I’m a sucker for treats warm out of the oven. But really, who isn’t!? One of my favorite things to burn my mouth on is muffins fresh out of the oven. I thought I’d treat myself to some classic blueberry muffins, but when I saw frozen black raspberries in the grocery store, classic blueberry went right out the window. The raspberries add loads of flavor and tons of sexy purple black coloring. These muffins are perfect, fresh out of the oven for a weekend breakfast, and then freeze well for a mid week breakfast treat. And I sure do like my breakfast treats. I can’t help myself.
Try these muffins with any berry, fresh or frozen. Well… hold back on the frozen strawberries. They’re too big. But blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, or any combination you think is festive and inviting. Go nuts and show off your muffin stylings!
Black Raspberry Breakfast Muffins
adapted from The Gourmet Cookbook (which I can’t get enough of!)
3/4 stick (6 Tablespoons) unsalted butter
1/3 cup whole milk
1 large egg
1 egg yolk
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups berries (I used frozen black raspberries)
Put a rack in the upper third of oven and preheat to 375 degrees F. Generously butter or spray muffin cups. This recipe makes 12 standard muffins. If using paper cupcake liners, you don’t have to grease the muffin pan.
Melt butter in a small saucepan over moderately low heat; remove from heat. Whisk in milk, egg, yolk, and vanilla until well combined.
Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Add milk mixture and stir until just combined. Gently but thoroughly fold in the berries.
Divide the batter among muffin cups and spread evenly. Sprinkle generously with turbinado sugar. Bake until golden and crisp and a wooden pick or skewer inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 18-20 minutes Cool in pan of a rack for 15 minutes, then run a knife around edges of muffin tops and carefully remove from cups. (I used paper cupcake liners, and didn’t have to grease the pan.) Serve hot, warm or at room temperature.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I agree with you Joy- If I am gonna burn my tongue off, I’d prefer it to be from a tasty and sugary freshly baked breakfast good. I like to make these kinds of muffins too. Sometimes, just throwing this batter into a loaf pan makes for a delicious loaf/cake too. But that can be dangerous for me as I am more apt to polish the whole thing off
April 30th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Oh Joy, these look and sound amazing! There is nothing in this world like a hot muffin fresh out of the oven. Pure satisfaction!
April 30th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Ohhhh! I love black raspberries. They are SO worth the 30 minute flossing session required after consuming them- though I usually surrender and end up turning them into a coulis to save myself the bloody gums—they are some seedy little suckers. Seedy but dee-lish.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:05 am
I have never heard of black raspberries. How intriguing! I agree with you totally. There is nothing like a fresh muffin straight from the oven. These look fantastic!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 6:24 am
I too didn’t know that black raspberries existed?! Another thing to crave, that I’ll most likely never see in the NL, aaargghh!
Your muffins look great by the way, I’m such a fan of quick breads and muffins and the instant gratification they provide!
May 1st, 2008 at 6:35 am
Oh that does look nice–very seductive coloring on those muffins. And I’m totally with you on the burns from eating muffins too soon–but I’d have it no other way.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:53 am
these look seriously amazing. that batter looks just delicious! i’ve never seen black raspberries before, but i will look!
May 1st, 2008 at 8:33 am
breakfast muffins, eh? what if i want them for dinner? or a snack? or preferably all of the above?
joy, these are gorgeous. i’d say that they’re too pretty to eat, but we both know i’d be lying.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:45 pm
I’ve been adding my frozen black raspberries to my Greek Yogurt every morning, but I’ve been thinking about a muffin for awhile now. For the others, I bought mine in the freezer aisle of Trader Joe’s.
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Joy, thank you soooo much for this post!
All the time I was wondering why blackberries I remember from back home were different in taste from those here in UK, and after I checked latin names of the plants I learned that back home we had black raspberries not blakberries… I did not even know that there were two different spieces!!
First thing in the morning I’m going to look for black raspberries and Polish - English dictionary not to make similar mistake in future.
Thank you again, Margot
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:00 am
Yum!!! It is all about the breakfast treats! (OK, so you know me, it is actually all about the breakfast treats, lunch treats, afternoon treats, dinner, dessert and midnight snacks!) These muffins look and sound SO SO good! Black Raspberries are my favorite - especially black raspberry jam. Sooo good!
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:51 pm
i love to bake with berries, these muffins are perfect! look at the beautiful color, and they look so moist, great looking muffins!
May 5th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Wow! These are gorgeous!
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:28 am
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June 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
THANK YOU !!!!!!!
A friend of mine has Berries in the freeze and I’ll be hitting her up for some in the morning.These muffins look wonderfull.
YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 26th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I’m just sure when I get those berries that this muffin will taste ever bit as good as it looks in this picture above. Hopefully by this time tomorrow night I will be eating them.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I have oodles of these plants in my yard, and am trying desperately to kill most of them, and the more I try, the more invasive they get! Now they’re growing up through the cracks in my deck! I seem to be allergic to the thorns in some way because wherever I get scratched, it looks like poison ivy, but isn’t, of course. I was searching for a recipe to use, as each day I can pick at least a pint of fresh berries that mostly we eat fresh, but these muffins have me drooling. I’m still going to try to wipe out the main part of the crop though! Thanks for helping me with the bumper crop!
July 7th, 2008 at 6:49 am
I have some black raspberries growing in my yard and I love to make muffins. These sound grrrreat!! Some bird must have planted the vine, it just came up last year, now I have 13 vines. My farm! Thanks for the recipe. I used to eat these as a kid, its like eating a memory now.
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I just made these (with regular red raspberries) and they are fantastic. They’re hot out of the oven, I’m eating one now and wondering if I can eat all twelve before my husband gets home and notices…
October 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am
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April 4th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
i have made these and they are just heavenly.
thank you for sharing….. you have heart and soul and it goes into your food…..
June 13th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
I live in Eastern Pennylvania and we pretty much have a wild black raspberry farm here, LOL…I can’t wait to make these muffins when the berries come out next month!!!
June 29th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I have been picking these darlings for one week, every single day for at least 3 hours. I have picked gallons and gallons of them.
My property is FULL of them.
Thanks for the muffin recipe! It’s always fun to try something a little different. If you’ve not tried these berries, you must. There is nothing like them.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:12 am
I just made these last night and WOW they are good! We just went black raspberry picking and these were the perfect thing to make. My husband and I both love them. I wrote about them on my blog and linked back to your recipe - I hope that’s ok!