Sweet, fluffy, Strawberry Muffins packed full of fresh strawberry pieces. These muffins are made completely from scratch and are topped with a simple glaze.
Today’s recipe includes plenty of tips and tricks on how to get the softest, fluffiest, tastiest muffins and includes a brief how-to video showing how I make these strawberry muffins in my own kitchen.
We are in peak strawberry season here in Pennsylvania and I am taking full advantage of every minute of it. Whether you want to pick your own or just buy them from the grocery store, plump, juicy, sweet strawberries are most likely available wherever it is you do your shopping.
I’m taking full advantage of these berries and have a few strawberry recipes lined up to share with you (and don’t forget about my strawberry shortcake recipe that I shared last month!), but let’s get to today’s recipe. Today I’m sharing my simple recipe for strawberry muffins.
By now you may have caught on to the fact that many of my muffins start out with a very similar base. My banana muffins, chocolate chip muffins, and blueberry muffins are just a few that start out almost identically, but not without good reason!
All of those muffins, and now these strawberry muffins, start with a blend of butter and oil (rather than just one or the other) because after lots of testing and sampling I’ve found that this is the best way to make your muffins flavorful and soft and fluffy. At the risk of sounding like a broken record (because I know I talked about this in my chocolate and vanilla cake recipes, too) using all-butter tends to dry out cake-y baked goods while using all oil can make them soft and moist but at the loss of the butter flavor.
Using a blend of both has proven time and time again to be the best way to get the best flavor and texture when making muffins.
As with my other muffin recipes, these strawberry muffins also use buttermilk. If you don’t have this in your fridge already, you can follow my easy instructions for making a simple buttermilk substitute.
The technique for baking strawberry muffins is also the same as with my other recipes. We will start with the oven at a high temperature and then, without opening the oven door, we will drop the oven temperature and continue to bake our muffins on a lower temperature.
What this does is it allows our muffins to get a nice rise by baking on a high temperature first and then dropping the temperature so that the muffin interiors can finish baking without drying out.
I also made a short video in my kitchen of how I make these strawberry muffins. I know I mentioned this before but videos are a work in progress for me and I definitely struggled with the lighting in this one 🤦🏼♀️, unfortunately I didn’t realize how shadowy it was (especially on my face!!! I almost didn’t publish this video just because of that!) until I went to edit!
How to Make Strawberry Muffins
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Enjoy!
Strawberry Muffins
Ingredients
- 4 Tablespoons (57 g) unsalted butter melted and cooled at least 5 minutes
- ¼ cup (60 ml) canola oil may substitute vegetable or avocado oil
- 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
- 1 large egg + 1 egg white room temperature preferred
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup buttermilk* room temperature preferred -- please see note for buttermilk substitute
- 1 ¾ cup (220 g) all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons corn starch cornflour UK
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cup (175 g) hulled chopped strawberries
Glaze
- ¾ cup (95 g) powdered sugar
- 3-4 teaspoons milk
Instructions
- Combine butter and canola oil in a large bowl and stir until well-combined.4 Tablespoons (57 g) unsalted butter, ¼ cup (60 ml) canola oil may substitute vegetable or avocado oil
- Add sugar and stir again.1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
- Add egg, egg white, and vanilla extract. Stir very well, until all ingredients are thoroughly combined, and then add buttermilk and stir again.1 large egg + 1 egg white, 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract, ½ cup buttermilk*
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, corn starch, and salt.1 ¾ cup (220 g) all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 teaspoons corn starch, ½ teaspoon salt
- Fold the dry ingredients into the wet gently, taking care not to over-mix the batter. Once about half of the dry ingredients have been combined, add your chopped strawberries and continue to gently stir until ingredients are just combined.1 ½ cup (175 g) hulled
- Cover bowl with a dry towel and allow batter to sit 15 minutes**
- Preheat oven to 425F (215C) and line a 12-count muffin tin with paper liners.
- Once oven has preheated, portion batter into prepared tin, filling each liner all the way to the top with batter (without overflowing).
- Bake on 425F (215C) for 8 minutes and then reduce the oven temperature to 350 (175C) (do not open the oven door or remove the muffins, just leave them in and reduce the temperature and bake another 12 minutes, or until tops are just beginning to turn golden brown.
- Allow to cool, and, if desired, top with glaze.
Glaze
- Combine powdered sugar and 3 teaspoons of milk in a small bowl and whisk until smooth. If batter is too stiff to drizzle, add additional milk, one teaspoon at a time, until desired consistency is achieved (if you make the glaze too thin, just add more sugar).¾ cup (95 g) powdered sugar, 3-4 teaspoons milk
- Drizzle over cooled muffins and allow the glaze to set before enjoying.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered an estimate only. Actual nutritional content will vary based upon brands used, measuring methods, cooking method, portion sizes, and more.
Julie Swearingen
I am about to try this recipe for the first time, but I have used MANY of your other recipes, so I’m looking forward to trying this one! Can I use cake flour instead of all purpose flour? Thank you!
Sam
Hi Julie! Yes, that would work but you would want to substitute it properly. If measuring by weight, use the same amount as listed (220 grams) but if using measuring cups you’ll need to use 2 cups (cake flour is finer so you need more of it by volume to get to the same weight). I hope that helps, I hope you love the muffins, and thank you so much for trusting my recipes! It really means so much to me!
Adrienne
Wonderful! Made these with salted butter, since that’s what I had on hand, and did Sam’s method of changing the salt amount. I also realized once I was knee-deep into the recipe around 10pm that had no milk–kind husband volunteered to run to Kroger, but we made it work by making “vegan buttermilk” with unsweetened oat milk and vinegar and it worked wonderfully! We skipped the glaze and the muffins were still lovely.
Sam, would you have any tips on make-ahead for this lovely recipe? Better to cook the muffins, then save, or save the batter? Many thanks!
Sam
I’m so glad you enjoyed them so much, Adrienne! If you want to make them ahead of time I would bake the batter rather than letting it sit. The batter is ok to rest for an hour maybe a bit longer, but not for a day or so. 🙂
Jill
Delicious strawberry muffins. Making your banana crumb muffins soon.
Sam
I’m so glad you enjoyed these so much, Jill! I hope you like the banana muffins just as much! 🙂
Diane
fabulously delicious. perfect recipe.
Emily @ Sugar Spun Run
Thanks for giving it a try, Diane! Enjoy ☺️
Martha
These were great! 5 stars!!!!!
Janet
When do you add the other 1/2 of the of the dry ingredients to the wet?
I don’t see that your directions state this.
Sam
Hi Janet! You add all the dry ingredients at once, once about half of them/ 50% of what you’ve added has been combined then you add the strawberries. Enjoy!
Jenn
these muffins are freaking fantastic and deserve more than five stars. I followed the recipe, only change was not using fresh fruit. instead, I filled the muffin tins halfway, added a scoop of strawberry jam and then topped with more batter. the rise on them and the fact that the tops have a nice crunch, but the middle is still fluffy and light, divine. this is going to be my go-to versatile muffin recipe. only change is I’m going to add more vanilla and maybe a splash of almond extract. 100000% recommend. and a big thank you to whoever made a tik tok video of this recipe and tagged the website. thank you for putting me on to this recipe.
Shiloh
Can you use frozen strawberries?
Sam
Hi Shiloh! That will work just fine. 🙂
Catherine
wonderful strawberry muffin recipe! my kids love it but I’d skip the frosting next tme and just go with strawberry jam filling.
Susan Taylor
Do you think these Strawberry Muffins would freeze well?
Sam
Yes, they should freeze well, enjoy! 🙂
Lyn
Great muffins. I wish I had watched the video before making them. I think I could have chopped the strawberries less so there would be larger pieces like you did it. I also only let the batter rest for 15 minutes instead of 30 minutes and filled all of the muffin tins. Next time I make them I will follow your video more closely.
Emily @ Sugar Spun Run
We hope you enjoy them even more the second time around, Lyn! ☺️
Lyn
Hi – Just wondering if the batter can be made a day ahead. I’d like to serve fresh baked muffins to visiting friends who are early risers.
Sam
Hi Lyn! Unfortunately I haven’t tried it so I can’t say for sure how it would turn out.
Toby
You are an fabulous cook! These are my favorite fruit muffins and a “must” to make when fresh strawberries are in season. They freeze great and we eke them out to enjoy over the months. I left off the topping and they are still delicious.
Sam
Thank you so much, Toby! I’m so glad you enjoyed them so much! 🙂
Sara
I just made these today and they turned out wonderfully! I opted not to make a glaze because these muffins are perfectly sweet as is, but I might dust the tops with powdered sugar before delivering them to family, because why not!
I am so happy with how moist and tender they came out and your instructions were very clear and concise which I really appreciate. I particularly wanted to thank you for your tip for letting the batter rest because following that ensured every muffin rose beautifully! Thanks for the delicious recipe!
Emily @ Sugar Spun Run
We’re so happy you enjoyed them, Sara! Thanks so much for coming back to leave a review ❤
Sarab
Can I add chocolate chips? I made your banana crumb muffins and they were the best. I added a lil cinnamon cause I love cinnamon but everybody loved them. I think I could eat the crumb topping by itself!
Sam
You could throw some chocolate chips in but be careful to not overload the batter. 🙂
Kevin O'Keefe
Incredible! They’re good without the glaze too…almost too sugary for me with the glaze, but definitely not too sugary for my family!
Sam
I’m so glad everyone enjoyed them so much, Kevin! 🙂
Richard
I am new to baking, so thank you for the help getting recipes that make me look good. This batter is very thick but it works very well. I added blueberries to my muffins. They came out great.
I made these while I waited for the 30min for the strawberry muffins. I did have to add time I think because of doing both batches at the same time.
Thank you
Emily @ Sugar Spun Run
We’re so happy you enjoyed the muffins, Richard! Thanks for trusting our recipes and coming back to leave a review 😊
Autumn
So glad I came across this recipe! I made these (didn’t have cornstarch and used the buttermilk alternative) and they came out so delicious! Flavorful and fluffy and moist. Making them again. This time I got buttermilk and cornstarch hehe 😊
Sam
I’m so glad you enjoyed them so much, Autumn! 🙂