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Make Ahead Muffins

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By: Leigh Anne WilkesPosted: 9/10/16Updated: 8/18/23

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These easy make ahead muffins are the perfect kid friendly recipe, and give you fresh muffins fast anytime you like.

Make ahead Muffins

This is a great basic muffin recipe that can be dressed up or dressed down.  You can add in your favorite muffin flavors such as blueberries, chocolate chips or apple bits.  But the best part of the recipe is that you can make up the batter and then freeze it in the muffin tins!  

Make ahead Muffins

Now you have muffins ready to be popped into the oven in a matter of minutes any morning you want a nice hot muffin. I had my three cute sisters back in the kitchen to help me this time. We had lots of fun along with learning a few things too, like how to level your flour and yogurt. And then how to crack an egg.

Make ahead Muffins

I wrote the recipe out onto the paper covered table so the girls knew exactly how much of each ingredient they needed.   They did all the measuring and mixing. They decided they wanted to make both blueberry muffins and chocolate chip muffins so we divided the batter in half and made both.

Make ahead Muffins

We then used an ice cream scoop to scoop the batter into a well greased muffin tin.

Make ahead Muffins

At this point you can cover the muffin tin with plastic wrap and put it into the freezer for about 6 hours or until the batter freezes firm.

Make ahead Muffins

After they are nice and frozen remove them from the freezer and pop them out of the muffin tin and put them into a  freezer bag.  Now you are ready for a nice fresh, hot muffin at any time!  They only take about 20 minutes to bake frozen.

Make ahead Muffins

Of course we had to bake a batch right them so the girls could taste test them. They met with the girls approval.  

Make ahead Muffins

They had a hard time deciding whether they liked the blueberry or chocolate chip better but I think the chocolate chip won out!

Make ahead Muffins

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5 from 2 votes

Make Ahead Muffins

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes
Delicious muffins you can make ahead and pop in the oven for fresh muffins any time!
serves: 18 muffins
Prep:20 minutes minutes
Cook:35 minutes minutes
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Total:55 minutes minutes
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Ingredients

  • 3 C flour
  • 1 Tbsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 10 Tbsp butter softened
  • 1 C sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 C buttermilk
  • 1/2 C plain Greek yogurt
  • 1 C chocolate chips blueberries or other add in of choice.

Instructions

  • Grease muffin tin well.
  • Mix together all dry ingredients into bowl.
  • In mixer beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.
  • Add in eggs, once at a time.
  • Add in vanilla.
  • Alternate adding in flour mixture, buttermilk and yogurt.
  • Mix until just combined
  • Fold in blueberries or chocolate chips
  • Scoop into prepared muffin tin.
  • Cover with plastic wrap and freeze for approx. 6 hours.
  • Remove batter balls from tin and place in a freezer bag.
  • When ready to serve bake at 375 degrees for approx. 25-35 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through. I found the baking time for unfrozen batter to be about the same.

Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 246kcal (12%) Carbohydrates: 35g (12%) Protein: 4g (8%) Fat: 10g (15%) Saturated Fat: 6g (38%) Trans Fat: 1g Cholesterol: 38mg (13%) Sodium: 182mg (8%) Potassium: 117mg (3%) Fiber: 1g (4%) Sugar: 18g (20%) Vitamin A: 269IU (5%) Vitamin C: 1mg (1%) Calcium: 71mg (7%) Iron: 1mg (6%)
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Course:Breakfast
Cuisine:American
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  1. Anne says

    Posted on 7/11 at 3:58 pm

    Making these right now with my daughter! I feel super stupid – and I’m clearly not a baker – that I added in the sugar with the dry ingredients. (Anyone else make this mistake?) I’m hoping it will still turn out okay. We’ll see.

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  2. Eugenia Ellie says

    Posted on 4/22 at 7:18 pm

    Could not get the proper recipe It said 1 cup buttermilk & under that it said Yogurt but the
    quntity was covered by the box of soda.

    Reply
    • Leigh Anne says

      Posted on 4/22 at 8:36 pm

      The recipe looks fine on my screen. It is 1/2 C plain Greek Yogurt.

      Reply
  3. Nealla says

    Posted on 2/8 at 2:37 pm

    Please clarify…… I noticed your freezer bag says 35-40 minutes, but the recipe states and 25…..thanks!

    Reply
    • Leigh Anne says

      Posted on 2/22 at 12:34 pm

      I found that when I baked them they didn’t quite need the 35-40 minutes and 25-30 was more likely. May depend on your oven too so just watch them.

      Reply
  4. Lolly Jane says

    Posted on 9/14 at 2:58 pm

    Yummy yummy! Going to put my 11 year old in charge of this recipe!

    Reply
    • Leigh Anne says

      Posted on 9/15 at 1:04 pm

      I hope they have fun with it!

      Reply
  5. Mariel @ Or so she says... says

    Posted on 9/11 at 10:13 am

    I love that you shared this. Cooking with my kids is one of my favorite things… they’re even taking cooking classes at a local shop. I’m always looking for recipes to make with them. Pinned!

    Reply
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