Amazing mulberry muffin recipe!

Freshly baked mulberry muffins. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

​There is simply nothing like harvesting your own food for tasty recipes! My backyard garden has become one grand experiment to see what I can grow and how to use the plants in homemade recipes. 

But I never even realized there was a berry tree in my yard (planted by previous owners) until a couple of years ago when the branches started hanging down low around the raised garden. It was then that I noticed the purple berry mess covering the ground. After investigating, I discovered that this “annoying” tree was mulberry! 

Mulberries on my mulberry tree. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

This year—rather than letting those ripe berries go to waste in the grass—I decided to pick some and use them in homemade muffins. I searched online and found a simple recipe for blackberry muffins on AllRecipes.com, so I decided to try it out, substituting mulberries for blackberries. Here’s the recipe I followed…

Freshly picked and washed mulberries. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

Dry ingredients:

2 cups flour
2/3 cups sugar
1 TBS baking powder
1/2 tsp salt


Wet ingredients:

1 cup sour cream
1/2 stick butter, softened
2 eggs
1 tsp milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
fresh mulberries


The first step is to carefully wash, dry, and remove the stems of the berries. My fingers turned a lovely shade of purple! These berries DO stain, so be careful what they touch! 

Fingers stained with mulberry juice! Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

Preheat oven to 450˚.

Mix dry ingredients in a bowl.

Two-thirds cup of sugar. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

One tablespoon of baking powder. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

One half teaspoon of salt. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

Two cups of flour. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

​Whisk wet ingredients—except mulberries—in a separate bowl.

Milk, sour cream, butter, and vanilla extract. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

​Whisk dry and wet ingredients together.

Fold in the mulberries, gently.

Bowl of mulberries. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

Mulberries mixed into muffin batter. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

Pour batter into greased muffin pan (or other baking pan of your choice).

Greased muffin pan. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

Muffin batter poured into muffin pan. Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

Bake in oven for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Mulberry muffins finished baking! Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

Now for the taste test…

I can’t say enough about this recipe! The texture was the perfect amount of moisture, not dry like some recipes I’ve tried. And the muffins were not overly sweet either. The sublime sweetness from the mulberries gave the muffins a fresh taste I hadn’t experienced in a while! 

Taste test for the mulberry muffins! Photo by Diane M. Lilly, 2023.

This recipe was a resounding success! In the future, I may substitute mulberries or blackberries for raspberries, blueberries, or bananas. The original link is below if you'd like to try it out. Happy baking!


Original recipe:
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/254923/delicious-blackberry-muffins/?utm_source=pinterest&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shareurlbuttons 

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