Basic Buttermilk Muffins

  4.0 – 73 reviews  • Muffin Recipes

This is a fantastic, versatile basic muffin batter that can be used for nearly anything.

Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 35 mins
Servings: 12
Yield: 1 dozen muffins

Ingredients

  1. 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  2. ½ cup white sugar
  3. 1 teaspoon baking soda
  4. 2 teaspoons baking powder
  5. ½ teaspoon salt
  6. ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  7. ¼ cup butter, melted
  8. 1 egg, lightly beaten
  9. 1 cup buttermilk
  10. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups, or line with paper muffin liners.
  2. Sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg. In a separate bowl, whisk together the melted butter, egg, buttermilk, and vanilla.
  3. Pour the buttermilk mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until mixed (the batter will not be smooth). Gently stir in fruit, if desired (see Cook’s Note).
  4. Scoop the batter into the prepared muffin tins; fill the cups almost to the top. Bake in the preheated oven until golden and the tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 18 minutes.
  5. You can add 1 cup of almost any fruit, nut, or baking chips to this recipe by folding in at the end, and adding spices to match (blueberries and lemon zest, for example, or peeled chopped apples and cinnamon).

Nutrition Facts

Calories 168 kcal
Carbohydrate 28 g
Cholesterol 27 mg
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Protein 4 g
Saturated Fat 3 g
Sodium 338 mg
Sugars 10 g
Fat 5 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Michael Fischer
I liked it. I had only one cup of all-purpose flour left and used whole-wheat for the remainder, which gave them a nutty flavor and nice texture. Because the batter was thick, I used an extra quarter cup or so of buttermilk, which I have on hand since I make my own. I also used egg replacer, which doesn’t always work well with muffins but did with these. Thank you for a great way to use up buttermilk!
David Wyatt
This is a nice basic mix, this time I added blueberries, (I couldn’t wait to try them, yum) next time it’ll be apples and cinnamon, this is a keeper; thanks for sharing
David Dominguez
Consistently good. A no fail recipe.
Marie Vaughn
Great basic recipe and so easy to adjust for different fruit, spices, etc. I used saskatoons and added lemon zest plus 1/4 tsp. of cinnamon. I also used 1 1/4 cups of buttermilk so they wouldn’t be dry with the specified amount of flour. Excellent ‘go to’ recipe!
Daniel Richardson
Used 1/4 cup less flour, 1 teaspoon less baking powder. Used sanding sugar on top before I baked. Baked 18-23 minutes.
Andrew Robbins
Added about 1/4 cup and 1-2 Tbsp of additional liquid. One cup of diced frozen peaches and frozen raspberries. The muffins with a lot of fruit needed about 24 minutes instead of 18.
Jennifer King
DCKatie is correct in Saying this is a good basic muffin that can be adapted. I used lemon extract in place of the vanilla and added 1 tablespoon of lemon zest. To the final batter added one cup of frozen blueberries, I added a little chopped nuts to the muffin tops before popping in the oven. These cooked to perfection with beautiful high peaks. Thank you for sharing I will certainly be baking these again.
Cathy Nash
My husband doesn’t like berries, so I exchanged the blueberries for walnuts. I replaced the white sugar with brown. Super yummy, but a little dry. I’d cut a little flour next time.
Andrew Johnson
I used this recipe to make extra-large muffins. I added frozen blueberries and baked them for about 27 minutes at 375 degrees. They were very good. However, I should have read the reviews first because the dough was so dry that I had trouble incorporating all of the flour. Next time, I’ll reduce the flour to 2 cups and increase the buttermilk by 1/8 – 1/4 cup.
Steven Taylor
Reduced flour to 2 cups per others suggestions. Also, added grated lemon zest. Added coarse sugar on top would have been a nice touch, but forgot. These were the best out of 3 recipes for blueberry muffins I have tried.
Alexander Davis
I loved that it wasn’t very sweet, but the dough was so thick it was hard to pan into the muffin cups….I probably will not make again – the taste was very good though.
Christopher Willis
I made these just as written and found them just ok. I don’t usually add nutmeg to a blueberry muffin and maybe that was one of the reasons the taste just wasn’t the best to me. Some say they turned out dry, but I didn’t have that problem. I also don’t usually like the addition of baking soda when there is already baking powder used. But I think you should always make a recipe as written to express an opinion of it. I will try this one again but with a few changes, then, of course, it will not be the same recipe, will it? I wish people would stop rating a recipe when they actually never made it.
Matthew Brandt
Love this recipe…I added extra vanilla and chocolate chips…will definitely make this one of my go to recipes
Shannon Vasquez
Way too dry. I added extra buttermilk and one extra egg when I saw how dry batter was and it was still too dry. They had no flavour either.
Megan Bartlett
Perfect and tender. I had to take out a couple minutes early but is probably my oven! I made standard cupcake size and used 2 cups of flour.
Thomas Holmes
I really like how you can add almost anything to this recipe and it still manages to taste good!
Terry Dean
This recipe is great. I’ll probably make it again. I’d like people to know that the one cup of apples in it (cook’s note) could not be identified by family members. I’d recommend putting more in. Also, if you put spices in (like cinnamon) put them in the dry ingredients bowl before it’s too late to add it.
Jessica Nguyen
Simple recipe. I had cranberries and eggnog on hand which I substituted for buttermilk and blueberries. I sprinkled white sugar on top, just a little to compliment the tartness of the berries. Yum!
Dalton Hernandez
This was an okay basic recipe. I had to add several things to this to get the moist flavorful muffin I was going for. As it is written, the recipe was dry (too much flour or not enough liquid) I added sour cream, ditched the butter for oil, and added vanilla bean paste instead of plain vanilla. I also added fruit juices to get a pop of flavor and subbed out some of the flour for cocoa ( this with the sour cream makes a knock your socks off double chocolate muffin) Just be aware that this one needs some work to make it impressive. I added 1/4 cup sour cream, subbed out the butter for oil, added an extra tsp of what ever extract you are using and extra cinnamon, nutmeg, or pumpkin pie spice is nice.
Justin Peterson
These were very dry – and I did follow the suggestion of a few other reviewers by reducing the flour to 2 cups and I added another 1/4 cup of buttermilk. They were still quite dry and bland.
Garrett Smith
I should have just used the To Die For Blueberry muffin recipe like usual. These are AWEFUL! Dry, baking soda flavor.

 

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