Oat & Berry Muffins Recipe with Frozen Fruit (2024)

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Can frozen fruit be used in muffins? ›

When mixing frozen fruit into cake or muffin batter, small, still-frozen pieces work better. Keeping the fruit frozen eliminates the possibility of smushing them into your batter while mixing (ultimately turning your beautiful batter red or purple), and keeping the fruit small keeps that distribution even.

If using frozen berries, don't thaw first!

Not only because that can mean death to a nice fluffy muffin, but it also can decimate the blueberries leaving the batter (and your soul) with sad, blue streaks.

We recommend adding 1/2 to 1 cup of fresh or frozen (thawed and drained) fruit. Gently fold into the batter. Bake as directed.

Healthy Blueberry Muffin Recipe Ingredients

The whole wheat flour adds more fiber and nutrients than the all-purpose would on its own, but using part all-purpose helps ensure that the muffins come out light and fluffy, not dense. Almond flour – It gives the blueberry muffins a delicious moist texture.

When berries are out of season, unavailable or way too expensive, you can substitute frozen mixed berries (no need to thaw). Here's a tip I picked up from The Kitchn on baking with berries: Roll Frozen berries lightly in a small bowl of flour and add them to the batter.

Muffins, scones, cake, and coffeecake are quite another, frozen berries bleeding juice into batter to turn these golden-hued beauties a sickly shade of purple-green. This doesn't have to happen, you know. There's a simple solution. Rinse your frozen blueberries before you use them.

Coating berries with flour helps them suspend in the batter and prevents them from all sinking to the bottom. Taking this step also keeps the berries from turning your batter blue.

Eggs are responsible for giving baked goods structure, which means the amount you use directly affects the resulting texture. Using too few eggs will make your desserts dense, but using too many will make them rubbery.

Tip #1: Keep your frozen fruits frozen

First, most fruits are about 90% water and usually frozen at their peak ripeness. If you defrost them, thawed fruits will add excess liquid to your ingredients, making pies and desserts runny right from the start.

The best bakery-style crumb muffins start with cake flour

Cake flour is more finely ground and has less protein, which leaves the muffins with a fine, light crumb and soft texture. Using cake flour is an easy way to avoid heavy, dense muffins even if you end up stirring just a bit too much. What is this?

Is it healthy to eat muffins everyday? ›

Most store-bought muffins are like glorified cupcakes—they're full of sugar and simple carbs. "They can be packed with added sugar and low in fiber, sending your blood sugar levels on a roller coaster before you even get to work," says Charlotte Martin, MS, RDN, CSOWM, CPT.

If you over mix muffin batter then you will likely end up with dense rubbery muffins. When baking muffins you want to mix the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients and stir only until they are just combined.

Frozen fruit and vegetables are a great option. They're less expensive, longer lasting, and they often have as many nutrients and as much flavor as fresh. Don't let unnecessary fear mongering make you feel like you only have to buy fresh produce.

Most fruit can be added to recipes straight from the freezer, but you might prefer to use fresh fruit to garnish. Now you know how to freeze and defrost fresh fruit, it's time to put your skills to practice and try out one of these delicious fruity recipes.

This means frozen fruit is safe to eat for 8-10 months beyond the printed date on an unopened package. But… the fruit will not stay safe indefinitely. Signs that frozen fruit has gone bad, rotten, or spoiled include discoloration (dull color) and a frostbitten appearance with white colored ice crystals.