In June we can find an abundance of wild strawberries in our fields.
They are tiny but packed with flavor and they make the best strawberry muffins.
Something about the tiny size and the burst of strawberry flavor just enhances the taste of the muffins. My husband has a real fondness for these muffins and each year he will diligently spend an hour or more searching and picking these tiny little berries.
In exchange I use them to bake up a batch of his favorite Wild Strawberry Spice Muffins.
We each enjoyed a few and then I froze the rest to enjoy later this year.
The strawberries are short lived and if you don’t go right out and pick them the birds will eat them up.
This recipe would be wonderful with blueberries or even regular strawberries but I use it each year to make our delicious Wild Strawberry Spice Muffins!
Wild Strawberry Spice Muffins
1 ¾ cup flour
½ cup sugar
2 ½ tsp baking powder
¾ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
1 egg, lightly beaten
¾ cup milk
1/3 cup butter
1 cup wild strawberries
Topping (optional)
1 Tbsp sugar
¼ tsp cinnamon
In a bowl, combine all the dry ingredients. Combine the egg and milk. Add the egg mixture and butter to the dry ingredients; stir just until moistened. Fold in the strawberries.
Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups two-thirds full.
Combine the topping ingredients and sprinkle over the batter. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Cool for five minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.
Makes 1 dozen.
Enjoy!
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Looks delicious! Thanks for sharing with the Thursday Blog Hop!
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Those little strawberries are so cute! I would love to go pick strawberries for my own baking…in Texas we don’t get much of an opportunity for that. This recipe looks so delicious! I will have to use it soon. Love your website too, I am going to browse around for a bit! Stopping by from Create it Thursday 🙂 Have a great Sunday!!
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Alexis, I imagine Texas doesn’t have many wild strawberries! 😦
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Hi Nancy, your little berries I’ll bet taste delicious. The muffins look even better.
Thanks for sharing on Oh My Heartsie Girl FF this week!
Have a great week
Karren
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You’re welcome Karren!
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Oh I love this! I’d forgotten about these little strawberries. We use to eat them when we were little and you reminded me of a nearby patch that I saw. Am totally sending the kids out tomorrow to pick them!
Thank you for sharing at the #HomeMattersParty! Looking forward to seeing you back next week.
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Jane, Picking those tiny strawberries may be tedious but the reward is delicious muffins!!
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That’s it. We’re making muffins tomorrow. The strawberry season at the farm that supplies our produce is just about over, but there’s an abundance of blueberries and raspberries! Our blackberry bushes are getting ready, too. Muffins for everyone!
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Jackie,
Enjoy those muffins! I can’t wait until our blueberries are ripe! 🙂
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OMG this sound so great! YUM!
Thanks for joining Cooking and Crafting with J & J!
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Yummy!! Thanks for sharing on My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday – Link Party!! Hope to see you again tomorrow!! Pinned!
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Your Wild Strawberry Muffins would be fabulous! Thanks so much for sharing this awesome recipe with us at Full Plate Thursday!
Come Back Soon,
Miz Helen
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I love this. and the wild strawberries. Linda @CRafts a la mode
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Thanks Linda!
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These look so delicious. We don’t have wild strawberries in our area…but we do have wild blackberries. I remember picking them so my mom would make blackberry dumpling.
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Trish,
Wild blackberries are so yummy! Haven’t used them in a muffin but I’ll be they would be good!
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I love wild strawberries. It’s so amazing that something so small can burst with flavor. I would love these muffins:-) Thanks for linking up and sharing with us at Funtastic Friday. Please join us again this week.
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Love to taste this muffin, I haven’t tasted wild strawberry yet. They looks tiny but sure full of flavor. thanks for sharing with hearth and soul blog hop, pinning, tweeting and featuring on this weeks hop.
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Your post brought back some very happy memories, Nancy. I used to pick wild strawberries with my lovely Aunt Irene when I was little! Love this delicious muffin recipe – it’s perfect for summer! Thank you for being a part of the Hearth and Soul Hop 🙂
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Thank you April! What wonderful memories you have!
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Thanks for sharing on My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday!! Hope to see you again this week! I love having you!! Pinned!
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These look amazing. Those are the CUTEST berries ever! Visiting from the CLIMB link up today 🙂
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Suxie,
they may be small in size but they are bursting with flavor!
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