The best soft cherry muffins

These soft cherry muffins are sweet and fragrant, quick and easy to prepare, moist and fluffy, they are just perfect muffins with fruit pieces. Their taste and delicate texture comes from the addition of a secret ingredient which is curdled milk. This makes them particularly soft and special. In addition, the recipe is super simple because it only takes two bowls and a fork to mix wet and dry ingredients. You don’t need to use electric whisks, melted butter, yogurt or cream but simple ingredients that we all have at home. You don’t even need any special kitchen tools except of course the muffin pan and paper liners.

Today I have prepared them with cherries but you can prepare these muffins with fresh or frozen blueberries or use other fruits such as strawberries or peaches. Or you can prepare them with chocolate chips or apples, cinnamon and with the addition of a crumble. I just add a sprinkle of granulated sugar which gives a fantastic crunchy and caramelized topping that matches perfectly with the mild fruit flavor.

The best soft cherry muffins

The best soft cherry muffins with a secret ingredient: curdled milk. Soft, fragrant, quick and easy to prepare muffins recipe.

Course Cupcake

Cuisine vegetarian

Keyword cherries, easy muffin, quick muffin, soft muffin

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 30

Total Time 40

Servings muffin (minimum)

Calories 120kcal

Ingredients

120 g cherries weight without pits
120 ml milk at room temperature
1 tablespoon of wine vinegar
1 medium egg
80 ml seed oil I used sunflower oil
1 tsp vanilla extract optional
200 g all-purpose flour
120 g granulated sugar
1 pinch of salt
2 teaspoons of baking powder
white sugar for topping

Instructions

Preparation of soft cherry muffins

For this recipe all the ingredients must be at room temperature.
Take the pits out from your cherries and divide them into four. Set aside.
In a small bowl stir milk with wine vinegar and set it aside to let it curdle for about 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, sift the baking powder with 200 g of all-purpose flour. Add a pinch of salt, then 120 g of sugar and stir.
In the second bowl mix the oil with the curdled milk and an egg. If you like, add a teaspoon of vanilla extract. You can find a super simple recipe for vanilla extract on this blog. It will make your muffins even more special but vanilla extract is optional.
Combine dry and wet ingredients and mix together briefly with a fork to get a very moist mixture. Now add the cherries and incorporate them gently.

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Fluffy muffins with cherries – baking time

Place the paper liners in the muffin pan. Fill them up to 3/4 in hight with the prepared batter or like me up to the rim of the liner. Sprinkle each muffin over the top with a teaspoon of white sugar. Bake in a preheated static oven at 180 ° C for 25 – 30 minutes. If you have filled the cups up to three quarters 25 minutes should be enough. Check if the muffins are ready with a toothpick.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before removing from the pan. Then allow them to cool completely before serving.
These sweet treats are perfect for a snack or for a sweet breakfast.