Moist Huckleberry Muffins with Crumble

Moist huckleberry muffins with crumble are great for breakfast or dessert. Using fresh fruit with a brown sugar and oat crumble on top, you’re sure to love these. It’s one of our favorite huckleberry recipes to make during the Fall.

Moist Huckleberry Muffins

We’re going to start with this easy muffin recipe base for the batter. You can really add any sort of berries to this but since we were lucky enough to pick a few cups full, they’ll work great.

Have you ever seen a huckleberry bush? If you live in areas like Montana, Idaho, Oregon or Washington you might find a few in the mountains like we did. My girls and I had a great time picking them the other afternoon. One of our favorites, and what to make with huckleberries you should try this season.

Huckleberry Muffins with Crumble

You could add a crumb topping for muffins or just leave these babies plain. If you aren’t familiar with this small fruit it is really packed with flavor. Sweet with just a bit of tang.

If you want to make a muffin crumble for the top you’ll need:

• Brown sugar
• Oats
• Cinnamon
• Could add some crushed nuts too

I like to use my stand mixer to make things easier. Just make sure you don’t add berries until the very end. Gently fold those in so they don’t get crushed and stay whole.

Homemade Muffins with Huckleberries

I do have an entire printable recipe card at the bottom of this post. You can keep it handy in your recipe box or just come back time and time again each time you want to make them. Here’s a quick rundown of how we made them.

1. In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together well.
2. Mix wet ingredients together and then slowly incorporate your flour mixture.
3. Gently fold in fresh or frozen huckleberries. Frozen berries would probably work just fine but will have a bit different texture. Since we went huckleberry picking we had fresh.
4. Wild blueberries work the same way for these berry muffins.
5. Preheat oven to 425 F. Fill the muffin tin holes 3/4 of the way full. Mix crumble topping and spoon 1 tsp on top of each one. Use back of spoon to press gently so topping doesn’t fall off.
6. Bake for 5 minutes at this temp.

Turn temperature down to 350 degrees F and continue baking muffin cups for 12 minutes. When toothpick inserted into your huckleberries blueberries lined muffins, take them out. I often just touch the middle and if it springs back they’re done too. You don’t want to over bake these. OR make air fryer muffins.

Wild Mountain Huckleberry Muffins

This is how long to bake mini muffins if you want teeny tiny sizes. It is a great recipe for breakfast of course, but we think blueberry muffins are great for a quick dessert too.

The biggest tip I can share for baking the perfect moist muffin is to take them out RIGHT WHEN they’re done. Cooking even 2 minutes longer will dry them out and you won’t get that pop of juice when you bite into them. I give you an approx. amount of fruit to use too. I use the max and increase by 1/2 cup to 2 full cups because we like a lot in there.

• The biggest difference if you use frozen berries is that the juice is going to escape once you defrost them.
• This is an issue in regards to how moist your recipe will turn out.

Instead of the berry itself being juicy, there will be a lot of liquid in the bowl which you’ll likely need to drain off before adding. If you don’t drain that first you’ll have too much liquid in your muffin batter which will be an issue too.

Muffin Recipes with Fresh Berries

With that said, fresh berries are always best for baking. If you don’t have access to those then defrost, use juice in that bowl instead of water (if your recipe calls for any water), drain remaining liquid and then fold in. Other easy dessert ideas you can try are:

• Our Instant Pot blueberry muffins are easy to do.
• You can make our pumpkin chocolate bread into muffins, 18 – 20 minutes usually is the perfect timing.
• For a simple treat, try our apple pie bread pudding some afternoon.
• With just 5 simple ingredients this is how to make monkey bread with refrigerated biscuits.
  • Or make our 2 ingredient pumpkin muffins