Strawberry Muffins
Since Valentine’s Day falls on a Monday this year, I think we should celebrate the entire weekend before the big day. A leisurely breakfast in bed with a plate full of these sweet and tender muffins sounds just lovely to me. Tiny bites of fresh strawberries tucked in a buttermilk batter scented with cinnamon and topped with a sprinkling of sugar for crunch—what’s not to love?
Strawberry Muffins
Yields 4 muffins.
Ingredients
- ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 large egg white
- 3 tablespoons buttermilk
- ⅓ cup small-diced fresh strawberries
- 1 teaspoon light brown sugar (or regular sugar)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400° and line a muffin tin with 4 paper liners.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
- In a medium bowl, beat together with an electric mixer the butter and sugar. Beat this mixture very well, until fluffy and well-blended, about 3-4 minutes.
- Add the egg white and beat to combine.
- Add half of the flour mixture and 2 tablespoons of the buttermilk and beat lightly. Add the remaining flour and buttermilk and beat until just combined—do not over mix.
- With a spatula, fold in the diced strawberries. Divide the batter between the 4 muffin cups and sprinkle ¼ teaspoon of brown sugar over each muffin before placing in the oven. Bake 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
I am totally with you on the weekend of celebrating:-) These are so pretty from the strawberries!
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Those look amazing. YUM!
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Sweet & romantic!
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These look so sweet. I love strawberries, I could eat the whole batch!
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These look wonderful!
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These look so good, love the addition of cinnamon too.
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yes let’s celebrate the entire weekend, love it!! a buttermilk batter my fav!!
sweetlife
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Beautiful muffins! Of all the berries, I think strawberries are my favorite. And love your use of buttermilk in the batter. Buttermilk always makes a baked good better
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I’m all for celebrating all weekend long. And I can sure go for these muffins too!
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The muffins look great, but the strawberries in that cup are making me drool, too!
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These are so sweet! I love them, Christina. Really and truly. I’m going to ask James to make these for my birthday breakfast next week
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I love how I have almost all of those ingredients at home!
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What’s not to love indeed! Strawberries in a muffin sound scrumptious! (plus our good friend buttermilk…) Let the V-Day celebrating begin!
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These look great! Everytime I try to bake with strawberries though, my baked goods get mushy or soggy. Did that happen to you?
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Christina Reply:
February 4th, 2011 at 5:40 am
Hi Megan!
Thanks for the comment! I know exactly what you’re talking about when it comes to baking with fresh fruit. I found that when I tried to put any more than 1/3 cup of strawberries into these muffins, they got soggy or wet. One time I made them with close to a 1/2 cup of strawberries, and I actually had water in the bottom of the muffin paper and the muffin wouldn’t hold together at all. Gross! So keep ‘em diced really small, lightly fill the 1/3 cup measure and you should be fine! Let me know how it goes
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I love the ide aof strawberry muffins for Valentines day! And I love the idea of brakfast in bed to celebrate too!
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You had me at leisurely breakfast in bed! Sounds amazinggg! You might think I’m kidding when I keep saying that I haven’t tried foods you post but yet again…I have never tried strawberry muffins! Looks like we need to live closer so you can make me tasty treats.
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