I’m beginning to see cherries in the market and my Cherry Vanilla Muffins would be a delicious way to incorporate them into your daily meals.
After gorging myself on cherries every night for the past few days, I finally decided to bake something while I still had a few on hand. I didn’t want to make anything too decadent or sweet today so I turned to muffins, or as I like to think of them “almost cupcakes”
I have a good go-to recipe for muffins, which has seen quite a few variations over the years and has yet to fail me. The muffins were perfect, a delightful crumb, not too sweet with just a little bit of crunch on the exterior.
Feel free to change them up a bit, but the base recipe is a keeper and should be filed away for further use.
I hope you enjoy these as much as we did!
These little muffins truly are a wonderful treat, they freeze well and can provide a much better start to your day than some store-made over-processed version. If you don’t have cherries try peaches, nectarines, or berries…..just try them.
One thing I do is measure out all my dry ingredients and have a few sets made up in zip-lock bags ready to go. That way when I stumble out of bed, it’s not such a chore to make the muffins and have them ready for breakfast by the time my wife gets up. If you have fruit to prep do it the night before too!
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Cherry Vanilla Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup low fat Greek yogurt
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla powder or pure vanilla extract
- 1 lemon zest and a good squeeze of juice grated
- 2 cups sweet cherries pitted and cut in half fresh or frozen
- ½ cup granola for topping
Instructions
- Mix all your dry ingredients together in one bowl (including Vanilla Powder)
- Lightly beat the eggs and add in the Greek Yogurt, oil, lemon zest, and juice from the lemon. Mix all these ingredients until well blended.
- Add wet mixture to dry mixture and mix just enough to blend.
- Fold in the Cherries into the muffin mix. (donot over mix; it will make the muffins tough)
- Sprinkle the tops with granola.
- Bake for 25-30minutes at 350 degrees until the tops are golden brown.
- This will yield 6 large muffins or 12 small muffins
briarrose
Gorgeous muffins…inside and out. Love that crunchy top.
Ma What's 4 dinner
Look at those cherries!!! Gorgeous! Oh I so have to try these. I can smell them now!
Lots of yummy love,
Alex aka Ma What's For Dinner
http://www.mawhats4dinner.com
Mari
Love the texture!! Great recipe for morning breakfast or snack. Thank you for the recipe.
Have a great week 🙂
anne
Now you got me thinking about cherry & muffins:) Haven't been baking for few days now because our oven's out of commission 🙁 & cherries are abundant here ( though still expensive ) but will bake that one once we have a new oven 😀 Well done , chef 🙂
Pretend Chef
A cherry muffin sounds perfect right now for breakfast. Tummy's a grumblin'. Yummy! I like your idea of pre-made baggies of muffin mix. Glad to hear you are feeling much better. Best you got that out of your system before the Food and Wine Festival.
Hester aka The Chef Doc
These muffins are great, Chef Dennis! My mother just bought some cherries and I don't usually eat cherries but, I do eat muffins! And what a clever idea to have pre-made baggies of the dry ingredients. Perhaps that is what I should have done for my banana bread because instead, they were sitting in a bowl on the counter for over a week! My poor mother… trying to work around it with the limited space there was, haha. So glad that you're feeling better!
Why Just Eat
Those muffins are so pretty! And how sweet that you make muffins for your wife in the morning – could you put in a call to my husband? That would be great 🙂 BTW, have you tried roasting your cherries first? Roasted cherries are pretty much my new favorite thing 🙂
kitchenarian
I love all this fresh fruit! These muffins look delicious. It's time to get some cherries. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Elyse @The Cultural Dish
I have about 2 pounds of cherries in my kitchen right now… this will have to be one of the recipes I use!
warmvanillasugar
These muffins sound so yummy! Great recipe! I love trying cherries in new things 🙂
Peggy
Oh I bet the added vanilla flavor just brings these muffins to a whole new level! Glad to hear you're feeling better too Dennis!
Elin
Awwwesome cherry muffins. I love the fact that you used greek yoghurt for this muffins. They give moistness to the muffins. And by the way your photos are getting better each day. Good clicks and you have managed to once again inspired me to bake them. Have to hunt for some fresh cherries for this…though it is pricey over here , I still prefer fresh ones to canned ones 🙂 Thanks , Piggy Chef Dennis for sharing this recipe with us 🙂 Have KIV it ! Have a nice day !,
Elin
Barefeet In The Kitchen
These are gorgeous, Dennis. I haven't done a granola topping for my muffins before. I need to try that. Thanks for the idea. It sounds delicious.
Blackswan
Dennis, I'm not exactly a muffin fan & I'm changing my mind. I wanna try yours! Hahaha! Those cherries make them look soooooo tempting!1
retete- ina
These muffins look wonderful!!