12 Best Christmas Muffin Recipes

 

A fresh batch of these Christmas muffin recipes on a holiday morning is one of our favorite little traditions around here.

 

 

Sometimes it’s simple, sometimes it’s fancy, but it’s always festive and tasty.

Muffins are one of my favorite ways to spoil my family during Christmas.

After all, when else can you have something sweet for breakfast?

I occasionally get up early to make a batch of blueberry cream cheese muffins fresh from the oven.

Muffins usually freeze well, so make some room and fill it with as many of these sweet treats as you can!

 

Christmas Muffin Recipes

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1. Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffins

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Blueberry cream cheese muffins are not your typical blueberry muffins, despite their appearance.

They’re soft, fluffy, and chock-full of fat, juicy berries, but there’s a rich, decadent cheesecake-like surprise inside.

 

2. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins (Christmas muffin recipes)

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These muffins with pumpkin and chocolate chips are tender, light treats packed with warm spices and lots of chocolate chips.

The perfect dessert, after-school treat, or party food is a pumpkin muffin.

When using pumpkin in baked goods, you can never go wrong. Pumpkin gooey butter cake and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are a couple of my favorites.

Make two batches of these pumpkin chocolate chip muffins because they freeze well and are a great fall snack to have on hand.

 

3. Bakery-Style Coffee Cake Muffins

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Bakery-Style Coffee Cake Muffins have the same flavor as coffee cake, only they are muffins.

They’re always a hit because they’re moist, flavorful, and covered in tons of buttery crumbs.

You’ll make this recipe for breakfast or brunch again and again!

Although there isn’t any coffee in these muffins in the style of a bakery, they taste fantastic with coffee!

 

4. Chocolate Chunk Banana Muffins (Christmas muffin recipes)

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These banana muffins are packed with chocolate chunks, making them a tasty breakfast treat.

Compared to my blueberry almond banana muffins, these chocolate chip muffins are a little more decadent.

They are scattered with tiny chocolate chunks. Like peas and carrots, but much, much better, chocolate and banana go well together.

 

5. Starbucks’ Hot Cocoa Chocolate Chip Muffins

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These muffins are chock-full of big chocolate chips and delicious chocolate flavor.

Muffins make excellent take-along breakfasts, and I’m always willing to try new things.

This time, I wanted to use up some Starbucks hot cocoa mix that we had purchased at Christmas.

Instead of throwing away the cocoa, I decided to make a muffin recipe with it as an ingredient.

I’m glad I did because these chocolate chip muffins were a big hit!

 

6. Cranberry Eggnog Muffins (Christmas muffin recipes)

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I make warm muffins with leftover eggnog and cranberry sauce because no one in my household wants to finish them.

What a fantastic recipe! For eggnog, adding a vanilla spice flavor enhances the flavor even more, but the recipe alone is still delicious. long after the muffins have been taken out of the oven, they are still incredibly moist and delicious.

We almost always have leftovers because no one in my family enjoys cranberries. In this year, we won’t!

 

7. Mini Cherry Muffins

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For Christmas morning, these lovely muffins are ideal. Prepare them the previous evening, then store them in an airtight container on the counter.

These are delicious—more like a cupcake than a muffin, though—and I just made them for the first time today.

The extract gives them a great almond flavor and a very buttery, tender crumb.

I’m going to make these again!

 

8. Pecan Pie Muffins (Christmas muffin recipes)

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Pecan Pie Muffins are a cross between a pie and a muffin. They have a muffin texture with a soft gooey inside, similar to a mini Southern pecan pie.

This is one of the most popular recipes in the fall, especially for Thanksgiving!

With only five ingredients, these Pecan Pie Muffins are incredibly simple to make.

They have crispy chewy edges and a soft gooey center.

If you’re afraid of butter, you should just leave now. Just saying. The only way to mess these up is to not properly grease your pan. Baker’s Joy spray works wonderfully here.

 

9. Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins

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The base for these apple cinnamon muffins is a simple muffin batter flavored with cinnamon, brown sugar, and plenty of juicy apples.

We make blueberry muffins with the same base recipe because the simple batter yields moist, soft, and cakey muffins with tall muffin tops.

They are always a crowd-pleaser! Serve the muffins plain or with a crumb topping and smooth vanilla icing before baking.

You’ll love these apple muffins if you like apple cinnamon bread!

 

10. Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins (Christmas muffin recipes)

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Lemon poppy seed muffins are moist and bursting with bright citrus flavor, and drizzled with a perfectly sweet lemon glaze.

You don’t need to go to a bakery for the perfect lemon poppy seed muffin because it’s packed with fresh lemon zest and juice.

My simple recipe yields moist and tender muffins with just a few simple ingredients and an easy stir-together method!

All you need to go with these is a hot cup of tea or coffee.

 

11. Homemade Wild Blueberry Muffins

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Are you sick and tired of the same old yellow cake mix in a box that calls itself a blueberry muffin mix?

Make it real, make it right by omitting the artificial coloring and additives from this homemade wild blueberry muffin version, which you’re sure to love just as much!

To get the right flavor, you must use frozen WILD blueberries.

These are available in your grocery store’s freezer section. And I won’t lie, they aren’t cheap, but the bag is huge and will yield several batches of muffins.

 

12. Christmas Chocolate Chio Muffins Recipe (Christmas muffin recipes)

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Christmas Muffins are chocolate chip muffins with a touch of sweet red and green thrown in! Crisp golden outside, soft and sweet inside!

Making festive recipes doesn’t have to be difficult.

These muffins are an excellent example. All you need are healthy ingredients, just the right amount of sweetness, and a splash of Christmas color!

They aren’t fussy, but they feel special and are ideal for the Christmas season.

Then serve with homemade eggnog or hot chocolate!

 

 

I love all of these Christmas breakfast ideas! Which ones are you going to try first? Write down your comments below!

 

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