Homemade Muffin Recipes

The BEST homemade muffin recipes! We’ve got all kinds of muffin flavors, from easy blueberry, flavorful pumpkin, moist banana, delicious chocolate chip – you name it. Meet your new favorite on-the-go breakfast recipe.

Chocolate Muffins

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    Double Chocolate Muffins

    Moist and tender Double Chocolate Muffins feature a brown sugar cocoa muffin studded with gooey chocolate chunks for the ultimate easy treat! Ready in just 35 minutes, no mixer required.

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    Chocolate Coffee Toffee Crunch Muffins

    Chocolate Coffee Toffee Crunch Muffins feature a mocha muffin that's studded with chocolate chips and topped with a crunchy toffee streusel, for the best combination of flavor and texture! Ready in just 35 minutes, no mixer required!

Chocolate Chip Muffins

Pumpkin Muffins

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    Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

    Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins are loaded with spices and gooey chocolate chips for a super easy 35 minute recipe, perfect for breakfast, brunch, or a sweet snack!

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    Pumpkin Muffins

    Pumpkin Muffins are loaded with spices and topped with a brown sugar pecan streusel. So dreamy, EASY, and ready in under 1 hour!

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    Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

    These Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins bake up tall, soft, and tender with bright lemon flavor. Includes the key tricks for bakery-style muffin tops.

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    Ultimate Muffins

    This Ultimate Muffin recipe is THE master muffin base that is perfectly flavorful, tender, and moist. The flavor and add-in options are limitless! 

How to Make Muffins

With these how-to articles, you’ll have perfect muffins every time.

How to Measure Flour

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ve probably seen me talk about the correct way to measure flour at one time or...

Tessa’s Top Baking Tips

These are the three things I wish EVERYONE knew before attempting any recipe.

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Don’t overmix your muffin batter!!

Be very very careful not to overmix muffin batter once you combine the wet + dry ingredients. This will create rubbery muffins instead of perfectly moist treats. Gently stir until just combined. If there’s a few small streaks of flour remaining, that’s perfectly fine.

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Secret baking science tip: chill your muffin batter!

The BEST thing you can do to make your muffins more tender and even a little taller is to cover and chill your batter in the fridge overnight before baking. It’s very similar to chilling cookie dough. Think of it like marinating.

If you don’t believe me, just look at the comparisons in my How to Bake Tall Bakery Style Muffins article.

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What’s the best muffin tin?

I typically don’t like nonstick bakeware, which is why I was so surprised when I fell in love with the Wilton Recipe Right Nonstick Muffin Pans. They bake evenly and achieve lightly golden brown edges and clean up beautifully. I’ve had 3 of these tins for 2+ years and love them!

How to Make Muffins

Watch these step-by-step videos for how to make a batch of my Ultimate Muffins recipe and how to freeze buttermilk – a star ingredient in most of my muffin recipes.

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