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
1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Pinch of salt
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg white
3 tablespoons buttermilk
1/3 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.
Christina Lane is the author of 3 cookbooks all about cooking and baking for two. She has scaled down hundreds of recipes into smaller servings so you can enjoy your favorite dishes without the leftovers! Valentine's Day is her favorite holiday.
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 :-)
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 :)
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.
Looks yummy! Will try it tomorrow. If I substutute the strawberries for raspberries, should I also stick with 1/3 cup of the berries or do less raspberries since it seems to be more watery compared to the strawberries? Thanks!
I am totally with you on the weekend of celebrating:-) These are so pretty from the strawberries!
Those look amazing. YUM!
Sweet & romantic!
These look so sweet. I love strawberries, I could eat the whole batch!
These look wonderful!
These look so good, love the addition of cinnamon too.
yes let’s celebrate the entire weekend, love it!! a buttermilk batter my fav!!
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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 :-)
I’m all for celebrating all weekend long. And I can sure go for these muffins too! :)
The muffins look great, but the strawberries in that cup are making me drool, too!
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 :)
I love how I have almost all of those ingredients at home!
What’s not to love indeed! Strawberries in a muffin sound scrumptious! (plus our good friend buttermilk…) Let the V-Day celebrating begin!
These look great! Everytime I try to bake with strawberries though, my baked goods get mushy or soggy. Did that happen to you?
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 :)
I love the ide aof strawberry muffins for Valentines day! And I love the idea of brakfast in bed to celebrate too!
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.
Hi the muffins turned out gr8, but I felt it was a little less sweet.
Looks yummy! Will try it tomorrow. If I substutute the strawberries for raspberries, should I also stick with 1/3 cup of the berries or do less raspberries since it seems to be more watery compared to the strawberries? Thanks!
Looks like a galette recipe not strawberry muffins. Can the muffin recipe be added?
Yes, sorry, was moving some things around on the site and had some errors like this. It’s been corrected!
These are yummy! I added another 1/2 to everything to get 6 muffins, and a splash if vanilla extract. They’re so moist and sweet!