This post is all about how to make scrumptious Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins from scratch. Ones that are tasty, homemade and won’t cost you $2 each!

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Published March 25, 2024
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Why use muffin liners?

Muffin liners can be helpful for SO many recipes. You can use them with muffins, cupcakes, individual brownies, biscuits and much more. Specifically for this recipe, a Gluten Free Muffin recipe, using muffin liners helps the muffins easily remove from the tins.

Sometimes, not always, but sometimes Gluten Free baked goods do NOT like to cooperate once baked. They want to stick terribly to tins, pans, sheets and more. Using parchment paper or liners help with removal of Gluten Free baked goods.

Also, using a liner helps to give them a personal touch rather than just having them “naked”.

Another reason to use liners

Another reason to use liners, and this is a recent one, is because of a newly discovered allergy to silicone. Yay.

With our muffin tray a silicone one, using liners helps my body not to develop an immune response that can be avoided by using muffin liners.

To melt or not to melt?

When the directions on a recipe say to use “melted butter”, they are not talking about melting it and using it right away. This would cause many issues. The first of which would be to add the hot butter to the batter and start cooking your eggs.

Scrambled eggs in muffins? No thank you!

Let that butter cool before adding it to your batters, saving your eggs and sanity.

In addition to melted and cooled butter, this is also a DAIRY FREE butter, making these Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins ALSO Dairy Free!

How to cut butter in?

On the other hand, if your recipe says to “cut the butter in”, this is a different matter.

Cutting butter into a recipe calls for, you got it, two knives. They, one in each hand, you slice the butter with the knives and incorporating it to the dry ingredients. An easier way to do this would be to use a box grater and literally shred the butter right into your dry ingredients. This is what I do personally when making pastry doughs.

Give Brown Sugar a go!

Why use brown sugar instead of white? Brown sugar helps to keep baked goods moister while giving a bolder flavor than just white sugar. Is there a benefit of using brown over white? No, not really. Brown sugar is in fact, regular white sugar blended with molasses. Have you ever wanted to make your own brown sugar? Check out my blog by clicking the link below to find out how to make Brown Sugar yourself!

Brown Sugar DIY

Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins Recipe

Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins Ingredients

• 3 Ripe Bananas
• Dash Salt
• 1 Tbsp Water
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 Egg
• 4 Tbsp Butter, melted and cooled
• 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
• 2 cups Gluten Free Flour
• 1 1/2 cups Frozen Blueberries

Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins Directions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a microwave safe bowl, add 4 Tablespoons butter, then melt in the microwave until just melted. Set aside to cool slightly.

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Make the Gluten Free Muffin batter

In the bowl of a KitchenAid Mixer, peel and then add 3 very ripe bananas. The riper the banana, the more banana flavor you will get in this recipe.

Using the paddle attachment, mix the bananas for 20 seconds on LOW or until mashed well.

To the bowl, add a dash of Salt.

Crack an egg into a separate bowl and then add it to the bananas. Mix on LOW until just combined.

In a small bowl, measure and then add 1 Tbsp water, then measure and add 1 tsp Baking Soda to the water. Mix well and then add to the mixer and mix until just combined on LOW.

Measure and then add 3/4 cups Brown Sugar, mixing on LOW until just combined.

When the butter is cooled, slowly add it to the batter and mix on LOW until just combined.

Add 1 cup of GLUTEN FREE Flour to the batter and mix on LOW until just combined. Do not overmix.

Add the second cup of GLUTEN FREE Flour and mix until just combined.

Finally, add the 1 1/2 cups Frozen Blueberries to the batter and fold them in gently with a spatula.

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Bake the Gluten Free Banana Muffins

Place muffin liners into a cupcake tin and then using a large scoop, measure out equal amounts of batter to each muffin cup.

Using a finger, poke a hole in the center of the muffins and press out gently. This will allow them to bake evenly and not be raw in the center.

Place the muffin tin into the preheated oven and bake until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Bake 12-20 minutes, baking times may vary.

Using potholders, remove the muffin tin from the oven and let the Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins rest for 2 minutes, then remove them from the tin and rest to cool on a rack.

This post was all about how to make scrumptious Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins that are homemade, easy and won’t cost you $2 each.
~Monica

NOTES

Use frozen blueberries for this recipe as fresh will color your batter purple before baking. Frozen blueberries, when individually frozen, are great to store in a freezer safe container or bag in the freezer. Then, when you want to use them in a baked item, you have them ready to measure as they are frozen individually.

To make sure this recipe is GLUTEN FREE, use a GLUTEN FREE Flour.

If you need this recipe to be DAIRY FREE, use a butter alternative like Plant-Based butter.

Cooking times may vary depending on your oven. After 12 minutes, check the Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins by inserting a toothpick into the center of a muffin. If it comes out clean, they should be done. If not, leave them in the oven and cook for 2-5 more minutes and then recheck. A toothpick inserted should come out clean or with very few crumbs attached.

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