Vanilla Muffins | Bakery Style Vanilla Muffins

Vanilla Muffins is light fluffy and tasty for breakfast or for snack. Vanilla muffins recipe with step by step pictures & video. Learn how to make perfectly domed and puffed Bakery Style Vanilla Muffins Recipe either using all purpose flour or using wheat flour.

Vanilla Muffin is a delicious, spongy cake made using few available ingredients. This Bakery Style Vanilla Muffin can be made in minutes and a wonder bloomed in paper liners.

About Vanilla Muffins Recipe

I started baking Bakery Style Vanilla Muffin by using store bought All Purpose Flour (Maida) as the primary ingredient a decade back. Now this recipe has evolved with lot of changes to the primary ingredient such as homemade maida, mix of homemade maida & wheat flour in different ratios and these days with 100% wheat flour. The beauty of the recipe is that all the versions get us tasty & spongy muffins.

Vanilla Muffins 2 Variations

I have posted 2 variations – Vanilla muffin with all purpose flour & Vanilla muffin with wheat flour for your easy reference & to try both variations.

If you have just started baking, vanilla muffins is a good choice to gain experience, try lot of variations and move on to next level of cake baking.

Eggless Versions

I have also posted eggless versions of vanilla muffins that you can check out.

• Vanilla Yogurt Muffins
• Whole Wheat Vanilla Muffins

Why this Bakery Style Vanilla Muffins Recipe works?

• Easy to make
• Simple ingredients
• Works both with All Purpose Flour & Wheat Flour
• Can be done in less than an hour from scratch to mouth
• Recipe tried & liked by lot of readers

Vanilla Muffins Ingredients

• Flour: Use All Purpose Flour / Refined Wheat Flour / Maida if you have no limitations to gluten! Else suggest using homemade Wheat Flour or store bought wheat flour.
• Vanilla Extract:  The Vanilla extract determines the flavour & aroma of the muffin – Homemade vanilla extract or store bought vanilla extract can be used for this recipe.
• Baking Soda & Baking powder: Baking soda & Baking powder are the leavening agents. Use just the prescribed quantity for a spongy, soft muffin.
• Butter : Use homemade butter or store bought butter. If it is store bought, make sure it is not salted. Melt the butter and cool down to room temperature before using it in the recipe.
• Sugar, Eggs & Milk : Suggest to use white sugar, white / brown eggs and boiled & cooled milk. Cane sugar is an healthy alternative but it will have a slight impact on the taste, texture and you may have to increase the quantity accordingly to your sweet preferences.

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How to make Vanilla Muffins

Preparing ingredients

1.Gather all your ingredients.

Preparing dry mix

2.To a sieve : add 1 cup maida / all purpose flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 1/8 tsp salt.

3.Sieve it well. Set aside.

Preparing wet mix

4.To another mixing bowl : Add 1/2 cup sugar, 1 egg at room temperature and 1 tsp vanilla essence.

5.Whisk it well until the mixture turns pale.

6.Now add 1/4 cup milk, 1/4 cup curd and 1/4 cup melted butter.

7.Whisk it well.

Adding dry mix

8.Now add flour mix.

9.Gently fold in using cut and fold method using a spatula until no dry flour is seen. Do not overmix even if small small lumps are seen it is just ok. If you overmix then the muffins will turn out hard.

10.Scoop out the batter using a icecream scooper.

Filling to muffin liner

11.Line muffin liners in a muffin pan and keep it ready. Now fill the batter almost 3/4th of the liner. While doing this you can preheat the oven at 180 deg C for 10 mins.

Baking

12.Bake in preheated oven at 180 deg C for 23-25 mins or until a toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean without sticking.

13.Cool down on a wirerack then store. Or enjoy warm muffins if you like them.

Vanilla Muffins done!

14.Bakery style vanilla muffins ready.

15.Soft spongy bakery style vanilla muffins ready.

Serving & Storage Suggestion

Vanilla muffins are a great choice for breakfast or as an anytime snack. They keep good for 2 days when stored in air tight containers. But this recipe uses milk so I would suggest to store in fridge after a day and consume.Muffins become dry when aged, hence best to consume fresh and within a day or two.

Expert Tips

• No glove – no oven : Always use protective gear like thick gloves, silicone cups while handling the oven
• Do not mix all ingredients in a single bowl at one go. Milk, Sugar, Egg, Vanilla extract has to be blend separately & added so that the flavours & taste is uniform
• Taste the batter for sweetness before baking if you are using cane sugar & add if need be & whisk accordingly. The orginal recipes used just 1/3 cup sugar which was a bit low in sweet for our taste buds so I always use 1/2 cup sugar.
• Be watchful say from 15 minutes after baking start time to see if the muffin had started rising & is not getting burnt as ovens vary with wattage & make.
• Use 2 paper liners for each mould so that the outer liner is bright and makes a good presentation as I have done for my wheat flour muffins below.

FAQs

1.The muffin batter is sticky when i tested with tooth pick after 20 minutes of baking time – what should I do?

Bake for 5-8 more minutes till the muffin rises above the liner to doom shape. Be watchful and do not allow it to get dark/ burnt. Still if it is not raising & dough sticks to tooth pick recall if you had preheated the oven and extend baking accordingly. If all the steps were followed correctly and still an issue, it has to with the quality/ageing of the baking powder or soda.

2.Can I prepare the muffin mix and bake it later or store a portion of the mix for later?

Yes you can prepare the muffin mix a day earlier or store a portion of the mix for a day by refrigerating it in a closed container. However fresh batter always makes the muffins rise perfectly.

3.Can I add choco chip to the muffins?

Yes very much. You can add raisins, tutti fruitti, dry fruits, and nuts as well. Mix them at the last stage of batter preparation and top it after filling the muffin mix in the mould.

4.How is cup cake different from muffin?

Muffins are bigger in size and more of a healthy variation to cupcakes. Muffins mostly do not use fancy ingredients plus no frostings. Muffins are so big that they can be had for an ideal breakfast too. Cup cakes are smaller in size when compared to muffins, generally frosted though not mandatory.

5.Should the milk be boiled and used in this recipe?

Not necessarily – Milk can be used raw or boiled & cooled. But I always use boiled, cooled milk.

6.Can I use this recipe for making muffins using wheat flour?

Yes you can but make sure to add a bit more of milk, curd may be 1/3 cup cup each to balance the dryness.

Vanilla Muffins using whole wheat flour

Learn how to make perfectly domed and puffed bakery style vanilla muffins recipe using wheat flour.

After I tried homemade maida I stopped buying from stores.Then slowly gave up making from scratch so these days using wheat flour for all my bakes and it has 90% not let me down and as a bonus my kids love homemade bakes so I bake atleast once a month.

On our usual conversation my neighbor once warned me not to give baked goodies often to kids(even if its homemade)…yes I agree but still my thought is homemade goodies including baked are far better than the store bought ones as u exactly know what goes into it plus its freshly made. So once or twice a month its ok to have homemade baked goodies as I don’t want to grab their pleasure of eating them atleast once in a while.

Ingredients

Dry Mix

1 and 1/2 cups wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

Wet Mix
1/4 cup unsalted butter (melted)
1/2 cup granulated white sugar
1 no egg at room temperature

1. To a mixing bowl – add wheat flour,baking powder,baking soda and salt to it.

2.Whisk it well for even mixing.

3.To another bowl add melted butter.

4.Add sugar to it.

5.Add egg to it.

6.Beat until fluffy.

7.Add milk to it.

8.Add vanilla essence.

9.Beat it once again. Not a must to use electric beater you can use hand whisk itself.

10.Now add this wet mixture to flour mixture.

11.Add it atonce.

12.Use a spatula to gently fold in do not overmix. Just fold in using cut and fold method until no dry flour is seen. The batter will be slightly thick as shown.

13.Scoop out the batter using a icecream scooper.

14.Line muffin liners in a muffin pan. Add batter till 3/4 th of the liner. Preheat oven at 180 deg C.

15.Bake in preheated oven at 180 deg C for 20 mins or a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Soft fluffy bakery style muffins ready!