Starbucks Low Fat Blueberry Muffin Recipe

Do you enjoy Starbucks Blueberry Muffins? We think these are even better! They're moist, delicious, loaded with juicy blueberries and they rise up high, with beautiful domed tops!

When traveling, we often enjoy Starbucks Blueberry Muffins for a breakfast treat. I decided to try to come up with a copycat version and we think these are even better. All of our taste-testers agree!

And since we first published this recipe, back in 2019, we've had lots of new tasters and recipe testers. Here are a few of their reviews:

Bakery Style Blueberry Muffins

And the comments go on and on. I love that one reader shared that she used gluten-free flour and they turn out wonderful:

So this has become my go-to recipe for other muffins too. I use the same base recipe for these Fresh Strawberry Muffins.

And also these fabulous Peach Crumble Muffins. It's one of those never-fail recipes that always produces beautiful muffins with pretty rounded domes.

One Of These Blueberry Muffins? The Ones You Buy At Safeway Or Starbucks Or Something, Not Homemade.

You probably have pretty much everything you need to make these Better than Starbucks Blueberry muffins. Besides blueberries, the ingredients for these muffins are common household staples; flour, sugar, butter, eggs, buttermilk, baking powder and soda and salt.

I tried some recipes calling for oil and some for butter and found that butter gave the muffins better flavor and a nice crumb texture. The butter is melted in this recipe so you don't have to worry about taking it out of the fridge ahead of time to soften.

Buttermilk owes its success as a baking ingredient to its acidity. It’s not nearly as sour as lemon juice or vinegar, of course, but the milder lactic acid present in buttermilk makes it a real boon to bakers. A slightly acidic batter helps keep baked goods moist and tender by breaking down long, tough strands of gluten.

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Its tartness adds a delicious but subtle tang to cakes and pastries and its thick consistency adds a rich, creamy quality to baked goods. The acid in buttermilk helps with leavening. Together with baking soda, it produces carbon dioxide, which why pancakes and other baked goods made with buttermilk rise much higher than those with regular cow's milk.

I could tell you how easy these muffins are, with just one bowl and no mixer needed, but I think showing you is even better. So here's a video of these Better than Starbucks Muffins being made:

Several of the recipes I tried while working on these Better than Starbucks Muffins were good, but not so pretty. I love a muffin with a rounded, domed top in lieu of those that rise up, but then flatten and spill over the sides of the muffin cups.

Starbucks Low Fat Blueberry Muffins

So how do you achieve the high, domed tops? Well, part of it is the recipe itself and the proportions of flour, sugar and leavening agents, but there are a few tricks that help create these beauties:

In addition to being super delicious and really pretty, these muffins are WAY cheaper than the ones you buy at the green and white store. A Starbucks blueberry muffin is about $2.95. It will cost you less than $5.00 for a dozen of these Copycat Starbuck's Blueberry Muffins. See what I mean? A big bonus (in addition to your kitchen smelling like a fine bakery)! Put this recipe on your Must-Make-Soon list!

P.S. Want a good laugh? Check out this blueberry muffin recipe from the first few months of the blog back in 2011. Scott was at work so I took the pictures for these muffins (yikes!!). I think you'll totally understand why I cook these days and Scott is the resident photographer! Then again, if you looked at Scott's cooking you'd totally understand why I cook these days and he is the resident photographer, we're quite symbiotic!!

Starbucks Blueberry Muffin Recipe: Copycat

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These easy, one-bowl, no-mixer muffins are similar to Starbuck's Blueberry Muffins. They're moist, delicious, loaded with juicy blueberries and they rise up high, with beautiful domed tops!

Paleo Blueberry Muffin Recipe

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Copycat Starbucks Blueberry Muffins are actually so easy to make right at home, for a fraction of the cost! Skip the drive thru and enjoy a healthier and cheaper version of your coffee shop favorite. I make these muffins using dairy-free ingredients, but follow my ingredients notes for tips and tricks!

Dairy Free Blueberry Muffins

Step 2: Mix the oat milk, vegan melted butter, purecane sugar substitute (or regular sugar), baking powder, vanilla and baking soda together. Then, add the flour and mix until a thick batter forms. Fold in the blueberries.

Step 3: Line about 12 muffin wells with paper liners. Spoon the batter into the muffin wells until they are about ⅔ full. Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until the muffins have completely risen and are golden on the tops.

Step 4: Enjoy warm, spread with vegan butter. These vegan copycat Starbucks blueberry muffins store well in an airtight container at room temperature. They will be about 145 calories each if you use purecane, or 192 calories each if using regular cane sugar. Compared to Starbucks (coming in at 330 calories), both options are a calorie steal!

Yummy And (almost) Healthy Blueberry Muffins

Nope! Unfortunately, the Starbucks blueberry muffins are not vegan. That is why I set out to make a healthier, vegan version of the coffee shop favorite.

There's nothing better than the smell of homemade blueberry muffins! These copycat Starbucks Blueberry Muffins are vegan, can be made gluten free, sugar-free, and are absolutely delicious! With under 200 calories per muffin, this is a lighter and healthier version of a bakery classic that the whole family will love!

The recipes on Peanut Butter and Jilly can easily be adapted to fit a vegan lifestyle, a gluten-free lifestyle, or both depending on the ingredients you use. Please review the ingredients lists carefully and refer to our recommendations in the Notes of the recipe card to make this recipe compatible with your needs. Nutrition information provided is an estimate, and will vary based on specific brands of ingredients used and cooking methods.If you're a fan of Starbucks Blueberry Muffins, you'll be delighted to know that you can easily make a copycat recipe at home. With juicy blueberries, a zesty lemon flavor, and a golden crinkly top, these muffins are sure to become a staple in your baking repertoire. They will make your entire home smell like a bakery, and best of all, you can make this Starbucks blueberry muffins recipe for a fraction of the cost of buying them at a coffee shop.

Starbucks Copycat Blueberry Muffins • Foodnservice

I wanted to make these muffins as close to bakery muffins as possible. To do this, I made these into jumbo muffins instead of regular-sized muffins. I used a jumbo muffin pan like this one that I purchased on Amazon.

I also used these brown tulip-styled paper liners to line the muffin cups for my muffins. I think that tulip liners give muffins a lovely bakery-style aesthetic and make them look so pretty! This is optional, however, and you can use any style of muffin liner you prefer. 

Another thing that I did to make these muffins extra tall and fluffy, is to fill the muffin cups to the top with muffin batter. I also topped them with extra blueberries to make them even juicier and with raw cane sugar to give the muffins a delicious and sweet crinkly top.

Starbucks Blueberry Muffins Recipe

For this recipe, I definitely recommend using fresh blueberries over frozen ones. Frozen blueberries are incredible in baking, and so much cheaper than fresh. However, I've found that when I actually used frozen blueberries in this recipe, the purple color from the blueberries bleeds into the batter and I ended up with blue blueberry muffins. This is not necessarily bad, and the taste is still just as incredible! But I do much prefer the light golden