These fluffy raspberry muffins with sweet crumb topping, white chocolate chips and orange zest are seriously irresistible! Made in just 35 minutes, these moist and tender muffins are perfect for breakfast, brunch, or afternoon snack.
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Why I Love These White Chocolate Raspberry Muffins
Beginner-friendly, heavenly raspberry muffins are a recipe everyone needs to pack your days with sweetness. My kids are all notoriously picky eaters, but they all agree that these raspberry muffins are the best summery sweet treats! Between the fluffy texture, the buttery crumb topping, the fresh pops of raspberry and the sweetness from white chocolate chips, there’s a whole lot to love in every bite of these homemade muffins. Check out why I always happily say yes when my kids ask me to make them:
- Easy as a Box-Mix: You only need to whisk to combine the batter, fold in the fillings, add the batter to the liners, and bake!
- Quick: Looking for a quick muffin for breakfast? These muffins require just 35 minutes of your time, and half of that is hands-off baking time.
- Fruity: Fresh raspberries and zesty orange combine with sweet vanilla to enhance the fruits’ tartness… While the milky white chocolate chips add the perfect balance.
- Great for Every Occasion: Birthdays, Mother’s Day, brunch or regular weekdays are perfect for digging into these sweet and tender raspberry muffins.
Looking for more fruity muffins? Try these classic banana muffins, gorgeous swirled pumpkin cream cheese muffins or impressive blueberry cream cheese muffins!
Key Ingredients
Tart raspberries, white chocolate, and orange zest are a dreamy flavor combination. Below you will find helpful notes for key ingredients used to make homemade raspberry muffins. Scroll down to the recipe card for the full ingredient list and exact amounts!
- Granulated Sugar: Light brown sugar works too.
- Greek Yogurt: Make sure it’s plain and unsweetened, or you can use sour cream instead.
- Vanilla Extract: Feel free to use almond or orange extract, but cut the amount to only 1/2 teaspoon.
- All-Purpose Flour: You can use cake flour instead.
- Baking Powder: Make sure it’s not expired. Always check the label!
- Salt: Skip it if you used salted butter in the recipe.
- Milk: Any dairy milk is perfect, but using a milk with fat (like whole milk or 2%) will give you the best texture.
- Fresh Raspberries: Frozen (thawed) raspberries work too, but fresh raspberries are best for their light texture.
- White Chocolate Chips: Chopped white chocolate will also work!
- Orange Zest: Freshly-grated is best.
How to Make Raspberry White Chocolate Muffins
This light and airy raspberry muffins recipe requires a few simple steps. Have your ingredients ready to go before beginning. Below is a quick overview, but please scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post for full instructions.
- Wet ingredients: In a large bowl, whisk the butter, sugar, and yogurt until smooth. Whisk in the egg and vanilla extract.
- Dry ingredients: Mix in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the milk and whisk until smooth. Fold in the raspberries, chocolate chips, and zest.
- Fill the tray: Pour batter into the prepared muffin tin lined with paper liners, filling each liner until 3/4 of the way full.
- Crumb topping: Whisk together flour and sugar in a small bowl, and then stir in melted butter until crumbly. Sprinkle streusel topping evenly over the muffin batter.
- Bake: Pop them into the oven and bake until lightly golden. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.
Chef’s Tips and Variations
- More Add-Ins: Add 1/2 cup slivered almonds, chopped pecans, or shredded coconut into the batter for extra texture and flavor.
- Lemon Raspberry: Use lemon zest (or lime zest) in place of the orange zest to change the flavor profile but maintain the zestiness.
- Skip the Liners: Grease the muffin tray with non-stick spray or butter. Pour in the batter directly. This is a quick fix in case you’re out of liners.
- Add a Glaze: Whisk to combine 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract to create a sweet glaze. Drizzle on top of cooled muffins.
- Chocolate: Swap the white chocolate chips for dark chocolate chips!
Raspberry Muffins
Ingredients
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup plain greek yogurt, or sour cream
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 pint fresh raspberries
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon fresh orange zest, optional
Crumb Topping
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Place paper muffin liners into muffin pan. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together butter, sugar and greek yogurt until smooth. Whisk in egg and vanilla extract.
- Add flour, baking powder and salt and begin to stir. Add in milk and whisk until smooth. Fold in raspberries, white chocolate chips and orange zest.
- Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin pan, filling each cup 3/4 way full.
- In a small bowl, whisk to combine the flour, sugar and salt. Add the melted butter and stir with a fork until crumbly (can also beat with a hand mixer until crumbly). Top each muffin with about 2 to 3 tablespoons of streusel mixture and gently press down.
- Bake for 20 to 22 minutes, until the tops begin to lightly brown. Let muffins cool in muffin tin for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
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White Chocolate and raspberry are two of my favorite flavors! These muffins look so decadent!
These muffins are so pretty! I’m so glad I found this recipe, they will be so perfect for our weekend mornings.
Those sound sooo good, raspberry and white chocolate is the perfect combination!
These flavors are perfect! That’s awesome you have your girls help you in the kitchen 🙂
I love these flavors, I adore these muffins!
You are so patient to allow your girls to help you in the kitchen! When my boys want to help I know there’s going to be a huge mess! The raspberries in these muffins are calling my name! I could eat one, or five, for breakfast!