Few things are better than tasty brown butter Pomegranate Orange Muffins, full of fresh pomegranate seeds and orange zest, with your morning cup of coffee.
If you love homemade muffin recipes like this, you’ll also want to try my Black Tea Vanilla Muffins!
I’ve been buying pomegranates in bulk at Costco lately. Why? Oh, well, there are so many reasons and you know I want to tell you them all. First of all, the pomegranates I get a Costco are HUGE. Massive. If I’m going to take the time to remove the seeds, or arils if you will, from a pomegranate, it better be worth my time. Second, they last awhile, which is good because when I get lazy, which is often these days, I don’t always feel like breaking up a new one. Third, pomegranates are a super food. They have all sorts of good things. Now, wrap them in a brown butter buttermilk muffin and some may argue that they’re not exactly healthy anymore… but they’re healthier than if you had used chocolate chips, right? I can rationalize anything.
I used the same base that I use for my blueberry and banana walnut muffins. I have perfected the recipe as you can see and will never use anything else. The orange zest only added to the flavor and I ended up having to keep these muffins under lock and key so that my kids wouldn’t inhale all of them in one sitting.
This recipe uses pure vanilla extract. Did you know you can make your own homemade vanilla extract? It makes the perfect gift too. Watch how in the video below.
And check out how I remove the seeds from pomegranates in the video below:
Pomegranate Orange Muffins
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 cube
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs beaten
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups pomegranate arils
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and grease muffin tins with butter.
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking power, baking soda, sugar, and salt.
- In a medium sized pan over medium heat, melt the butter. Swirl occasionally to ensure butter is cooking evenly. As the butter melts, it will begin to foam and the color will get darker. Continually scrape bottom of pan to release any brown specs. Once you start smelling the nutty aroma, remove browned butter from heat and allow to cool.
- In a separate bowl, whisk eggs, buttermilk, orange zest, vanilla, and mostly cooled browned butter together. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the liquid ingredients. Fold together and do not over mix. Fold in the pomegranate arils.
- Spoon batter into greased muffin tins and bake in preheated oven until golden brown, about 20-30 minutes (mine took longer because I used a stone muffin pan). When done cooking, immediately remove from muffin tins and allow to cool on cooling rack.
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