Easy breakfast muffins are a convenient grab-and-go easy breakfast option made with only a few ingredients, one bowl and a spoon. These easy breakfast muffins are a great way to start the day!
I love easy muffin recipes! Other family favorites include apricot yogurt muffins, applesauce muffins and banana bread muffins.
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Easy Breakfast Muffins
When mornings are super hectic and busy, I love to have a quick and easy grab-and-go breakfast. This easy muffin recipe is one of my favorite recipes, along with banana nutella muffins, blueberry muffins, and chocolate chip zucchini muffins.
I absolutely love this plain muffin recipe! Not only are they absolutely delicious, but they have only a few ingredients and use one bowl and spoon. Double score! Store extras in a sealed container then heat up for a grab-and-go breakfast or snack.
Homemade Breakfast Muffins Ingredients
Homemade muffins are so easy to make and come together quickly and easily in just a few steps. Combine the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients making a simple and basic breakfast muffin recipe. You will be making batches of these muffins!
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
- All-purpose flour: This gives the muffins stability and thickness with the flour.
- Sugar: Adds a hint of sweetness!
- Baking powder: Fluffs up and helps the muffins raise in the oven as it is baking.
- Salt: Just a pinch will help aid the baking powder and help balance the flavors.
- Eggs: Binds the batter together giving it color, texture, and structure.
- Vegetable oil: Moisture is added to the muffin mixture using oil and milk.
- Milk: Gives a creamy and soft texture to the muffin batter and when they are baked.
How to Make Breakfast Muffins
This breakfast muffin recipe is SO easy! Just follow the simple steps below to get started. Scroll down for the printable easy muffins recipe and video tutorial.
- Dry ingredients. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt and whisk together.
- Wet ingredients. Add in eggs, oil, and milk and mix only until combined. Don’t beat or over-mix! If you over mix your muffins will become tough and dry.
- Add to muffin tin and bake. Scoop into prepared muffin pan (I like to use a large cookie scoop) and bake for 15-20 minutes.
- Bake. Once the muffins are golden and tops spring back when you press on them or a toothpick comes clean.
For Serving + Variations
These easy homemade muffins are the base for making something great! Take this breakfast recipe and create the variation or several that works best for you and your family!
- Toppings: Spread strawberry jam on top.
- Spreads: Add a smear of peanut butter, cinnamon butter or apple butter, or peanut butter.
- Egg muffins: Make it savory and add a slice of cheddar cheese, eggs, and a piece of bacon to the center of a muffin.
- Sweet: We also love to add 1/2 cup of cinnamon chips (I like the ones from King Arthur Flour Or Gygi). Chocolate chips are great, but I often save those for banana mini muffins!
- Nuts: Adding in walnuts or pecans gives these muffins a boost!
- Mixed fruit: These also taste great with fresh fruit mixed in like blueberries, strawberries, or peaches.
5 star review
“I made these yesterday and threw in some fresh fruit salad (strawberries, blueberries, bits of chopped granny smith apples, shredded coconut) and a teaspoon or two of lemon juice. I sprinkled cinnamon on top.”
-Ashley
Recipe FAQs
Homemade muffins are a great source of a healthy breakfast. These have pantry staples mix together making this base muffin recipe that is perfect for a healthy and delicious breakfast.
Fresh fruit, eggs, and bacon, or yogurt on the side. This makes for the perfect combination of a complete meal!
Cakes and muffins are both baked recipes. Muffins are made of a form of bread whereas cakes have more sugar and are sweeter.
Yes, these breakfast muffins freeze great! Make sure to cool them completely, then add them to a freezer bag or airtight container. They will keep in the freezer for about 2 to 3 months. To reheat them, simply allow them to thaw overnight or warm in the microwave for 15-30 seconds wrapped in a damp paper towel.
Storing Simple Muffins
Once the muffins have cooled on wire racks, place them in an airtight container and store in a dry area.
Do you love the ease of making delicious muffins?! Try some of my favorite muffins like these morning glory muffins, snickerdoodle muffins, or these zucchini muffins.
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Easy Muffin Recipe
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Ingredients
- 2 cups (260 g) all-purpose flour
- ½ cup (98g) granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs , beaten
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup milk
Optional mix-in's: 1/2 cup blueberries, chocolate chips or cinnamon chips
For serving: butter and jam
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400º F. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners or spray each cup with cooking spray. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and stir together.
- Add in eggs, oil and milk and mix only until combined, don’t beat or over mix or they will be dry! Fold in 1/2 cup mix-in's if desired.
- Scoop into prepared muffin tin and bake for 15-18 minutes or just until golden and a toothpick comes clean. Serve with butter and jam.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Recipe originally written by our contributor Jen from Yummy Healthy Easy.
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
These are the best! ESP for busy mornings on the go.
Adding these to my weekend plans! Yum!
Super easy, super yummy! Two thumbs up!
I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
I tried this Muffin recipe and all my family member also like it very much so please keep sharing.
they were super easy and fun to make, but they tasted absolutely horrible!
Tried this recipe. It’s amazing! My new go to muffins with a simple taste they’re great to add a lemony glaze or a cinnamon twist or just to have with some yogurt and fresh fruit! Enjoyed by all my guests can’t wait to try more recipes from here.
I’m so glad you enjoyed these! Thanks for your comment and review. I can’t wait to try these with a lemon glaze or cinnamon twist. :)
I love the flavor and easy of making the batter, however the 400 degree temperature does NOT work with my aluminum Wilton cupcake/ muffin pan. Especially if I don’t have cupcake/ muffin papers. I have turned the temp down to 390 degrees and still the sides and bottom are CHARRED! Next time maybe 350 degrees?? So frustrating with a limited budget for a large family! I use as much organic, good quality products as possible.
I’m sorry you are getting burnt muffins. Every oven cooks things so differently! I would definitely recommend turning down the oven and also try decreasing the time and just checking them with a toothpick!
Just started eating b/fast at 66yrs. Didn’t want to start my day eating sweet so I cut down the sugar, added real bacon (crumbled) & shredded cheese. Some fine cut chives on top. Yummy. Previous comment said success with gf flour. Neighbour will be pleased (me not so much as I make the muffins). I guess a double batch (gf 1st) won’t kill me. LOL
Made them for my granddaughter, she loved them and so did I
So glad you both loved them! :)
Made this for a picky child, he ate it right up. They smell delicious baking. For me they are a hair too sweet, but I am more of a savory person. I wonder if they might be good with some cheese and herbs. Anyway, thanks for a very good and easy recipe.
I’m so glad he liked it! I haven’t tried making this a savory muffin but that sounds delicious! I would love to know how it goes if you try it. :)
I am a super taster and I can’t eat anything with any kind of sugar or I will hurl. Can I leave it out? I’d like to try these but I know they will be to sweet for me. Is there anything that isn’t sweet that I can add as a substitute? I might just make them for my mom just the way they are anyway but I would like to eat some too.
This is an awesome recipe! I added some pumpkin, spices and some cottage cheese to give them a little texture. They are so good. I did also reduce the eggs to just one egee and the are still very tasty! Thanks for the recipe. I can see adding all kinds of things to these.
Sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing. I’m definitely going to have to try adding pumpkin and spices this Fall!
My 11 year old nephew spent the weekend with us so I whipped up a batch of these yesterday morning for the first time. He ate at least half of them by himself and I got a “My compliments to the chef!” I made a double batch this morning and sent him home with a goody bag! ? Thank you for a keeper! So easy and so good!
I’m so glad they were a hit! We love them with butter and jam! :)
Made these today for the first time, with and without blueberries.
They are so simply delicious either way!!! What a great recipe! And so easy and fast. Might be the first recipe that I actually have all the ingredients at home already ?
Wish I could post a picture of how beautifully they turn out!!
Absolutely loved these!! Quick and Easy?
So easy and extremely tasty! I was out of eggs so substituted half of a ripe banana and they were delicious!
OMG these are so easy to make and taste amazing!!!!! I’m only 12 and made these with ease! Love them love them love them
Thanks!
What type of oil do you use?
I use organic canola oil, but you can use whatever flavor-less oil you like. :)