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Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops

June 27, 2019

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Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops on a baking sheet with a grey background.

I came home from church Sunday afternoon and was craving something soft, sweet, and bright! These Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops were the very happy result of that craving. They were so delicious and easy to make, I had to share them with you all right away!

Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops on a baking sheet with a grey background with fresh lemons and blueberries.

Somewhere between a muffin, a scone, and a cookie, these Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops absolutely melt in your mouth. They are light, creamy, moist, and bursting with blueberries!

Blueberry and lemon are such a great combo, especially to celebrate summer! If you love blueberry and lemon too, you’ll love my Lemon Ricotta Pancakes and my Lemon Blueberry Greek Yogurt Muffins.

Close up shot of a Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffin Top on parchment paper.

If you glance down at the recipe, you’ll notice I used the “Melted Butter in Chilled Cream” method. The butter forms small globules in the chilled cream. When this is mixed into the batter, these tiny beads of butter will heat up in the oven, make steam, and form air pockets in the tender muffin tops.

Close up shot of the inside of a halved Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffin Top with fresh blueberries in the background.

These are best mixed by hand. We don’t want to overwork the batter or crush the blueberries. Once they come out of the oven, let them cool and then drizzle them with a lemony glaze. Heaven! Enjoy friends and happy summer.

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Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops on a baking sheet with a grey background.

Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops

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  • Author: Julie
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 minutes
  • Total Time: 35 minutes
  • Yield: 18 muffin tops 1x
  • Category: Breakfast
  • Method: Bake
  • Cuisine: American
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Description

Somewhere between a muffin, a scone, and a cookie, these Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops absolutely melt in your mouth.


Ingredients

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For the Muffin Tops

  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons melted butter
  • zest of one lemon
  • 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 heaping cup fresh blueberries

For the Glaze

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon heavy cream
  • pinch of salt
  • water by the 1/2 teaspoon, as needed to thin to a drizzling consistency

Instructions

For the Muffin Tops

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. Measure out 1/2 cup of heavy cream plus 1/2 cup of milk together, and place in the freezer to chill for 5-10 minutes.
  3. In the meantime, mix all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt into a medium bowl and whisk together.
  4. Melt butter and pour into the chilled milk and cream.  
  5. Add cream mixture to flour mixture, along with the lemon zest, lemon juice, and vanilla extract.  Stir until just combined.  
  6. Gently fold in blueberries.
  7. Scoop batter onto the baking sheet.  I use a spring-loaded ice cream scoop to drop about 2 heaping tablespoons of batter per muffin top, 12 per baking sheet.  
  8. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes.  Transfer to a cooling rack, and then drizzle the glaze over each cooled muffin top.  The glaze will harden as it cools.

For the Glaze

  1. In a small bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, lemon juice, heavy cream and salt.  Add water by the 1/2 teaspoonful, whisking as you go, until the glaze is a drizzling consistency.


Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 Muffin Top
  • Calories: 149
  • Sugar: 13g
  • Sodium: 128mg
  • Fat: 4.9g
  • Saturated Fat: 3g
  • Unsaturated Fat: 1.5g
  • Trans Fat: 0.2g
  • Carbohydrates: 25g
  • Fiber: 0.7g
  • Protein: 2g
  • Cholesterol: 14mg

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Filed Under: Bread, Breakfast, Dessert, Snacks

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Comments

  1. Kathy B says

    July 4, 2019 at 5:57 pm

    Loved these!

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    • Kathy B says

      July 5, 2019 at 9:39 am

      Meant to also say – these reminded me of madeleine cakes without needing a special pan.

      Reply
      • Julie says

        July 6, 2019 at 12:11 pm

        Wonderful!

        Reply
      • Zora A Santelices says

        April 10, 2020 at 9:35 am

        I don’t have heavy cream. Can I use half n half?

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