This is the best blueberry muffin recipe! It’s low in calories, high in protein, and comes with a to die for blueberry muffins crumble topping.
Making blueberry muffins with crumble topping doesn’t have to be high calorie and packed full of sugar. We cut calories, fat and sugar with this healthy homemade blueberry muffins recipe.
In this article you will find our low calorie blueberry muffins recipe from scratch as well as a yummy topping for blueberry muffins that works on all your favorite berry muffin recipes.
To make these blueberry muffins easy, we’ve supplied you with several helpful sections like shopping lists and how to guides.
The Best Blueberry Muffin Recipe is just 108 calories and has over 6g of protein per muffin!
The Best Blueberry Muffin Recipe
The best blueberry muffins are the ones you can enjoy without ruining your diet… And these low calorie blueberry muffins are absolutely delicious and much healthier then full fat old fashioned blueberry muffins.
Along with our healthy blueberry muffin recipes, you’ll find a printable recipe card, nutrition label, shopping list and more. We made this blueberry muffins recipe easy by supplying you with everything you’ll need to make this low calorie recipe.
This easy blueberry muffins recipe comes with a muffin crumble topping and so much more. Including a “how to” guide and recipe card…
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Blueberry Muffin Ingredients (shopping list!)
- How to Make Blueberry Muffins
- The Best Blueberry Muffin Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Blueberry Muffins
Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone so you have it handy the next time you go shopping. And email yourself (or print) the recipe card so you have it at your fingertips the next time you are craving these low calorie fresh blueberry muffins.
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Blueberry Muffin Ingredients
To keep these blueberry muffins low calorie we swapped out most of the sugar and butter with Greek Yogurt and unsweetened apple sauce. What you end up with are low calorie moist blueberry muffins that taste like old fashioned blueberry muffins.
Then we top our berry muffins recipes with our yummy blueberry muffin topping… so they taste and look just like full calorie muffins, but for just 108 calories.
You don’t have to add the sugar topping for muffins… and if you are looking to lower the sugar in this recipe, that is a great option.
Either way, here is a shopping list for you to screenshot to your phone, with links that will add ingredients to your shopping list1
Shopping List for Homemade Blueberry Muffins:
Blueberry Muffin Ingredients:
- Olive oil spray
- Self rising flour
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Brown sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla extract
- Greek yogurt
- Almond milk
- Unsweetened applesauce
- Blueberries
Crumb Topping For Muffins:
Special Tip: You can find the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many of The Best Blueberry Muffin Recipe you want to make, and it will do all the math for you!
Up next, how to make blueberry muffins healthy and low calories…
How to Make Blueberry Muffins
The Best Blueberry Muffin Recipe is easy to make, thanks to this helpful “how to” guide.
In this section we will show you how to make blueberry muffins both healthy and low in calories. With just a few ingredient swaps (Greek Yogurt in place of butter and unsweetened applesauce in place of sugar) we are able to make this low calorie blueberry muffin recipe just as yummy as the full calorie versions.
It’s surprisingly easy to make homemade blueberry muffins low in calories, here is our helpful how to guide.
How to Make Blueberry Muffins:
- Preheat oven to 350°, and spray muffin pans with olive oil.
- To a small bowl, combine all of the muffin crumble topping ingredients, and work together with your fingers until it’s the consistency of wet sand. Set aside
- In a large bowl, combine the “dry ingredients” the flour, baking soda, salt, and sugar.
- To a separate medium bowl, whisk together the “wet ingredients: the eggs, vanilla, Greek yogurt, almond milk, and applesauce.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and add the blueberries, reserving a handful to top the muffins.
- Gently mix the wet and dry ingredients together, until just combined.
- Fill the prepared muffin cups 3/4 full of blueberry muffin batter, add more blueberries to the top, and sprinkle over the muffin crumble topping.
- Bake for 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the blueberry muffin comes out clean.
- Store in the fridge for up to 5 days, or cool and move to a freezer bag and freeze for up to 2 months.
Special Tip: You can find the directions, measurements, nutrition and more all combined in the sharable recipe card below.
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The Best Blueberry Muffin Recipe
This blueberry muffin recipe is just 108 calories per muffin, and each blueberry muffin has 6.3g of protein!
You can find a nutrition label and more low calorie desserts below this recipe card…
The Best Blueberry Muffin Recipe {LOW CALORIE}
Equipment
- Muffin tins
Ingredients
Blueberry Muffins:
- Olive oil spray
- 1 1/2 cups self rising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup Greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup almond milk
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 cup blueberries
Crumb Topping For Muffins:
- 1/4 cup flour
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons cold butter cut into small pieces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°, and spray muffin pans with olive oil.
- To a small bowl, combine all of the muffin crumble topping ingredients, and work together with your fingers until it’s the consistency of wet sand. Set aside
- In a large bowl, combine the “dry ingredients” the flour, baking soda, salt, and sugar.
- To a separate medium bowl, whisk together the "wet ingredients: the eggs, vanilla, Greek yogurt, almond milk, and applesauce.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and add the blueberries, reserving a handful to top the muffins.
- Gently mix the wet and dry ingredients together, until just combined.
- Fill the prepared muffin cups 3/4 full of blueberry muffin batter, add more blueberries to the top, and sprinkle over the muffin crumble topping.
- Bake for 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the blueberry muffin comes out clean.
- Store in the fridge for up to 5 days, or cool and move to a freezer bag and freeze for up to 2 months.
Nutrition
Up next, nutrition and calories in blueberry muffins…
Nutrition and Calories in Blueberry Muffins
Not all blueberry muffins recipes are healthy or low calorie… but our’s is!
We cut calories and fat by swapping the butter for Greek Yogurt and most of the sugar for unsweetened (metabolism boosting!) applesauce!
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