Blueberry Cottage Cheese Muffins

4.67 from 27 votes

Blueberry Cottage Cheese Muffins

These Blueberry Cottage Cheese Muffins are soft, moist and higher in protein. The best meal prep breakfast and snack for grab-and-go!

Prep Time15

Cook Time20

Total Time35

Course: Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Breakfast, loaves and muffins

Servings: muffins

Ingredients

¼ cup milk
1 cup cottage cheese I like using 1%
2 eggs
2 tablespoon olive oil
½ cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1.5 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 cup blueberries tossed in flour *see notes

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400F and prepare a 12-cavity muffin tray ( highly recommend using a silicone muffin tray).
To a blender add milk, cottage cheese, eggs, olive oil, honey and vanilla extract. Blend until smooth.
To a separate large bowl whisk together flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Slowly whisk the blended wet ingredients into the dry. Fold in the blueberries using a spatula until just combined. Be careful not to overmix.
Divide the batter amongst the 12 muffin cavities (I use a ¼ cup muffin scoop). If there is any remaining batter, divide it amongst the cups. Bake for about 10 minutes at 400℉, before reducing the temperature to 350℉ and baking for another 10-12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the largest muffin comes out clean. (DO NOT open the oven in between this helps keep the heat inside the oven). Allow to cool before enjoying.

Notes

We start at a temperature of 400F to help the muffins RISE, I find cottage cheese weighs down the batter slightly so to avoid concave muffins this step is crucial! Once the start to rise we decrease the temperature to 350F to continue the baking!

I recommend using fresh blueberries for best results. I like to toss my blueberries in about 2 tablespoon of flour prior to adding them to the batter. This just helps ensure they don't all sink to the bottom of the muffins.

2 tablespoon of olive oil can be replaced with 2 tablespoon of melted butter.

*I have included an estimation of the nutrition information for this recipe below. However, always remember a recipe is so much more than just nutritional content and these numbers do not need to dictate your food choices. Please don't forget that both your body and soul need nourishment! The owner of this website is not liable for this estimation.

Nutrition

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