THE BEST Blueberry Crumble Muffins
Blueberry crumble muffins bring the bakery to your kitchen. You can whip up this simple recipe first thing on a weekend morning and enjoy them before the coffee gets cold.
Blueberry crumble muffins are the elevated version of the most classic of all muffins, the blueberry muffin, and this recipe makes the LIGHTEST and FLUFFIEST muffins you’ve ever had! I wish there was a way that I could say I guarantee it! The recipe is practically life-changing!
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I don’t need to tell you how good blueberries are for you to convince you to make these muffins. In fact, this is the muffin recipe I use for any fruit—it’s that good.
It all started with this plum muffin recipe which I’ve adapted to conform essentially any fruit. I love rhubarb muffins, this peach muffin recipe, and raspberry muffins, etc. Just look at that crumb!
If you have any suggestions on which fruit I haven’t tried, yet, please let me know in the comments!
Blueberry crumble muffins are bound to impress anyone who tries them (sometimes even those who think they don’t like blueberries!).
Can I Freeze Blueberry Crumble Muffins?
These blueberry crumble muffins freeze perfectly! Keep them as airtight as possible, and defrost them overnight. Warm them in the oven or air fryer for a couple of minutes for that “just baked” texture!
You will not be disappointed with this recipe whether you make it with plain crumble topping,
or the nut and brown sugar topping.
Blueberry Crumble Muffins Recipe
Adapted from a Waitrose recipe. Makes 8 large muffins or 12 small muffins
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Ingredients
- flour
- baking powder
- baking soda
- sugar
- eggs
- olive oil
- yogurt
- blueberries (fresh or frozen, wild or conventional/organic)
Special equipment: muffin pans (I prefer making 8 jumbo muffins, or 6 jumbo and a mini loaf) or you can make 12 regular muffins.
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350ºF (175ºC)
Make the Blueberry Crumble Topping
Combine the flour and butter (chopped, in pieces) with two knives or your fingertips until it resembles coarse crumbs.
Gently mix in the sugar.
To add nuts to the crumble mixture, simply stir in chopped nuts of your choosing along with a tablespoonful of brown sugar.
Make the Blueberry Crumble Muffin Mixture
Sift flour, baking powder, and baking soda into a large bowl.
Stir in the sugar (people often miss this step)
In a separate bowl or measuring jug, whisk together the eggs, olive oil, and yogurt until smooth.
Wash the blueberries and dry. If using frozen berries, toss them in a teaspoonful of flour to help them not to fall whilst baking. Wild blueberries work in this recipe, too.
Pour the yogurt mixture into the dry ingredients.
Slowly stir together in the large bowl until just combined. DO NOT OVER STIR as it will make the muffins too dense.
Next, add the blueberries.
Gently fold in the blueberries with just a few turns. (Keep a few aside for putting on top of the muffins, if you like.)
Fill the muffin cases.
Or just tear parchment paper to line each cup as I do.
Sprinkle the crumble on top.
Bake the Blueberry Crumble Muffins
Bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown. It will take longer if the fruit is frozen.
You will be delighted with these beauties! Just take them out of the tray and keep in a cloth-lined basket to serve or allow to cool on a rack. These are definitely best eaten the same day they are made.
NOTE: you can bake the entire mixture in a loaf pan, too! The only thing is that it will take about 45 minutes or possibly longer to bake.
Love these blueberry crumble muffins? Try my classic blueberry crumble recipe, next!
Blueberry Crumble Muffins
Ingredients
Blueberry Crumble Topping
- 2 Tbsp butter unsalted
- ⅓ c flour
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar (optional)
- 1 Tbsp nuts chopped (optional)
Blueberry Crumble Muffin Batter
- 2 cups flour (good quality, avoid bleached, bromated and enriched if possible)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup light olive oil
- 1 cup yogurt (if using Greek yogurt, add 1 Tbsp milk or buttermilk)
- 2 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen wild/conventional/organic)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF/ 175℃.
Make the Blueberry Crumble Topping
- Combine the flour and butter with two knives or your fingertips until it resembles coarse crumbs.
- Stir in the sugar. Set aside.
Make the Blueberry Crumble Muffin Batter
- Sift flour, baking powder, and baking soda into a large bowl.
- Stir in the sugar.
- In a separate bowl or measuring jug, whisk together the eggs, olive oil, and yogurt until smooth.
- Wash the blueberries and dry. If using frozen berries, toss them in a teaspoonful of flour to help them not to fall whilst baking.
- Pour the yogurt mixture into the dry ingredients.
- Slowly stir together in the large bowl until just combined. DO NOT OVER STIR as it will make the muffins too dense.
- Gently add the blueberries with just a few turns. (Keep a few aside for putting on top of the muffins, if you like.) Fill the muffin cases. Sprinkle with the crumble topping.
- Bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Notes
- Use almost any fruit to like in these muffins. All the fruits I’ve tried have turned out brilliantly: peach, rhubarb, cranberry/orange (using fresh and dried cranberries), and of course, plums.
- Add cinnamon and/or your choice of nuts or brown sugar to the crumble topping to customize it to your liking.
- You can bake the entire mixture in a loaf pan, too! The only thing is that it will take about 45 minutes or possibly longer to bake.
Nutrition
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I love blueberries and can’t wait to bake these muffins. The fact that you use olive oil and yogurt is a bonus!
I’m a sucker for a crumble muffin.. add blueberries and it’s a double win! I have all the ingredients and I am in the midst of this winter storm so will give these a try!
I like to use a “kitchen scale” when baking especially on humid days to make sure the amount flour is correct. Using metric in baking and fermentation really helps my efforts succeed!
I think apples would be good in this recipe too!
Yes, I have made so many different versions of this muffin and they are all delicious! Scales are so useful, and so underused and underappreciated in the US! Good luck, Joan!
Excellent recipe! even for a rather hit & miss baker 🤔. Also works well with GF flour.
Thanks.
Wonderful, thank you, Frances!
Blueberry muffins are always a big hit in this house — I will definitely be making thiese for our next guests. They look truly amazing. Thanks, Christina! Oh, by the way, in this weeks poll, I chose winter, but that is so misleading in Tucson, as the markets include tomatoes, and often early apricots. And I lvoe wintry foods, which I also make in the summer with the AC on!
I actually ended up having blueberries that I didn’t need, so I made these this morning. They are fantastic! I had to give most of them away to neighbors otherwise I would’ve eaten them all myself.
My husband and I enjoyed these muffins yesterday. Lite and low in sugar. I look forward to making it with peaches next time.
Aren’t they wonderful, Lorri! Yes, peaches are great, too! THank you!
Hubby is going to love these. He can’t get enough blueberries. Me, not so much, just don’t enjoy them, but even before I read the recipe I was thinking of peaches, raspberries, and the leftover fresh cranberries I froze after I was done with the holiday baking. Yum!! headphones
I’m not a blueberry fan either, but I LOVE them in these muffins! Give it a try with any fruit, Catie, I’m sure you’ll be a fan!
Can I use butter instead of oil? Same amount? Should I it be melted? I don’t usually like baked goods with oil. Thanks
Hi Carol, I haven’t ever done so, but I’m sure it would be fine, yes melted. However, I can almost guarantee 99.99% that you’d love these made with oil (as long as it’s not a strong extra virgin oil.) EVERYONE loves them!
You don’t give the amounts for the crumble topping! No way to make it!!
Hi Donna, sorry for the oversight, it’s fixed, just need to ask :)