Bakery Style Vanilla Muffins Recipe

Moist, Fluffy Vanilla Muffins with the perfect muffin top. Pantry staple ingredients used to create this bakery style muffins which will be a perfect match to serve with morning tea or coffee. As a bonus, No mixer needed!

Bakery Style Vanilla Muffins

I always adore how the muffins which we get in bakeries looks so puffy and domed. Later after few trials and errors created this perfect looking basic muffins. The key for perfect doomed muffins needs few adjustment in measurements also few techniques. I have covered most of my tips and tricks in this blog post.

About Vanilla Muffins Recipe

Sometimes we wonder what is the difference between muffins and cupcakes. Muffins are slightly dense and substantial while cupcakes are softer usually comes with a frosting. This vanilla muffins is one of the basic recipe which you should make and have in your repitore. It is a basic recipe for perfect muffins with muffin top.

Vanilla muffins is made with basic pantry ingredients like flour, baking powder, butter, egg, sugar and oil. You can customise this recipe to your taste preference. Muffins are best served for breakfast with a cup of coffee or tea.

Why you will love this recipe?

• Fast and Easy to make with Affordable ingredients.
• Straight forward recipe with no special equipments required.
• Fluffy, Moist, Perfect Muffin Top muffins everytime.
• Easily adaptable recipe with different flavours & variations.

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Ingredients for Vanilla Muffins

Plain flour

I used plain flour to make this muffins. You can use ½ wheat flour and ½ plain flour. The texture may vary a bit, but it will taste great. I have used the same recipe with slight modifications in my whole wheat chocolate chip muffins recipe.

Sugar

Refined sugar gives the light texture to the muffins. Altering it with brown sugar or honey will change the texture.

Egg

You need to use eggs in this recipe to rise better. I whipped the egg with sugar to create a frothy texture.

Oil & Butter

Small amount of melted butter gives a delicious buttery taste to your muffins. You can skip adding melted butter and use oil instead. But I strongly recommend you to add the butter for flavour.

Baking powder

The amount of leavening agent you add in this should be slightly more than the regular recipes. Follow my measurements to the 'T'and you should be rewarded with the perfect muffins.

How to Make Bakery Style Vanilla Muffins

Pre-Preparation

Preheat oven to 190 degree C. Line a muffin tray with cupcake cases and set aside. Sieve maida, salt, baking powder.

Making Batter

Take egg and sugar in a bowl and beat for 2 minutes till pale and frothy. Add in milk, vanilla, oil and melted butter and whisk till combined. Add in flour mix in and fold gently. Don't over mix the batter.

Filling Muffin Pan

Now use an ice cream scoop and scoop the batter into the muffin cases. Fill right to the top.

Baking

Bake it in oven for 15 to 18 mins. Insert a toothpick to check whether the cake is done. If it comes out clean then it is baked. Remove it from oven and let it cool in the tin for 5 mins. Now remove it from the tin and let it cool on a wire rack.Enjoy warm with a cup of milk.

Success Tips for Perfect Vanilla Muffins & Muffin Top

Achieving perfect muffin top is not rocket science. You need to do few adjustment in measurements also few baking techniques. Here are my tips for domed muffin top.

1)Rest the batter - Make the batter as mentioned. Don't over mix the batter and also rest the batter for 15 mins before baking. This allow the starch molecules to absorb and swell create a thicker batter.

2)Fill every other holes - While filling the batter in muffin pan, fill every other hole in muffin tray, this allows the muffins to rise better without disturbing the other muffins baking.

3)Fill as much as you can - fill your muffin pan super full. use as much batter as you can to pack in the mould. I like to fill it upto the top.

4)Increase Baking Powder - the amount of leavening agent you add in this should be slightly more than the regular recipes. Follow my measurements to the 'T'and you should be rewarded with the perfect muffins.

5)Baking temperature - I found that baking muffins at 220 degree C for the first 7 minutes and then lower the temperature to 180 degree C and continue baking to get perfect muffin top.

Vanilla Muffins Recipe (Step-wise Pictures)

1)Preheat oven to 190 degree C. Line a muffin tray with cupcake cases and set aside.

2)In a sifter, take all purpose flour

3)Add in salt.

4)Add in baking powder. in this recipe you need to add extra baking powder than usual. This step gives perfect puffy muffin dome.

5)Sieve and set aside.

6)Take egg and sugar in a bowl and beat for 2 minutes.

7)The mixture should look foamy and pale yellow in colour. It will never take more than 2 minute to get to this point.

8)Add in oil. I used flavourless refined oil.

9)Add in vanilla extract.

10)Add in milk.

11)Melted butter goes in. The addition of melted butter adds a buttery taste to your muffins.

12)Mix this really well.

13)Add in the sieved flour mixture.

14)Fold in gently so there is no dry flour streaks left. Don't over mix the batter. The batter will look lumpy at this point. But that is okay. A lumpy muffin batter results in lighter and soft muffins.

15)Now use an ice cream scoop and scoop the batter into the muffin cases. Fill right to the top. It should be filled to the top. This gives the muffin dome shape finish once baked.

16)Now bake it in oven for 15 to 18 mins. Insert a toothpick to check whether the cake is done. If it comes out clean then it is baked.

17)Domed Muffin top.

18)Remove it from oven and let it cool in the tin for 5 mins. Now remove muffins from the tin and let it cool on a wire rack. Enjoy warm with a cup of milk. This will stay good for 2 to 3 days at room temp. Store in fridge for upto a week. You can warm it in microwave for few seconds before serving.

Variations for Vanilla Muffins

Vanilla Streusel Muffins

This is a simple plain vanilla muffins which has a crunchy streusel topping which has oats in that. Oatmeal adds a nice crunch factor to the muffins. This muffins taste great warm straight from the oven with a cup of coffee, tea or milk.

For Streusel - Mix ¼ cup(50 grams) butter, ½ cup(100 grams) brown sugar, ½ cup(60 grams) plain flour, ¼ tsp baking powder, ¼ cup instant oats. Sprinkle this over the muffins and bake as mentioned in the recipe.

Vanilla Apple Cinnamon Muffins

I added 1 grated apple, 1 tsp ground cinnamon to the batter and baked as mentioned. This made a delicious warm cinnamon flavored apple muffins perfect for fall.

Banana Raisin Muffins

If you have some over ripe banana on hand. instead of throwing them away, mash and fold them into the batter. For some chewy texture and contrast of colour, i added 3 tbsp of black raisins. You can add any chopped nuts too.

Frequently Asked Questions ?(FAQ)

What is the secret to moist muffins?

Never over mix your batter. Leave your muffin batter lumpy. Adding a combination of melted butter and oil makes your muffins moist.

How do you get the high top muffins?

Adding enough baking powder, baking at high temperature, over filling your muffin moulds are the secret tips for perfect muffin tops.

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