Light and Fluffy Lemon Cranberry Muffins
You don’t have to be a star baker to whip up these light and fluffy Lemon Cranberry Muffins. Tempt your tastebuds with this zesty and tart flavor combination!
Raise your hand if you love lemons! I cannot get enough of lemons. Of course lemonade is a summer staple, but I love cooking and baking with lemons all year long. They give whatever dish I’m making a sweet, tart burst of flavor. You’ll always find my kitchen stocked with lemons for whatever I’m cooking. Like these Lemon Cranberry Muffins.
Sweet, tart and full of flavor, this is one of my all time favorite muffin recipes. Well, it’s tied with these mini Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cakes. I couldn’t pick a favorite if I had too.
The good thing is, I don’t have too! And neither do you!
Even if baking isn’t your thing, these Lemon Cranberry Muffins are so easy to make. You’ll wonder why you haven’t tried your hand at them sooner!
I love muffins as a grab and go breakfast on busy days and the kids enjoy them as a snack throughout the day. So you’ll always find some sort of muffins baked in my kitchen.
Even when our schedules are busy, this recipe can be made in about 30 minutes making it easy for me to keep fresh, homemade muffins around all the time.
Because let’s be honest, nothing beats homemade!
OTHER MUFFIN RECIPES YOU MIGHT LIKE
If you love muffins like I do, here are some other sweet and savory muffin recipes you might enjoy!
- Pull Apart Cinnamon Roll Muffins
- Blueberry Cinnamon Muffins
- Lemon Blueberry Mini Cakes (while technically not a muffin, you could easily adapt this to make muffins instead)
- Sloppy Joy Cornbread Muffins
And if you’re here because you have a surplus of lemons to use up like I did making this recipe, here are some other lemon recipes that you’re sure to love! These are so of my most popular recipes and it’s no surprise why! They’re just SO good!
- Lemon Pepper Chicken Fajita Salad
- Lemon Garlic Chicken
- Caprese Salad with Lemon Balsamic Dressing
- Honey Garlic Chicken
HOW TO MAKE LEMON CRANBERRY MUFFINS
Don’t worry is baking isn’t your specialty. This Lemon Cranberry Muffin recipe is so easy to make you’ll wonder why you haven’t tried it before!
Lemon Cranberry Muffins
These light and fluffy Lemon Cranberry Muffins are a delicious breakfast or snack. They have a sweet and tart taste you will love!
Ingredients
- 1 cup of fresh cranberries - quartered and halved
- 1 tbsp. lemon zest
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar, plus 1 tbsp.
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1 cup milk
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat over to 350 degrees
- Spray a muffin tin with nonstick spray or line with cupcake liners and set aside
- In a small bowl, toss cranberries, lemon zest and 1 tbsp. of sugar. Set aside
- In a large bowl, whisk together 1/2 cup sugar, eggs, melted butter and oil until combined.
- Add dry ingredients to the wet and stir until just combined
- Fold in cranberry mixture
- Divide the batter between the 12 muffin cups
- Bake for 22-25 minutes or until muffins are golden brown on the edges
- Let cool and enjoy
Happy Baking!!
Dawn
can I ise dreid cranberries in this recipe?