These cake mix blueberry muffins are made with a box of cake mix and a simple streusel topping. Bakery style muffins made in a fraction of the time!
Cake mix recipes are one of our favorite time saving hacks for making delicious homemade treats in a fraction of the time.
Some of our favorite recipes include cake mix funfetti cookies, cake mix banana bread, cake mix brownies, and cake mix chocolate chip cookies.
These cake mix blueberry muffins are incredibly light and fluffy, sweet, and taste like they are fresh from a bakery.
We love making muffins from cake mix like these cake mix chocolate chip muffins and cake mix banana muffins.
Craving something sweet for breakfast or a snack?
With homemade simple streusel and a hint of fresh lemon zest, these are guaranteed to be an irresistible treat you will love!
It’s a toss up between whether these or my mini chocolate chip muffins are my favorite muffin ever.
Ingredients needed to make blueberry muffins
- 1 box of vanilla cake mix
- fresh blueberries
- eggs
- lemon zest
- olive oil or vegetable oil
- milk
- butter, flour & brown sugar: for the streusel topping
How to make muffins from cake mix
Step 1: Grate the lemon zest fresh.
Add the eggs, milk, lemon zest, and olive oil to a bowl.
Whisk the wet ingredients until completely combined.
Step 2: Open up a box of vanilla cake mix and place it in a bowl.
Mix the wet ingredients into the cake mix, stirring until just combined.
Step 3: Rinse and pat the blueberries dry.
Fold the blueberries into the cake mix muffin batter gently with a rubber spatula.
Step 4: Make the streusel topping for the blueberry muffins. Combine the melted butter, brown sugar, and flour in a bowl.
Stir until the mixture is combined like the picture below.
Step 5: Line a muffin tin with muffin liners. Distribute the blueberry muffin batter evenly into the muffin tins.
Step 6: Distribute the streusel topping over the muffin batter.
Step 7: Bake the cake mix blueberry muffins at 350 degrees for 23-28 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
You kitchen will be smelling like a bakery.
These muffins not only taste incredible but no one will guess they are made from cake mix: our little secret!
While I love making homemade sour cream blueberry muffins, these are a great muffin to make when I need a shortcut!
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- Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
- Monster Cookie Bars
- Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
- Cake Mix Pumpkin Muffins
Love blueberry muffins? Be sure to also bake some of these mini blueberry muffins!
Cake Mix Blueberry Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh blueberries rinsed and patted dry
- 15 oz box vanilla cake mix
- 3 eggs beaten
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon zest
- ½ cup milk
- ⅓ cup olive oil or vegetable oil
For the streusel topping
- ⅓ cup flour
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
Instructions
- Add the vanilla cake mix to a large mixing bowl
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, lemon zest, and oil
- Stir the wet ingredients into the cake mix until just combined using a rubber spatula
- Fold in the fresh blueberries
- To make the streusel, combine the flour, brown sugar, and melted butter in a small bowl until the mixture resembles wet sand
- Line a muffin tin with 12 liners
- Distribute the muffin batter into the muffin cups. Top with the streusel topping
- Bake the blueberry muffins at 350 degrees for 23-28 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean
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Sue
Saturday 3rd of February 2024
Use lemon cake mix - delicious!
Joy Shull
Wednesday 7th of February 2024
Great idea!
Noreen
Thursday 18th of January 2024
Great recipe!! I’ll make this again
Lisa
Monday 18th of December 2023
Can you use frozen blueberries
Joy Shull
Wednesday 27th of December 2023
Yes that should be fine
Daphne
Sunday 10th of September 2023
These came out really good. I used sugar free cake mix and frozen huckleberries.
Tiffany
Monday 4th of September 2023
These are so good. I added a little cinnamon to the topping. Yum!