Recipe Box: Wild Strawberry Spice Muffins
Every year our fields are full of wild strawberries.
Wild Field Strawberries
They are tiny but full of flavor.
Tiny Strawberries
However it takes a lot of time to pick a cup or two, which is generally what you need to make muffins. Our pug, Purtie, used to spend hours grazing eating every little strawberry she could find.
Purtie, our beloved pug.
We sure miss her but we are able to find a lot more strawberries this year. My husband was sweet enough to spend some time and picked me a full cup of strawberries.
Cup of prepared berries
In exchange I made him a batch of his favorite muffins. I’m sure they would be wonderful with blueberries or regular strawberries but we just love them made with the wild strawberries.
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.
Gently fold in strawberries
Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups two-thirds full.
Muffin tin filled 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!
Wild Strawberry Spice Muffin
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I’ve never really seen wild strawberries! I have some plants in my yard that look like strawberries, and I’ve always called them wild strawberries, but they’ve never had any fruit! Your muffin mix looks great though. I’ll just substitute a fruit I can find!
This muffin looks WONDERFUL
Such great red-color
Love the photo of your dog!
Nancy,
These look delicious! No wonder Purtie ate them quicker than you could pick. I’m sorry she wasn’t here to try these muffins. Bet she would have given them two paws up!!
Pets have a way of making our lives so much better and they leave their paw prints forever engraved on our hearts.
Hope you’re having a wonderful day!
These muffins look wonderful! I love wild strawberries, they have so much flavor!
These look wonderful! I don’t think I will get my hands on wild strawberries, but I’ll try them with store bought!
I have these in my yard, but I never get enough to do this with. I even planted strawberries, but I just seem to have the worst luck with them.
Michelle, It’s a lot of work to collect enoughtnwil strawberries tommake muffins but wellmworthnthe effort!
Wild strawberry muffins… extra special. I hope Purtie have any. Thanks for sharing them on foodie friday.
Love muffins, love strawberries…definitely going to give these a try! Thanks for sharing.
Those look so yummy! I’ve bookmarked this! Thank you for sharing! We love strawberries!
This would be such an indulgent breakfast treat! Would love you to share this at Breakfast Ideas Mondays – http://www.yummyinspirations.net/2012/06/coconut-pancakes-and-breakfast-ideas.html
amazing. I will look for wild strawberries, but have fresh berries just ripening in my garden. So i will try it with them first. I know I can find wild thimbleberries, and this would probably work great with them. ps…i love that you’ve added your doggy pic:) just adds a certain something!
Our parents have a garden and so many strawberries they don’t know what to do with them! This is perfect! Thanks for sharing with us on “Strut Your Stuff Saturday!” We hope to see you next week! -The Sisters
This looks so good. I have a wild strawberry patch in my yard & this recipe will be on my list to try when they start producing. I’d love if you would share it over at Whatcha Whipped Up Wednesday Hope to see yo there!
I wish we have wild strawberries here. But your recipe sounds great for blueberry too. Thanks for sharing.
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Those look sooo yummy!!!!
Thanks for sharing with my Super Link Party!
This post really brought back memories. I used to pick wild strawberries with my Auntie Irene when I was a little girl. We used to have such fun! Your muffins sound delicious. I like the cinnamon in them too!
Wild Strawberries would really be a treat and I am sure be a great addition to these awesome muffins. Hope you are having a great week and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
These look delicious! And the little strawberries are always the most flavorful! Thanks for sharing at Must Try Monday.
Carrie, the little strawberries are the best for flavor, I wish I could collect enough to make a batch of jam!
These strawberries really are tiny but oh so cute! – they really are perfect for muffins. They look so delicious. Thanks for sharing on my “Themed Blog & Shop Hop”.
Angie
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How cool! I didn’t know wild strawberries were edible; somewhere I got the idea they are poisonous. We have some on our property. Don’t know if I can gather enough for this recipe though!
Mmmm, Oh my goodness, they look so yummy! My husband would LOVE these!
Rebecca,
My husband loves these which is why he is so willing to pick the berries for me!
I have never had the privilege of having wild strawberries, they look wonderful! And your muffins are lovely, I’ll bet your hubby was glad he picked those for you.
Thanks for sharing on Hearth & Soul Hop.
Mmmm,…I bet this recipe is fabulous with the fresh-picked wild strawberries. Thanks for sharing at our party this week.