Lemon Blueberry Muffins | Life Made Sweeter

These wholesome Lemon Blueberry Muffins are mushy, mild fluffy and ideal for spring! A straightforward one-bowl muffin recipe made with recent lemon juice and lemon zest with recent or frozen blueberries. Gluten-free, dairy-free, refined-sugar free, paleo-friendly with low carb and keto choices.

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Fluffy Gluten-Free Lemon Blueberry Muffins

Searching for a wholesome muffin recipe for spring and summer time? These scrumptious Lemon Blueberry Muffins are mushy, fluffy and bursting with citrus and candy blueberries.

They’re straightforward to make in only one bowl and you need to use recent or frozen blueberries making them excellent for any time of 12 months! Made with healthful elements so you’ll be able to really feel good having one for breakfast or dessert! These muffins are additionally utterly grain-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free,  paleo pleasant with low carb and keto sweetener choices.

What You’ll Want

The ingredient listing is healthful and the proper mixture to provide the fluffiest lemon blueberry muffins. Right here’s what you want:

For the Blueberry Lemon Muffins

• Giant Eggs: Carry 4 eggs to room temperature.
• Coconut nectar syrup: our favourite paleo and vegan liquid sweetener to imitate the style of honey. Produced from the sap of the flowers of the coconut palm. Should you don’t have coconut syrup, you may as well sub with maple syrup or agave syrup. For low carb or keto, sub along with your most well-liked liquid sweetener akin to Lakanto Sugar-free maple syrup or yacon syrup.
• Granulated Maple Sugar: Granulated maple syrup is our favourite unrefined sugar that mimics the style and texture of standard cane sugar.  For keto lemon poppyseed muffins, sub with granulated monk fruit sweetener. You can too use coconut sugar, however the shade can be darker.
• Coconut Oil: We use melted and cooled refined coconut oil to keep away from any added coconut taste. You can too sub with any impartial tasting oil or melted and cooled unsalted ghee/butter (if not dairy-free). You’ll want just a little additional for greasing the muffin tin.
• Lemon Juice & Zest: You’ll want about 3 tablespoons of recent lemon juice and 1/3 tablespoon of zest.
• Pure Vanilla Extract: Only a pinch to make these muffins additional scrumptious.
• Baking Powder: will assist your muffins rise sky-high! Be sure you use a grain-free baking powder to maintain these paleo, as wanted.
• Superfine Almond Flour + Tapioca flour: this mixture of grain-free flours mimic the style and texture of all goal flour. The tapioca flour provides these gluten-free muffins that mushy and fluffy texture. You can too with arrowroot starch.
• Advantageous Sea Salt: Only a pinch!
• Blueberries: you need to use recent blueberries or frozen blueberries (unthawed) on this wholesome muffin recipe.

How you can Make Lemon Blueberry Muffins

These blueberry muffins are made in a snap with solely 20 minutes of bake time! Right here’s put together the muffins and the glaze:

• Prep for Baking: Preheat the oven to 400°F. Calmly grease 10 muffin-cups in a muffin pan with coconut oil or avocado oil or line with 10 PARCHMENT PAPER liners.
• Mix Moist Substances: In a medium-sized bowl, beat the eggs with coconut nectar syrup and maple sugar till mild and fluffy. Add the coconut oil, lemon juice, lemon zest and vanilla, and whisk till easy and mixed.
  
• Sift in Dry Substances: Place a big mesh sieve over the bowl and sift within the baking powder, almond flour, tapioca flour and salt. Stir till nicely mixed with no lumps.
• Fill Muffin Tin: Fill 10 muffin cups just one/4 full with the muffin batter. Add 4 blueberries in every cup. Fill the remaining muffin cups as much as 3/4 full. Add the remaining blueberries dividing evenly into every muffin cup. This methodology prevents the blueberries from sinking and bleeding. Alternatively, in case you would relatively simply combine the blueberries into the batter, you are able to do in order nicely and simply fill every muffin cup 3/4 full.
  
• Bake & Let Cool: Bake at 400F for five minutes, then decrease the temperature to 350F (leaving the muffin pan within the oven undistubered). Bake at 350F for one more 12-13 minutes, or till golden and a toothpick comes out clear. Take away from the oven and funky for at the very least 20 minutes.
• Make the non-compulsory glaze: Combine collectively the elements for the glaze and drizzle it over the cooled muffins.

Suggestions for Success

We love how rapidly and simply these muffins come collectively. Try my useful suggestions for finesse them!

• Grease Muffin Tin: Keep in mind to frivolously grease your muffin tin earlier than pouring within the batter, in any other case your muffins will stick with the pan! We like to do that after we preheat the oven so we don’t overlook. Or line with parchment paper liners. Don’t use common muffin liners.
• Sift Dry Substances: Be sure you add the dry elements to the moist ingredient combination by means of a mesh sieve. This can forestall clumps of flour or baking soda from making their means into your muffins.
• Layer the batter: Be sure you fill your muffin cup with 1/4 cup muffin batter after which add the blueberries adopted by extra batter then lastly with the remaining blueberries. This methodology prevents the blueberries from sinking and bleeding.
• Verify Doneness with a Toothpick: To keep away from over- or under-baking your muffins, insert a toothpick into the middle of 1 to test for doneness. The toothpick ought to come out clear and the muffin tops must be

Serving Ideas

Unsure what to pair with lemon blueberry muffins? We prefer to serve ours within the following methods.

• Pair with a cup of scorching cocao or tea: A muffin as moist and fluffy as this one deserves a pleasant cup of scorching chocolate or matcha latte!
• Serve with Bacon: Should you’re having fun with one in all these muffins for breakfast, we suggest serving it with a fast savory breakfast aspect like bacon! Whether or not you make your bacon within the oven or the air fryer, it’ll style superb alongside a candy and tangy lemon muffin.
• Pair with Fruit: It’s no secret that lemon goes nice with different fruits. That’s why we love consuming these muffins with a aspect of recent berry salad!

How you can Retailer Lemon Blueberry Muffins

These muffins could be saved at room temperature for 3-5 days. Simply hold them in an hermetic container. Putting a small, dampened piece of paper towel within the container along with your muffins is an effective way to maintain them moist.

Can I Freeze These?

Sure, these paleo blueberry muffins are freezer pleasant! Freeze them in an hermetic, freezer-safe container for as much as 3 months and thaw them in a single day within the fridge earlier than having fun with. Should you’re planning on freezing your muffins, maintain off on making the glaze till you serve them, if attainable.

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Lemon Blueberry Muffins

These Lemon Blueberry Muffins are mushy, mild fluffy and ideal for spring! A wholesome one-bowl muffin recipe that’s straightforward to make with recent lemon juice and lemon zest with recent or frozen blueberries. Gluten-free, dairy-free, refined-sugar free, paleo-friendly with low carb and keto choices.

Course: Breakfast

Delicacies: American

Key phrase: selfmade muffins, lemon glaze, lemon muffins

Servings: 10 muffins

Energy: 246 kcal

Creator: Kelly

Substances

For the Muffins

• 4 giant eggs , room temperature
• 3 tbs coconut nectar syrup , or sub with maple syrup. For low carb, use Lakanto sugar-free maple syrup, yacon syrup or most well-liked liquid sweetener.
• 3 tbsp granulated maple sugar , may use coconut sugar however the shade can be darker. For low carb sub with granulated monk fruit sweetener or most well-liked granular sweetener
• 1/3 cup melted & cooled refined coconut oil . may sub unsalted ghee or butter if not dairy-free
• 1/4 cup lemon juice , recent – about 2 small/medium lemons
• 1/3 tbsp lemon zest , about 2 small lemons
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp baking powder , Be sure you use a grain-free baking powder to maintain these paleo, as wanted.
• 2 cups superfine almond flour
• 1/3 cup tapioca flour , may sub with arrowroot starch or 1/4 cup coconut flour for low carb
• 1/8 tsp superb sea salt
• 1 cup recent blueberries or frozen unthawed blueberries

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Calmly grease 10 muffin-cups in a muffin pan with coconut oil or avocado oil or line with 10 PARCHMENT PAPER liners.

2. In a medium-sized bowl, beat the eggs with coconut nectar syrup and maple sugar till mild and fluffy. Add the coconut oil, lemon juice, lemon zest and vanilla, and whisk till easy and mixed.

3. Place a big mesh sieve over the bowl and sift within the baking powder, almond flour, tapioca flour and salt. Stir till nicely mixed with no lumps.

4.  Fill 10 muffin cups just one/4 full with the muffin batter. Add 4 blueberries in every cup. Fill the remaining muffin cups as much as 3/4 full. Add the remaining blueberries dividing evenly into every muffin cup. This methodology prevents the blueberries from sinking and bleeding. 

   Alternatively, in case you would relatively simply combine the blueberries into the batter, you are able to do in order nicely and simply fill every muffin cup 3/4 full. 

5. Bake at 400F for five minutes, then decrease the temperature to 350F (leaving the muffin pan within the oven undistubered). Bake at 350F for one more 12-13 minutes, or till golden and a toothpick comes out clear.

   Take away from the oven and funky for at the very least 20 minutes.

Recipe Notes

How you can Retailer 

These muffins could be saved at room temperature for 3-5 days. Simply hold them in an hermetic container. Putting a small, dampened piece of paper towel within the container along with your muffins is an effective way to maintain them moist.

How you can Freeze

Freeze these muffins in an hermetic, freezer-safe container for as much as 3 months and thaw them in a single day within the fridge earlier than having fun with.

Should you’re planning on freezing your muffins, maintain off on making the glaze till you serve them, if attainable.

Vitamin Details

Lemon Blueberry Muffins

Quantity Per Serving (1 muffin)

Energy 246 Energy from Fats 171

% Day by day Worth*

Fats 19g29%

Carbohydrates 16g5%

Fiber 3g12%

Sugar 8g9%

Protein 6g12%

* Vitamin information are supplied as a courtesy utilizing the WPRM recipe calculator. It’s best to make your individual calculations to make sure accuracy. We expressly disclaim any and all legal responsibility of any form with respect to any act or omission wholly or partially in reliance on something contained on this web site. % Day by day Values are based mostly on a 2000 calorie food regimen.