Easy Blueberry Muffins for Kids to Make

As we have said before, we genuinely thank the person who decided to call mini-cakes muffins. In the category of banana bread, these easy blueberry muffins for kids are delightfully sweet, while still passing as a “healthy” breakfast. This way when your Mom asks you if you have had any fruit today, you can confidently answer with a yes.

Kids Making Blueberry Muffins

When we started reading this recipe, we were surprised that the directions did not have you separate the dry ingredients from the wet. We read it a couple of times and decided that while this baker managed to mix the dry ingredients on top of the wet, that felt a bit risky for kids. So we went with the standard practice of mixing the wet separately.

I think we may have found a new science experiment to research. As we were running low on butter, we used one stick that was salted and one that was unsalted. Isn’t it interesting to see how they melted differently? We could not remember what one was which. Any ideas?

As we learned from our chocolate chip muffin experiment, muffins do not like to be over-mixed as they can become dense. The original recipe was hand mixed, but it just felt so much easier for us to use the stand mixer. We went that route instead hoping it would not make them tough.

We decided to use our homemade yogurt instead of sour cream. To not over-mix, we used the stand mixer for only a few seconds before stopping it and scraping down the sides.

All of us in this house are not huge blueberry fans, so we lowered the amount as it seemed like there would be too many otherwise. Being that we are kids, we prefer to taste the cake muffin part, with just a side of blueberries. You can adjust this to your liking.

Our Next Experiment

As the sun was shining, it was time to hurry up this blueberry muffin making process. I quickly added them into the muffin tins, threw some sugar on them, and ran out the door.

And boy did they look funny in the pans. I really hoped they would rise in the oven and look better after baking.

To our delight, these turned out just lovely. This recipe seemed to be very forgiving of our experiments. It was worth the effort to have mini cakes for breakfast tomorrow.

Since we always double a muffin recipe due to how many we eat at once, feel free to cut the amounts in half from the recipe below. But we think if you go through so much effort, might as well have some to keep in the freezer for a quick breakfast treat.