Name: Best Bing Cherry Muffin
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: american
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter, melted and slightly cooled; 1 cup granulated sugar; 2 large eggs; 1 1/2 cups whole milk; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract or almond; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; pinch of salt; 3 cups AP flour; 1 cup fresh pitted sliced Bing cherries, blotted dry with paper towels

This high-crowned Bing Cherry Muffin will be the best recipe you will ever make!

Summer is always full of fresh fruits, and cherries are an all-time favorite from my childhood days.

Mom made so many recipes with fresh cherries, and another favorite was the best ever Cherry Fresh Pie.

Usually, fresh Bing cherries don't last a day in our home, so we have to buy more and use them up before anyone else finds them in the fridge.

I have to buy twice the amount just to make these! They sure are worth waking up to.

Breakfast muffins chock-full of chopped fresh cherries, all in a sweet muffin with or without butter, are fantastic!

If you'd rather have Cherry Quick Bread instead, try this recipe or try some other muffins' best quick bread variety muffins here.

These are muffins baked with fresh cut up sweet bing summer cherries. They are sweet, moist muffins with chopped cherries inside baked on a fruit designed plate

Why Make This Recipe for Bing Cherry Muffins

We make them in our home every summer, and these will be the most asked-for morning breakfast muffins besides Sour Cream Apple Pie Muffins and blueberry muffins! Mango Muffins
If you love high-topped muffins, this will be the recipe to try for a beautiful crowned muffin top!
These are easy to make and versatile, as you can change them to any other fruit with our basic recipe
These freeze perfectly for a cherry muffin that will be available all year long!

collage of bing cherry muffin batter ingredients

Best Bing Cherry Muffins Tips

Homemade Cherry Muffins are made from scratch with fresh, red, juicy, sweet cherries that come out to be delicious muffins quickly using simple pantry ingredients.
This recipe is so versatile that just about any fruit can be substituted that you like, or around 1/2 cup of other additions like chocolate chips or nuts.
Bitter cherries? will be perfect with a little drizzle of frosting on top, or dust them with powdered sugar, but the muffins mask the tartness just as they are
As always, adapt away; this basic recipe is out there for you to make however you want, and I know my family loves nuts and chocolate with cherries, so experiment.
Blot cherries dry with paper towels before folding into the batter for best results
Freeze excess cherries: toss with sugar and freeze for easy future batches

bing cherries and the mixed muffin batter

Additions Mix-ins (1/2 cup measurements)

white or semi-sweet chocolate chips
nuts of any kind(we love pistachios or macadamia nuts)
shredded coconut
dried craisins or raisins
Use 1 teaspoon of lemon or orange zest
Topping suggestions:
Drizzle the top with frosting and use maraschino cherry juice
Make a streusel topping and add it before baking
dust with powdered sugar

bing cherry muffins raw in a muffin pan ready to bake

Pitting the Cherries

What you will need

kitchen towel, knife, cutting board, bowl, or freezer bag to store them in, a paring knife, and a cherry pitter is the easiest version!
Peak season cherries are full of juice, and they can stain. Use an old kitchen towel tucked in like a bib, or wear old clothes.
Method 1: Place the cherry on a cutting board. Use the side of a knife to press on the cherry until it gives way. Pry the fruit apart until you see the pit and discard it.
Method 2: Take a paring knife and rock it around the entire cherry, as you would an avocado or peach. Twist the fruit into 2 halves to see the pit and take it out.

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Yield: 18

Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Best Bing Cherry Muffin

These are the perfect bing cherry muffins I make all year round just by freezing some of the seasonal produce when on sale! Check out these easy moist muffins you can make to keep summer alive!

Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 25 MinTotal time: 35 Min

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, melted and slightly cooled
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups whole milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract or almond
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
pinch of salt
3 cups AP flour
1 cup fresh pitted sliced Bing cherries, blotted dry with paper towels

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Prepare a 12-cup buttered muffin pan or with cooking oil spray(plus 6 more muffins or pour into a small 6-inch loaf pan with remaining batter.
In a large mixing bowl, stir the butter with sugar for around 1 minute.
Add the egg and blend evenly together.
Sift all the above dry ingredients together in s clean bowl.
Gently fold the dry ingredients with the milk alternately to the butter mixture
Fold in the cherries just until blended (batter will still be lumpy).
Do not overmix batter.
Pour the mixture into prepared tins.
Bake 20 -25 minutes or until the center is dry (you can also use the toothpick method).

Notes

Additions Mix-ins (1/2 cup measurements)

white or semi-sweet chocolate chips
nuts of any kind(we love pistachios or macadamia nuts)
shredded coconut
dried craisins or raisins
use 1 teaspoon of lemon or orange zest
topping suggestions:
drizzle the top with frosting and use maraschino cherry juice
make a streusel topping and add before baking
dust with powdered sugar

Pitting the Cherries

what you will need

kitchen towel, knife, cutting board, bowl or freezer bag to store them in, paring knife, and the cherry pitter is the easiest version!
Peak season cherries are full of juice and they can stain, use an old kitchen towel tucked in like a bib, or wear old clothes.
Method 1: Place the cherry on a cutting board. Use the side of a knife to press on the cherry until it gives way. Pry the fruit apart to until you see the pit and discard it.
Method 2: Take a paring knife and rock it around the entire cherry, as you would an avocado or peach. Twist the fruit into 2 halves to see the pit and take it out.

Nutrition Facts

Calories

225.64

Fat (grams)

8.9 g

Sat. Fat (grams)

5.39 g

Carbs (grams)

32.74 g

Fiber (grams)

1.51 g

Net carbs

31.23 g

Sugar (grams)

14.61 g

Protein (grams)

4.07 g

Sodium (milligrams)

243.45 mg

Cholesterol (grams)

36.42 mg

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