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    Home » Recipes » Breakfast

    Strawberry Rhubarb Streusel Muffins

    Published: May 16, 2020 · Updated: May 10, 2021 · By: Krissy · 13 Comments
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    Indulge in this sweet summer treat. Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins are made with fresh strawberries and tart rhubarb wrapped in a brown sugar buttermilk batter. The crunchy pecan streusel topping adds a fantastic texture to the moist muffins too!

    Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins with Pecan Streusel Topping on rack

    If you love baking recipes with seasonal fruit, you will definitely love these muffins.

    Why this recipe works:

    • The muffin is incredibly moist. The fresh fruit combined with the buttermilk create a super soft muffin that melts in your mouth.
    • Brown sugar is used in both the muffin batter as well as the streusel topping. This gives the entire recipe such great flavor.
    • The topping gives the muffins a superb crunch that really compliments the fluffy muffins.

    When fresh berries are in season, I will buy entire flats of Oregon grown Hood strawberries until the farmers run out. This is the best strawberry known to man. They're small but deep red, juicy, and sweet all the way through.

    This type of strawberry isn't really ideal for baking because of the moisture - it is best for eating fresh or for making jam, but they ended up working really well in these muffins.

    full flat of red strawberries

    I will also buy abundant amounts of gorgeous red rhubarb when it's in season. If you've never cooked with fresh rhubarb, size doesn't matter but red is better than green.

    Fresh rhubarb is a hard stalk similar to celery. It is extremely tart and often needs a fair amount of sugar to balance the sour.

    red rhubarb on wood table

    Ingredients needed:

    • Buttermilk
    • Butter
    • Egg
    • Fresh rhubarb and strawberries
    • All-purpose flour
    • Brown Sugar
    • Baking soda and salt
    • Pecans
    • Cinnamon

    How to make these strawberry rhubarb muffins:

    1. To mix the muffin batter, you'll combine the buttermilk, melted butter, and egg with the rhubarb and strawberries. In a separate bowl, you'll combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. This will all get mixed together into a thick batter and added to the muffin pan.Strawberry Rhubarb Muffin batter
    2. Next you will combine the chopped pecans, brown sugar, flour, cold butter, and cinnamon to form the streusel topping. Strawberry Rhubarb Muffin batter with Pecan Streusel Topping
    3. Bake the muffins in a pre-heated oven and enjoy! These muffins won't rise up super tall and beautiful like my blueberry muffins do, but boy were they delicious!

    Cooking tips:

    • You can use frozen fruit instead of fresh. Just be sure to fully thaw the fruit first. Frozen strawberries will release liquid as they thaw. Only use the fruit and reserve any liquid for something else.
    • Be sure the butter for the topping is very cold. You want the butter to but cut into very small pieces so that it melts as it bakes.
    • Store the muffins in an air tight container. They should last a day or two on the counter but should be refrigerated or frozen for longer storage.
    baked Muffin made with strawberries and rhubarb split in half

    Related recipes:

    Love the flavors of strawberry and rhubarb? Me too! Here are some of my favorites.

    • Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler
    • Classic Strawberry Shortcake
    • Strawberry Pretzel Salad {Strawberry Pretzel Dessert}
    • Fresh Strawberry Pie
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    • Fresh Rhubarb Pie
    • Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
    • Strawberry Rhubarb Coffee Cake

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    Indulge in this naughty summer treat. Strawberry Rhubarb Streusel Muffins are made with fresh strawberries and tart rhubarb wrapped in a brown sugar batter.

    Strawberry Rhubarb Streusel Muffins

    Indulge in this naughty summer treat. Strawberry Rhubarb Streusel Muffins are made with fresh strawberries and tart rhubarb wrapped in a brown sugar batter.
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    Course: Breakfast, Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 25 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
    Scale: 12 muffins
    Recipe Created By: Krissy Allori

    Ingredients

    muffin:

    • ½ cup buttermilk
    • ¼ cup butter (melted and slightly cooled)
    • 1 egg
    • ¾ cup fresh rhubarb (diced)
    • ¾ cup fresh strawberries (diced)
    • 1 ⅓ cups flour
    • ⅔ cup brown sugar
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ¼ teaspoon salt

    streusel topping:

    • ⅓ cup chopped pecans
    • ⅓ cup brown sugar
    • ⅓ cup all purpose flour
    • ⅓ cup butter (cold and cut into small cubes)
    • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

    Instructions

    • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin tin with 12 muffin liners or grease with butter.
    • To make the muffins, combine the buttermilk, melted butter and egg in large bowl. Mix well. Stir in strawberry and rhubarb.
    • In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, brown sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix with wet ingredients and stir to combine. Do not over mix. Batter will be thick.
    • To make the streusel, combine the pecans, sugar, flour, cinnamon and butter, and mix until butter becomes crumbly. A pastry cutter might be necessary to get the butter mixed. Store topping in bowl in freezer until ready to use.
    • Scoop batter to fill each well about ⅔ of the way full and then top with a spoonful of streusel mixture.
    • Bake in preheated oven for about 20-25 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. Allow to sit in muffin pan once removed from the oven for about 5 minutes before transferring the muffins to a cooling rack.

    Notes

    Makes 12 muffins. Serving size = 1 muffin.
    • You can use frozen fruit instead of fresh. Just be sure to fully thaw the fruit first. Frozen strawberries will release liquid as they thaw. Only use the fruit and reserve any liquid for something else.
    • Be sure the butter for the topping is very cold. You want the butter to but cut into very small pieces so that it melts as it bakes.
    • Store the muffins in an air tight container. They should last a day or two on the counter but should be refrigerated or frozen for longer storage.

    NUTRITION INFORMATION

    Calories: 236kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 38mg | Sodium: 194mg | Potassium: 105mg | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 320IU | Vitamin C: 5.9mg | Calcium: 44mg | Iron: 1mg
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    This recipe was originally published in July 2014 and has been updated with helpful information, ingredient and process photos, as well as recipe tips. Don't worry - the recipe hasn't changed!

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    Comments

    1. Karen

      May 14, 2021 at 4:08 am

      To make jumbo muffins, do I double the recipe?

      Reply
      • Krissy

        May 16, 2021 at 7:11 am

        Yes, but you will need to increase the baking time too.

        Reply
    2. Sheila Smith

      June 11, 2019 at 1:23 pm

      I haven’t made these yet and they look like a great recipe! I’m going to add nutmeg to the batter and bake them in muffin top tin. Everyone I know loves the muffin top version because of the delicious crispy tops! Regardless, you cannot go wrong with muffins or muffin tops! I’ll report how it goes!

      Reply
    3. Patty

      July 26, 2018 at 8:23 am

      Hi Krissy
      I am a out to make these delicious looking muffins. Do you know if they freeze well? Thanks, Patty

      Reply
      • Krissy

        July 26, 2018 at 2:53 pm

        Yep! Just make sure they're fully cooled before you freeze them. I like to wrap them tightly to keep the air out.

        Reply
    4. Shari

      June 24, 2018 at 5:10 pm

      Should the streusel have flour in it. I tried making these, but trying to get the mixture crumbly wasn't working. I decided to add some flour. I still didn't get enough in it. My muffins are a hot mess. I put cupcake liners in the pan, the butter from the topping is all melted and has soaked the liners and left little puddles of butter in the muffin tins.

      Reply
      • Krissy

        June 28, 2018 at 12:21 pm

        Oh dear. Now I feel like a hot mess! It's been awhile since I've made these muffins but I can't imagine not having the flour in the topping either. I'm gonna go back and add it to the recipe. I'm so sorry!!!

        Reply
    5. ann

      May 21, 2018 at 12:50 pm

      you eliminated the amount of cinnamon needed for the topping from the list of ingredients

      Reply
      • Krissy

        May 22, 2018 at 4:39 pm

        Doh! Sorry about that. Fixed!

        Reply
    6. Gillian Fozard

      May 13, 2017 at 1:06 pm

      Would like to try this recipe but don't know what 1/2 cube of butter is. Our comes in a solid package. Always looking for new rhubarb recipes.
      Thanks
      Gill

      Reply
      • Krissy

        May 19, 2017 at 5:15 am

        4 tablespoons.

        Reply
        • Colleen

          May 07, 2018 at 12:03 pm

          Just stumbled across this recipe as I’m trying to use up rhubarb from the garden. How much butter should be in the muffin batter? It’s listed as “¼ half a cube of butter”... is that ⅛ of a stick of butter?

          Reply
          • Krissy

            May 14, 2018 at 9:40 am

            Hi Colleen, Sorry about that! I switch software that messed up a couple of my recipes. I went ahead and updated and it should look much better now. I meant for it to read 1/4 cup butter (half a stick). Thanks for bringing it to my attention! Krissy

            Reply

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