These soft and moist lemon blueberry muffins with sour cream are bursting with fresh blueberries and lemon flavor. They’re drizzled with a delicious lemon glaze.
I love the combination of lemon and blueberry! Other favorites are this lemon blueberry dutch baby recipe and lemon blueberry zucchini bread.
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Lemon Blueberry Muffin Recipe
These lemon blueberry muffins with sour cream have the best light and refreshing flavor for Spring and Summer. While I love these blueberry muffins and my recipe for blueberry coffee cake there is something about blueberries and lemon that adds the best fresh flavor to muffins or bread.
The sour cream that’s included makes them so soft and moist. Plus the glaze on top adds the perfect sweet touch just like with my lemon poppy seed bread. Not to mention how pretty it makes them look, too. You must try them! They are totally worth it.
Ingredients
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
- Lemons: The lemons really are the star of these lemon-blueberry muffins Make sure to pick nice and juicy ones to bring out the lemon flavor from the juice and zest. You don’t want to use the jarred stuff.
- Blueberries: You can use fresh or frozen, however, if you are using frozen do not thaw them. Add straight from the freezer or they’ll create too much juice.
- Sour Cream: The sour cream is what helps these muffins become so soft and tender. You could also swap for Greek yogurt if preferred.
How to Make Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Whisk flour, salt, and baking powder in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together the milk, vegetable oil, egg, sugar, juice, vanilla, lemon zest, and sour cream. Combine with dry ingredients and fold in blueberries with a spatula.
Fill a muffin tin with paper liners 2/3 the way full and add a few blueberries on top. Bake until the tops bounce back.
You can enjoy the muffins plain or mix up the lemon glaze and drizzle over top. Let cool on a wire rack to help cool the muffins evenly.
Lemon Glaze
Although the glaze is optional, I highly recommend it! It takes the muffins up a notch and adds just the right amount of sweetness to balance out the bright citrus flavor.
To make the glaze mix together 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1/2 to 1 Tablespoon lemon juice in a small bowl. You could also replace the lemon juice with milk to make a classic powdered sugar glaze if preferred.
Tips and Variations
- Use fresh blueberries. Trust me, this makes these the best blueberry lemon muffins. They taste amazing and are bursting with fresh flavor.
- Sour cream. This is the secret to super moist muffins! The extra fat content makes them so soft and gives them a rich flavor.
- Lemon zester. Use a zester to easily and quickly zest your lemon. Learn how to zest a lemon with these simple tips.
- Don’t overfill. Fill the muffin cups 2/3 of the way full. If you fill any further, the muffins will overflow.
- Decorate. Before baking, add a few extra fresh blueberries to each muffin cup. This will make your muffins look extra pretty.
- Topping: Before baking, sprinkle a crumble topping over the batter or add a sprinkle of granulated sugar for a sweeter, crispier top.
- Let cool. Make sure the muffins have cooled completely before drizzling with the glaze. You don’t want it to melt!
Love blueberry recipes? Try this blueberry jam, blueberry pancakes, or blueberry sauce recipe!
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Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Ingredients
Muffins
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ⅓ cup milk
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- ⅔ cup sour cream
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 Tablespoon lemon zest
- ⅓ cup lemon juice , about 2 lemons
- ½ teaspoons vanilla or almond extract
- 1 cup blueberries
Glaze
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1/2-1 Tablespoon lemon juice
Instructions
Muffins
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Fill cupcake pan with liners, or use cooking spray to grease them.
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, salt, and baking powder.
- In a large bowl, whisk together milk, oil, egg, sour cream, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and vanilla. Add the flour mixture and stir until smooth. Fold in the blueberries.
- Fill cupcake liners about 2/3 the way full. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove muffins from pan and let cool completely.
Glaze
- In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Drizzle over muffins.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Recipe FAQs
This will prevent the blueberries from sinking to the bottom of the muffins. It’s not a necessity, but is an easy extra step you can take to ensure you have the best lemon blueberry muffins!
Simply mix the fresh blueberries with about 1 Tablespoon flour, then gently fold them into the batter.
Both work fine, although I prefer to use vegetable oil when making these muffins because it tends to create a more moist and tender texture than butter. Melt butter ahead of time to help give that moist texture to the batter.
I use sour cream as the secret ingredient for many recipes such as banana bread, my strawberry sour cream cake, and the best chocolate cupcake recipe. The acidity in the sour cream will make your baked goods super moist, with a soft and tender texture.
After the muffins have cooled completely, place them in an airtight container or bag. They will stay fresh at room temperature for 3 to 4 days.
Blueberry lemon muffins are best frozen without the glaze. Place in a freezer bag or container and freeze for up to 2 months. Reheat in the microwave for 15 to 30 seconds until warm.
Categorized as: American, Bread, Breakfast, Freezer-Friendly, Kid-Friendly, Muffins, Muffins, Snacks
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.
I don’t normally review recipes, but these muffins turned out so well I had to! They are moist, springy, and were as tangy and lemony as I was hoping for! I used yogurt because that’s what I had in the house, frozen blueberries, and I just zested the two lemons (I think that wound up just being half a tablespoon, but they were still wonderful). I tried a muffin before I made the glaze and decided that it didn’t even need it they were so good. Lots of compliments my hubby and friends:) Make these!!!
This makes me so happy to hear! Thank you for your nice comment and review. So glad the muffins were such a hit!
My family devours these muffins! So great for a light summer treat! The lemon and blueberry are so fresh and zesty! We are a dozen in 2 hours… oops! So good!!!
Love to hear this!! Thanks so much for your nice comment, Miranda :)
Thank you! I have been trying all different muffin recipes and felt like I must be doing something wrong because they always came out dry I was getting so discouraged. BUT I tried your recipe and these are the best muffins I have ever made!!!! I will stick with your recipe and they went so fast I am going to make another batch today! Thanks again! Btw I used half blueberry yogurt and half the sour cream.
Yay I’m so happy to hear this, Sandy! Half blueberry yogurt and half sour cream sounds delicious :)
Made these for breakfast and will enjoy the leftovers for snack. Thanks for the recipe!
What a great recipe for spring! These muffins are the best in the morning with a hot cup of coffee.
The perfect Spring breakfast :)
My middle still looks uncooked but it’s been on more than 25 minutes already! Anyone else have this issue? :(
next time try moving the oven rack up one! closer to the top, this may help :)
I love the idea of adding fresh blueberries into muffins so creative.
These muffins look amazing. Definitely trying it soon.
Oooh…I love these! These are on my must-make list!
Lemon and Blueberry are meant for each other.
These muffins will be great to have on hand this week.
Oh my, these muffins are everything!! YUM!!
This looks so delicious! Lemon & blueberry make for such a wonderful pair!
Those are gorgeous looking muffins! Love all those berries in them!
These look so easy and delicious! Absolutely making some for breakfast tomorrow
My kids will love these muffins!
So yummy! They were really moist and my kiddos ate them without complaining, mostly because of the sweet, sugary glaze:)
Just wondering if the extract is mandatory, I have everything but that?!? Could I just use more lemons??
Hi Donna! Yes, you could just use more lemons! Lemon extract has a stronger flavor but I’m sure your muffins will still turn out just as great! :)