and deeply golden tops that make every person who walks into the kitchen stop and look before the muffins are even out of the oven.

Lemon Blueberry Muffins are the most soft and fluffy golden-topped bakery-style muffins made with fresh lemon zest and juice for bright citrus flavor, sour cream for the most moist and tender crumb, plump fresh blueberries, and a sweet lemon glaze drizzled over the top for the most completely irresistible and beautiful lemon blueberry muffin. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful muffin recipes and easy breakfast baking favorites from our kitchen every single week.

Why You Will Love This Lemon Blueberry Muffins Recipe

This Lemon Blueberry Muffins recipe is the bakery-style muffin that delivers the most completely perfect golden domed top, the most tender and moist crumb, and the most genuine and bright lemon flavor from a recipe that is so completely reliable and so beautifully developed that it has been perfected through multiple rounds of testing to produce the most consistently extraordinary result every time.

The sour cream is the ingredient that makes these muffins so extraordinarily moist and so lasting in their tender texture. Sour cream contains both the fat that keeps the crumb soft and the mild acidity that activates the baking soda for the most dramatic and beautiful rise. The original buttermilk-and-sour-cream version has been updated to sour cream only because sour cream alone produces an equally moist and equally tender result without the inconvenience of purchasing buttermilk. Our Lemon Blueberry Cookies make a beautifully vibrant and equally lemon-blueberry companion for a complete and wonderful everyday lemon blueberry baking collection.

Ingredients Needed for This Lemon Blueberry Muffins Recipe

For the Muffins:

• 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• ½ tsp Baking Soda
• ¼ tsp Salt
• ½ cup Unsalted Butter, softened to room temperature
• ¾ cup Granulated Sugar
• 2 to 3 tbsp Fresh Lemon Zest (about 1 lemon)
• 2 large Eggs, room temperature
• 1½ tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
• 2 to 3 tbsp Fresh Lemon Juice (about 1 lemon)
• ⅔ cup Full-Fat Sour Cream, room temperature
• 1½ cups Fresh or Frozen Blueberries
• 2 tsp All-Purpose Flour (for tossing frozen berries only)

For the Lemon Glaze:

• 1 tbsp Fresh Lemon Juice
• 1 to 1½ cups Icing Sugar (Powdered Sugar)

How to Make This Lemon Blueberry Muffins Recipe

Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line a 12-cavity muffin pan with paper liners.

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt until evenly combined. Set aside.

In a separate large bowl, beat together the room-temperature softened butter, granulated sugar, and fresh lemon zest with an electric mixer for approximately 2 to 3 minutes until the mixture is genuinely fluffy and pale. The lemon zest beaten into the fat and sugar releases its volatile aromatic oils into the mixture and produces a more intensely fragrant and deeply lemon-flavored muffin than zest added at any other stage.

Add the room-temperature eggs to the butter mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla extract and fresh lemon juice until combined.

With the mixer on low speed, beat in approximately half of the sour cream. Then mix in approximately half of the flour mixture. Beat in the remaining sour cream. Turn the mixer off and fold in the remaining flour using a rubber spatula or wooden spoon, cara mia. This alternating method prevents overmixing the batter after the flour is incorporated, which is the most common cause of tough and dense muffins.

If using frozen blueberries, toss them in a separate bowl with 2 teaspoons of flour before folding into the batter. The flour coating helps prevent the blueberry juice from bleeding through the entire batter and turning it blue-grey. Do not thaw frozen blueberries before using. Gently fold the blueberries into the muffin batter using a rubber spatula.

Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pan, filling each cup all the way to the top. A full cup of batter is what produces the most dramatically domed and beautiful bakery-style muffin top.

Bake at 375°F for 17 to 20 minutes until the tops are deep golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or with only blueberry juice rather than raw batter. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

For the lemon glaze, whisk together the lemon juice and icing sugar until completely smooth. Drizzle generously over the completely cooled muffins.

How to Serve This Lemon Blueberry Muffins Recipe

Serve at room temperature with a cup of strong hot coffee or fragrant tea for the most completely perfect breakfast or afternoon treat experience. The combination of the sweet lemon glaze drizzle, the fragrant lemon crumb, and the bursts of juicy blueberry in every bite is genuinely one of the most extraordinary and deeply satisfying morning baking experiences imaginable.

For a beautiful brunch presentation, arrange on a tiered stand or a beautiful white plate alongside fresh blueberries and lemon slices for the most charming and completely appetizing display. Our Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes make a beautifully frosted and equally lemon-blueberry companion for a complete and wonderful lemon blueberry celebration spread.

How to Store This Lemon Blueberry Muffins Recipe

These muffins are genuinely at their very best the day they are baked while the golden top is still at its most crisp and the crumb at its most fresh and tender. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. Freeze in an airtight container for up to 2 months and thaw in the refrigerator before bringing to room temperature for serving.

Tips to Make This Lemon Blueberry Muffins Recipe

Fill each muffin cup all the way to the top with batter for the most dramatic and beautiful bakery-style domed top. A half-full or three-quarters-full muffin cup produces a flat or barely domed top. The full cup of batter is what forces the muffin top to puff dramatically above the rim of the pan during baking for the most beautiful result.

Measure the flour correctly using the spoon and level method rather than scooping directly from the bag. Packed flour produces dry and crumbly muffins. Spoon the flour into the measuring cup with a separate spoon and level with a knife for the most accurate and perfectly textured result.

Helpful Notes for This Lemon Blueberry Muffins Recipe

Baking at 375°F rather than 350°F is the temperature specification that produces the most dramatically golden and well-risen muffin tops. At 350°F the muffins do not rise as dramatically and the tops do not achieve the same golden and beautiful color. At 400°F the tops can become too dark before the interior has finished baking. 375°F is the most ideal temperature for the most perfect result.

Never use bottled lemon juice in this recipe in place of fresh. Bottled lemon juice has a flat and slightly fermented flavor that produces muffins that taste too tart and too artificial. Only freshly squeezed lemon juice and freshly grated lemon zest produce the most bright and completely genuine lemon flavor.

Variation of This Lemon Blueberry Muffins Recipe

Maria made a version adding a tablespoon of poppy seeds to the flour mixture for a lemon poppy seed blueberry muffin with the most beautiful speckled interior and a pleasantly nutty crunch in every bite. Teresa tried a strawberry lemon version using diced fresh strawberries in place of the blueberries for a vibrant pink-flecked muffin with the most beautifully fresh strawberry-lemon flavor.

For a cream cheese swirl version, drop small teaspoon-sized dollops of softened sweetened cream cheese across the top of each filled muffin cup before baking and press very gently into the surface for the most creamy and indulgent cream cheese blueberry lemon muffin that is completely extraordinary. Our Vegan Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes make a beautifully plant-based and equally lemon-blueberry companion for a complete and vibrant everyday baking spread.

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Conclusion

These Lemon Blueberry Muffins are the most completely extraordinary and deeply satisfying bakery-style morning bake that makes every kitchen smell like the most warm and bright and completely beautiful combination of fresh citrus and warm butter and sweet blueberry and makes every person who receives one feel genuinely nourished and completely cared for through the most perfect and deeply delicious lemon blueberry morning treat imaginable. We hope they bring the same golden and completely joyful morning and the same deeply satisfied kitchen to your home that they have always brought to ours. Make them, share them, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.

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