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These easy make ahead muffins are the perfect kid friendly recipe, and give you fresh muffins fast anytime you like.
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!
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.
Ingredients Needed
- All Purpose Flour
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Butter
- Buttermilk
- Plain Greek yogurt
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Vanilla Extract
- Chocolate chips, blueberries or other add in of choice.
How to Make Make Ahead Muffins
- Grease muffin tin well.
- Mix together all dry ingredients into bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.
- Add in eggs, one at a time and stir to combine. Then add in vanilla and mix.
- Alternate adding in flour mixture, buttermilk and yogurt, mixing 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 frozen batter from tin and place in a freezer bag.
- Store in the freezer until ready to cook.
- Place frozen muffin batter in a greased tin and bake at 375 degrees F until golden brown and cooked through, about 25-35 minutes. No need to defrost.
Tips from leigh Anne
- Use a large cookie scoop to make sure my muffins are all the same size. This helps the muffins to bake evenly.
- Only mix muffin batter until dry ingredients are incorporated. Over mixing muffins makes them tough.
- Make sure to write the baking instructions on the freezer bag before storing them in the freezer.
- This is a kid friendly baking recipe. If I am cooking with a group of kids, I like to write the recipe out on a paper covered table so they can easily find how much of each ingredient they need.
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Make Ahead Muffins
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 in a greased muffin tin 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.
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Mansoureh says
Can you freeze these inside paper muffin cups?
Leigh Anne Wilkes says
yes you can
Morgan says
When you bake them, do you put them back in a muffin tin or just place them on a sheet pan??
Leigh Anne says
They are put into the muffin tin and frozen and then once they are frozen they are removed from the muffin tin and put into an airtight bag in the freezer.
liz says
I also want to know the answer to this question. I would only want to bake a few of the frozen muffins. Do I have to put the frozen muffin batter back in the muffin pan to bake them? And if so, can I leave the rest of the muffin sections in the muffin pan empty when I bake just 3 of the frozen muffins?
Leigh Anne Wilkes says
Yes you put them back in the muffin tin and you don’t have to fill the other empty holes.