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I love a good muffin! But I’m not a big fan of the store-bought mixes. Or maybe they’re not a fan of me. Because whenever I make them, the muffins are teeny tiny. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. But when I think delicious breakfast muffin, I’m thinking of the ones you see in bakeries and coffee shops, or Costco (those things are HUGE, ha ha), with tons of mix-ins and preferably a streusel top! Since I have yet to find a mix that pulls that off, that means I have to make my own. But sometimes the idea of hauling out all the ingredients to make muffins from scratch is just more than I can muster, even at 10 am! So, enter my favorite Make-Ahead Muffin Mix!!!<\/p>\n
I can’t claim any fame for this one. A baker I am not. So when I find a good recipe for baked goods, like Amazing Honey Wheat Bread<\/a>, and it works, I tend to just leave it alone, because why mess with a good thing, right? This is one of those things!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I found the recipe several years ago on grouprecipes.com<\/a>. I’ve since seen it a couple of other places, with a different name attached to it as the author, so I’m not entirely sure who to credit here. But whoever it is, they are a genius! The recipe posting says they learned this recipe while working at a neighborhood bakery. I have no idea if that’s true, but I have no reason to doubt it. Because this make-ahead muffin mix makes true bakery-style muffins!<\/p>\n The recipe itself is for the muffin mix base – all of the dry ingredients. It makes a huge batch, which you can store until needed. Then, when you’re ready to make muffins, you just add the correct amount of mix, your wet ingredients, and whatever mix-in’s you want (there is a list of about three or four dozen options) – and voil\u00e0!<\/p>\n My personal favorite is the lemon poppy-seed variety, although I really like the pumpkin with cream cheese topping, too!<\/p>\n For today’s post, and for most morning breakfasts, I go with blueberry, strawberry, or mixed berry muffins.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The large batch of muffin mix will make enough for 5 batches of 24 muffins each. However, feel free to halve the mix recipe if you’re not sure you’ll go through it quickly enough. It’s good for a couple months in an airtight container in a cool, dry place. Or you can also stick your extra dry mix in a ziptop freezer bag and freeze it to keep it good longer.<\/p>\n I will add a couple of the mix-in instructions in the notes section, but for the full list, be sure to visit the original recipe page<\/a>. You will not believe the combinations that are available! You could probably make a different variety each week for an entire year and still not get through them all!! It’s muffin heaven!!!<\/p>\n Even better than having an amazing mix already to go, to speed up your muffin-making, is the fact that your baked muffins can then be FROZEN!! I like to make up a batch of 24, keep about half out for the next few mornings, and then freeze the other 12 muffins for future breakfasts. So, it’s really a make-ahead mix that makes make-ahead muffins! Pretty clever, eh? I had to get up really early in the morning for to come up with that one! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Corny jokes and bad alliteration aside, I hope you will enjoy these as much as we do at my house!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\nMake-Ahead Muffin Mix<\/h2>\n\t\t