Bakery Style Lemon Crumb Muffins Recipes

MASTER BAKERY STYLE MUFFIN RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F (218°C). Generously grease a jumbo 6-count muffin pan with butter or nonstick spray (nonstick spray recommended) or line with muffin liners. Set aside.
• Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon (if using) together in a large bowl. Set aside.
• Whisk the melted butter, oil, sugar, and eggs together until combined. Then whisk in the sour cream, milk, and vanilla extract. Mixture will be pale yellow. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and fold together with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon until completely combined. Use a whisk to rid any large lumps of flour, if needed. Avoid overmixing. The batter will be thick. Fold in the add-in(s).
• Divide batter between each muffin cup, filling all the way to the top. Sprinkle with coarse sugar (for added crunch, recommended!). Bake at 425°F for 5 minutes, then, keeping the muffins in the oven, reduce the oven temperature to 350°F (177°C) and continue to bake for 25-30 minutes or until the tops are lightly golden brown and centers are set. Stick a toothpick in the center of a muffin to test for doneness. If it comes out clean, the muffins are done.
• Allow to cool for 10 minutes in pan before serving.
• Cover leftover muffins and store at room temperature for 5 days or in the refrigerator for 1 week. Muffins freeze well for up to 3 months. Thaw in the refrigerator or on the counter.

BAKERY STYLE BLUEBERRY MUFFINS WITH CRUMB TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Line muffin cups with paper or foil liners or spray muffin tins with cooking spray.
• In a medium bowl, whisk the flour with the baking powder and salt.
• In a large bowl, combine the sugar, eggs and canola oil and mix until well blended. Beat in the milk and vanilla.
• Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture and stir until batter is smooth. Gently fold in the blueberries.
• Spoon the batter into the muffin cups, filling them about three-quarters full. Spoon the crumb topping on top of each one and bake for 30 minutes or until the muffins are golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out dry.
• Cool on a rack for 10 minutes before serving.
• TO MAKE THE CRUMB TOPPING
• In a medium bowl, combine the flour with the brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir in the melted butter.

LEMON RASPBERRY CRUMB MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl combine the flour and sugar. Add in the cubed butter and mix, with a pastry blender or two forks, until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. Place in the fridge until needed.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees (F). Line a 12 cup muffin tin with paper liners and it set aside.
• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
• In a separate large bowl, whisk together the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, sour cream, lemon juice, zest, and extract (if using), mixing until ingredients are fully incorporated.
• Add the dry mixture of ingredients to the wet mixture of ingredients and, using a rubber spatula, gently fold until just combined.
• Fold in the raspberries until combined.
• Divide the batter evenly among prepared muffin tins, filling each tin all the way to the top.
• Sprinkle each filled muffin tin mold with a teaspoon or two of the crumb topping.
• Bake for 22 minutes, or until the tops are puffed up and lightly golden brown, and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, or with a just a few moist crumbs attached. Cool muffins at least 5 minutes in the pan before transferring to a cooling rack.
• Enjoy muffins warm, or store in a covered container for up to 2 days.
• In a small bowl combine the confectioners' sugar, lemon juice, and zest, whisk until smooth, adding more juice as needed to reach desired consistency. Drizzle over the muffins right before serving.

LEMON BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 F degrees and line standard muffin or cupcake pan with paper liners and set aside.
• To make the crumb topping in a small bowl, whisk together flour, sugar and cinnamon, add melted butter and stir with a fork until crumbly. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• To make the muffins in large bowl stir together flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.
• In a medium bowl place 2/3 cup granulated sugar and lemon zest and rub for a minute. Add eggs and whisk together eggs and lemon-sugar until combined. Whisk in yogurt, oil, lemon juice and vanilla extract (mixture should be pale and yellow)
• Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients and whisk everything together.
• Reserve ½ cup of blueberries for topping. Place remaining blueberries in a small bowl. Dust blueberries with 1 tablespoon flour and toss them until all blueberries are coated with thin layer of flour and then fold them really gently in the batter.
• Spoon batter into prepared muffin tins, filling maximum 2/3 of each cup and gently tap the pan on the work surface to set. Cover the batter with the remaining blueberries and then cover the blueberries generously with streusel topping.
• Place them in the oven and bake at 400 F for 5 minutes, then REDUCE THE OVEN TEMPERATURE TO 375 F and bake 13-15 minutes or until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool for 5 minutes in the pan then remove muffins and cool on a wire rack.

BAKERY STYLE LEMON BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.
• In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt for 20 seconds, set aside.
• Add sugar to the bowl of an electric stand mixer, add lemon zest mix with paddle attachment for 15 seconds.
• Add butter and 1 Tbsp vegetable oil then whip mixture until pale and fluffy. Mix in remaining 3 Tbsp vegetable oil.
• Blend in eggs one at a time. Remove bowl from stand mixer.
• In a bowl or liquid measuring cup whisk together buttermilk, sour cream and lemon juice.
• Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and fold until nearly combined, then add 1/2 of the buttermilk mixture and fold until nearly combined. Repeat process with flour and buttermilk mixtures once more. Fold in last 1/3 of the the flour mixture until nearly combined.
• Fold in blueberries (batter should be combined at this point but don't over-mix, it will be thick and starting to fluff up).
• Divide batter among paper lined-muffin cups filling each cup heaped full (about a slightly heaped 1/3 cup in each. Use up all the batter), if using sanding sugar sprinkle evenly over tops of muffins.
• Bake in preheated oven 8 minutes then reduce oven temperature to 400 degrees and continue to bake 10 - 13 minutes longer until toothpick inserted into center comes out free of batter.
• Remove from muffin pan and cool on a wire rack. Store muffins in an airtight container.

LEMON CRUMB MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, combine the eggs, sour cream, butter, lemon zest and juice. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. , In a small bowl, combine flour and sugar; cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over batter., Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. In a small bowl, whisk glaze ingredients; drizzle over warm muffins. Serve warm.

BAKERY STYLE BLUEBERRY MUFFINS WITH ORANGE STREUSEL CRUMB TOPPING

Steps:

• FOR THE TOPPING
• In small bowl add flour, sugar and zest of one whole orange.
• Melt butter and add to flour mixture and combine well with a fork.
• Cover and set aside in refrigerator.
• FOR BLUEBERRY MUFFINS:
• Start with dry ingredients:
• In a large bowl add the flour, baking powder, sugar, and pinch of salt. Whisk well.
• In a glass measuring cup or bowl melt the stick of butter.
• To the butter add the greek yogurt, milk, orange juice, eggs, and vanilla. Mix well.
• Add ⅓ of the wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Mix gently.
• Repeat two more times with ⅓ of wet ingredients.
• Gently fold in blueberries.
• Cover and place in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes or overnight.
• WHEN READY TO BAKE:
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Prepare muffin tin accordingly (i.e.. muffin liners, or nonstick product of choice)
• If using parchment paper make sure to butter or spray with nonstick before placing in muffin tin.
• Use a glass to help push the paper down in the tin to form the liner.
• Remove batter and fill muffins liners or individual tin over the top.
• Top with generous amount of orange streusel crump topping.
• Place in upper third of oven and bake for 10 minutes at 425 degrees. Do not open oven at this point.
• After 10 minutes, without opening oven, turn temperature down to 350 degrees and bake until a toothpick comes out clean.
• If you feel your topping is browning too fast, you can tent the top of your pan with tin foil.

BAKERY STYLE LEMON CRUMB MUFFINS

Steps:

• FOR THE MUFFINS: Grease or line 24 regular-size muffin cups with paper wrappers.
• Place the pastry flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, lemon zest, and lemon extract in a large bowl; stir together well.
• Add the eggs and melted butter; blend just until combined, making sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl so that all ingredients are mixed.
• Using an electric mixer on low speed, slowly blend in the milk; mix for about 5 minutes.
• Use an ice-cream scoop to measure out the batter into the prepared muffin tins.
• MAKE THE CRUMBS: Using your hands, blend together all crumb ingredients until crumbly; sprinkle on top of each muffin.
• Bake at 400*F for about 20 minutes, until the tops spring back and a toothpick tests done.
• Cool 10 minutes in pans before removing; cool slightly.
• Dust with powdered sugar, if desired, and serve warm or cool.