Bake or Break

Blueberry Sour Cream Mini Muffins {Plus a J.R. Watkins Giveaway}

As that collection of recipes last Friday hopefully conveyed, I love baking with berries. I love all kinds of berries, but if I have to pick a favorite berry, I would likely choose blueberries. And, one of my favorite uses for blueberries is muffins. Just to make these blueberry muffins even better, I used one of my favorite baking ingredients - sour cream. I love the texture and flavor that it adds. These little muffins are everything you'd want in a blueberry muffin. They are seriously dangerous, though, because you'll be tempted to eat one right after another.

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Mocha Muffins

Quinn has been after me for ages to bake more with chocolate and coffee. The problem, you see, is that I don't like coffee. Love to smell it, don't love to drink it. Does anyone else have this problem? It's no secret that chocolate and coffee are a brilliant pairing. They just seem to enhance each other naturally. Even I have a hard time arguing with that.

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Pear and Pecan Muffins

When everyone is clamoring about apple season, I'm the one ogling the pears. As much as I like baking with apples, I prefer the subtlety of pears. Once I get my first ones and start baking, I know fall has officially arrived. If you could somehow take all the awesome parts of fall and condense them into a muffin, you'd have yourself one of these gems. Pears and pecans and cinnamon make for a pretty perfect combination. These muffins are simple yet tasty, soft yet sturdy.

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Raspberry Oat Muffins

Recently, I was looking through past BoB photos for a little project and happened upon photos of these muffins. I quickly realized that I had never shared the recipe with you. And, believe me, these muffins want nothing more than to be shared with you! This recipe is a bit different than the traditional muffin. I added oats to them to give them a little extra flavor and a hint of chewiness. I adore raspberries, but feel free to use your favorite berry to make these your own.

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Blueberry Crumb Muffins

As I mentioned earlier, the lovely Joanna of Cup of Jo began a "best recipe" series a few months back. Her goal is to curate the best versions of basic recipes. To do this, she asked several food bloggers to contribute recipes, ranging from cookies to pasta sauce to cocktails. Last week on National Blueberry Muffin Day, Joanna featured my favorite recipe for blueberry muffins. As I told Joanna, I prefer for-real muffins versus the cake-like versions that have evolved. If you're with me on this, I think you'll love these as much as I do.

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Sour Cream Coffee Cake Muffins

If there's one thing I wish I baked more often, it's muffins. How much nicer is it to have a homemade muffin for breakfast instead of the usual breakfast fare? I am not known for being a morning person, which most likely explains the few and far between muffin recipes on BoB.

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