Almond Flour Blueberry Muffins

Healthy Almond Flour Blueberry Muffins are tender, fluffy and naturally gluten free! Made with almond flour, Greek yogurt, and sweetened with maple syrup they are perfect for a grab and go breakfast or snack.

Almond flour banana muffins and almond flour strawberry muffins are a few of our favorites!

Considering my love for almond flour muffins and blueberries, I’m surprised these almond flour blueberry muffins haven’t come sooner. They are inspired by my healthy blueberry muffins and almond muffins with berries.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

I’ve spent a lot of time perfecting my baking with almond flour skills. The addition of almond flour helps yield a super moist and hearty blueberry muffins with almond flour that the entire family will love.

• They are naturally gluten-free blueberry muffins that are also refined sugar free, oil free, dairy-free and grain-free.
• According to Healthline, almond flour is high in protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals.
• These healthy muffins require just 10 ingredients and are ready in 30 minutes.
• Yields light, fluffy, moist, and fruity muffins.
• Enjoy immediately or freeze for up to 3 months.

Ingredients in Almond Flour Blueberry Muffins

With only a few nutrient dense, real food ingredients almond flour blueberry muffins are bursting with light nutty taste and fresh blueberries!

• Almond flour: Superfine blanched almond flour is best. Coarse almond flour and almond meal should work but will have a slightly denser texture. You can buy it or here is quick tutorial how to make almond flour at home.
• Blueberries: You can use fresh or frozen blueberries.
• Eggs: You’ll need 3 large eggs.
• Sweetener: Maple syrup and honey are my favorite options, though most liquid sweeteners should work. Liquid sugar free options like keto maple syrup will work.
• Greek Yogurt: This helps to add fat and moisture to the muffins. Use 2% fat or higher for best results.
• Baking powder and baking soda: These leavening agents provide lift and fluffy texture to the muffins.
• Salt: All you need is a pinch to balance and enhance the overall flavor.
• Vanilla extract: Use natural pure vanilla extract for best results.  
• Citrus zest: While this is technically optional, I recommend adding it for extra flavor. You can use lemon zest or orange zest.
• Misto: Or cooking spray for your muffin tin and liners.

How to Make Almond Flour Blueberry Muffins

Here’s a quick overview how to make almond flour blueberry muffins. Full recipe card is located below.

• Mix the liquid ingredients: In a large bowl, combine eggs, maple syrup, yogurt, vanilla extract, citrus zest, leavening agents, and salt. Whisk well until there are no lumps. Fold in almond flour and mix.
• Add the blueberries: First, combine the blueberries with 1 tablespoon of almond flour in a small bowl and toss to coat them well. Then add the blueberries to the muffin batter and carefully fold them into the mixture with a spatula.
• Bake the muffins: Use an ice cream scoop to divide the muffin batter between the 12 openings of a muffin pan. Then bake muffins in the oven on the middle rack for around 20 minutes.
• Cool: Remove them from the oven and allow them to cool for at least 15 minutes before enjoying!

Tips for Best Results

• Don’t skip coating blueberries in flour: It helps to prevent them from sinking to the bottom of the batter.
• Muffins are ready when: A toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean. With a few crumbs is fine, but not “wet”.
• Ovens vary: Almond flour tends to burn fast and bakes faster than regular flour. All ovens vary. Keep an eye on your muffins and check on them at 17 minute mark.
• Frozen blueberries: You can use frozen blueberries as per recipe but don’t thaw them.
• Avoid dry sugar: The wet sweetener is needed for correct batter consistency, so I don’t recommend trying to use a granulated sweetener instead.
• Use paper liners: I highly recommend using lightly greased parchment paper muffin liners. I sprayed mine with cooking spray. That’s because almond flour blueberry muffins tend to stick even to the most well sprayed muffin tray, even silicone muffin pan.

Substitutions and Additions

• Other berries: It’s possible to use a combination of berries or swap out the blueberries entirely for other berries like raspberries, cranberries, chopped strawberries.
• Yogurt: You can use plain regular yogurt (not Greek yogurt), however might have to add 1/4 cup extra almond flour since it contains more liquid (whey). You can also use flavored yogurt. The goal is to bring batter to consistency in the photos, thicker than for pancakes.
• Nuts: Add up to 1/2 cup of chopped nuts like walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts or pistachios.
• Sweeter muffins: Sometimes if you use less sweet blueberries or frozen blueberries, muffins will not be sweet enough. Add 2-4 tablespoons of maple syrup to the batter next time.
• Other flours: If you want to use regular all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, or spelt flour, even coconut flour, unfortunately you can’t do it with this gluten-free muffins recipe. It’s because it has gluten and acts differently. Try these healthy blueberry banana muffins, healthy lemon blueberry muffins or blueberry lemon muffins instead.

How to Store

Store: Store almond flour blueberry muffins at room temperature between 2-3 days or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, loosely covered rather than in an airtight container. Because these are moist muffins, it’s best to let them “breathe” slightly.

Freeze: To freeze, place cooled muffins in an airtight container with parchment paper between the layers of muffins and freeze for up to three months. When you want one, you can allow it to thaw in the fridge overnight or warm up from frozen.

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More Almond Flour Recipes to Try

• Almond flour zucchini muffins
• Almond flour pumpkin muffins
• Healthy blueberry breakfast cake
• Almond flour yogurt muffins
• Almond flour lemon poppy seed muffins

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