Easy and delicious cherry muffins made with fresh sweet cherries and a hint of almond. Cherries are a wonderful addition to a basic muffin batter.
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Cherry Muffins
Makes 24 Muffins | Prep time: 10 mins | Bake time: 13 mins
Ingredients:
3 cups all purpose flour
4 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 tsp allspice
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 cup granulated white sugar
1 cup milk, room temperature
2 tsp almond extract
1 cup butter, melted & cooled
2 cups cherries, pitted and chopped
vanilla frosting, optional
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a medium bowl, whisk together dry ingredients.
In a large bowl, mix with a hand blender eggs and sugar. Add in milk, almond extract, and melted butter. Mix well.
Gently pour in dry ingredients to wet ingredients bowl, mix well, but do NOT OVER MIX.
Fold in cherries.
For jumbo muffins, grease muffin tins and divide evenly over 10-12 muffin tins.
For cupcake sized muffins, grease or add liners into cupcake tin. Divide evenly over 22-24 cupcake openings.
Bake at 425 for five minutes, then lower temperature to 350 degrees for 16-18 minutes for jumbo muffins and 13-14 minutes for cupcake sized muffins.
Remove from heat and allow muffins to cool.
Drizzle muffins with melted vanilla frosting if desired.

- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp allspice
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 1 cup granulated white sugar
- 1 cup milk room temperature
- 2 tsp almond extract
- 1 cup butter melted & cooled
- 2 cups cherries pitted and chopped
- vanilla frosting optional
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together dry ingredients.
- In a large bowl, mix with a hand blender eggs and sugar. Add in milk, almond extract, and melted butter. Mix well.
- Gently pour in dry ingredients to wet ingredients bowl, mix well, but do NOT OVER MIX.
- Fold in cherries.
- For jumbo muffins, grease muffin tins and divide evenly over 10-12 muffin tins.
- For cupcake sized muffins, grease or add liners into cupcake tin. Divide evenly over 22-24 cupcake openings.
- Bake at 425 for five minutes, then lower temperature to 350 degrees for 16-18 minutes for jumbo muffins and 13-14 minutes for cupcake sized muffins.
- Remove from heat and allow muffins to cool.
- Drizzle muffins with melted vanilla frosting if desired.
These cupcakes would go great with my afternoon coffee. Looks yummy!
I’m not a big fan of muffins or cupcakes, but these sound very good, I love cherries so I would eat these ones!
I love baking muffins in the fall and these look so yummy!
I love cherries, these would be perfect with my morning coffee!