You will want to wake up for these fluffy Mixed Berry Muffins! They come together quickly and are bursting with juicy strawberries, raspberries and blueberries.
Muffins are the perfect grab-and-go breakfast or sweet treat like our popular blueberry muffins, soft apple banana muffins or breakfast egg muffins. Who can resist a warm homemade muffin?
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Mixed Berry Muffins Recipe:
These triple berry muffins are made with Greek yogurt which makes them healthier with the added protein. If you don’t have Greek yogurt, sour cream will work equally well. Either way, the muffins turn out soft, fluffy, moist and tasty.
Can I use Frozen Berries for Muffins?
Fresh berries are ideal and if you can only find 1 type of berry, you can use 1 1/2 cups of a single berry i.e. strawberry muffins or raspberry muffins.
When berries are out of season, unavailable or way too expensive, you can substitute frozen mixed berries (no need to thaw). Here’s a tip I picked up from The Kitchn on baking with berries:
- Roll Frozen berries lightly in a small bowl of flour and add them to the batter.
- Fold frozen berries into the batter just enough to incorporate and stop mixing when you start seeing streaks of color.
- Over-mixing with frozen berries will cause your muffins to be greenish-blue or pink.
Why do berries sink to the bottom of muffins?
Berries will sink in muffins or cakes due to loose batter. They can also sink if using too many berries as the weight will pull them down.
If you’re questioning if you can add fruit to a cake batter and the batter is too thin, it’s probably a bad idea. The batter in this recipe is thick so berries will stay evenly distributed without sinking to the bottom.
How to Make Triple Berry Muffins:
Homemade muffins is easy peasy and following this method produces super soft and moist muffins with a perfect muffin top.
- Beat together eggs and sugar until thick and light in color
- Mix in remaining wet ingredients: Greek yogurt, oil, vanilla
- In a separate bowl, whisk together dry ingredients: flour, baking powder
- Whisk dry ingredients into wet ingredients in thirds
- Fold in berries, divide into lined cupcake tin (Amazon affiliate link) and bake
If you love your muffins glazed, this lemon glaze is a must try!
Love Berry Recipes? Try these next:
- Blueberry Pie bursting with blueberries
- Strawberry Cake with an unbelievable strawberry sauce
- Blueberry Crumble is bursting with blueberries with a crisp topping
- Strawberry Pretzel “Salad” is an easy, potluck favorite!
Mixed Berry Muffins

Ingredients
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup Greek yogurt , (or sour cream)
- 1/2 cup extra LIGHT olive oil, (not extra virgin)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour , *measured correctly
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup strawberries, hulled and diced
- 1/2 cup raspberries
- 1/2 cup blueberries
Instructions
- Line a 12-count muffin tin with cupcake liners and preheat oven to 400˚F. In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, beat 2 eggs with 1 cup granulated sugar on high speed 5 minutes, or until thick and light in color.
- Add 1 cup Greek yogurt, 1/2 cup oil, 1 tsp vanilla. Set mixer to low speed and mix just until combined.
- In a small bowl, add 2 cups flour, 2 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp salt and whisk to combine. Using a hand held whisk, add flour mixture into the batter 1/3 at a time, stirring to incorporate with each addition. DO NOT OVERMIX or muffins will be dense.
- Use a spatula to fold in 1 1/2 cups mixed berries, folding just until combined.
- Divide batter into prepared muffin tip, filling to the top or until all of the batter is used up. Bake in the center of the oven at 400˚F for 20-22 minutes or until tops are golden and a toothpick inserted into the center come out clean. Transfer muffins to a wire rack to cool. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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I love that my 3-year old is so into baking. She loved making these mixed berry muffins as much as she enjoyed eating them! And you’re probably wondering why I wasn’t wearing my princess costume as well… 😉
Very good !! I doubled the recipe and it came out great. I made mini and regular muffin size. I also substituted applesauce for the olive oil for an even healthier version.
Glad to hear that, Eileen. Thank you for sharing.
Too bad mine stuck to the cupcake liners! I should have trusted my gut and just pour the batter into greased muffin tins.
Hi Jennifer, I haven’t had that experience to advise on what could have caused it. I read through the comments and don’t see anything similar, either. I’m not sure if anything was substituted or altered in the recipe, but note substitutions may hinder the recipe outcome. I hope it works out better for you next time.
I have not had success with past recipes for berry muffins. The berries always sank to the bottom. This recipe was so good! And, the best ever. No sinking berries, so moist, and so delicious!
Thank you for this wonderful recipe.
That is awesome feedback, thank you for sharing that with us!
Omg these were great. 10/10. And so easy!!! I used sour cream and sunflower oil.
So glad you loved these, Anja! Thank you.
These muffins are perfectly light and fluffy. I made them almost exactly to the recipe substituting avocado oil for the light olive oil (same quantity). I had frozen strawberries and blueberries (originally fresh) in my freezer so used the trick of rolling them in flour in their frozen state. Perfect! No bleeding of color and beautifully plump, moist and distributed evenly through the muffin.
I will freeze half the batch and see how they thaw.
Awesome! Thanks a lot for sharing that with us, Donna. Good to know that it was a success.
These are the best muffins I’ve made in ages. The crumb was perfect – airy and moist. I sprinkled a little sugar on top of each muffin before baking and it to produce a nice crisp like crust. I’ll make these often. I’m going to try freezing half a batch as it’s only the 2 of us and I don’t need all that temptation!
Hi Sandi! That’s great, I’m so glad they were enjoyed. I would love to know how they freeze. 🙂
I made these with only a BBQ to cook on. Out of necessity, due to lack of ingredients, I added coconut oil instead of olive oil, and also added a tsp of baking soda. I went with a plain yoghurt option as I had no Greek yoghurt, Demerara sugar as I had no white sugar, and used frozen mixed berries, which I combined right at the end. I heated one end of the closed BBQ to 400 degrees and put the muffin tins at the other end. They took 30 mins to cook and they taste amazing – light and delicious.
Wow! That is impressive. Thanks for sharing your experience, Tamsin. I’m glad they were delicious!
can I use frozen berries instead of fresh berries? I love your recipes!
Fresh berries are ideal but frozen will work too. Please check this portion in the recipe “Can I use Frozen Berries for Muffins?”.
If I don’t have sea salt, can I use kosher salt or regular salt?
Yes, that would be fine.
How can I cut down on the sugar to make diabetic friendly. I don’t do a lot of baking so not sure
Hi Henny! I have not tested this recipe using less sugar to advise how it would affect the rise or flavor. One of my readers commented that they used “slightly less” sugar and it was fine but I am not sure what that amount would be.
I used 3/4 cup sugar instead of a whole cup. It came out delicious and sweet. Thanks for the recipe Natasha!!!!
I love how light and airy these came out. I used a little bit of every berry, plus some cherries that I needed to use up. Very delicious.
Thank you for the wonderful feedback! So glad you enjoyed this recipe. 🙂
Omg these tasted amazing. I followed recipe exactly. Used frozen berries with the trick of tossing them in flour first and it stopped the batter turning purple!
They were so moist yet fluffy and didn’t last long!!
Great to hear, Genevieve! So glad it was enjoyed.
Very good! They came out nice and fluffy. I was scared they would overflow since Natasha said to fill it to the top! Luckily, they rose straight up.
I used sour cream instead of Greek yogurt as well as blueberries, strawberries, and blackberries. Great with a morning tea or coffee.
Helo Ashley, thanks for sharing your experience trying this recipe. Great to hear that your substitutions worked great and you loved the result!
These were absolutely delicious. I used only Boysenberries as I have a large patch in garden. I will try half white flour and half wheat next time.
Yum! I bet that was so good! Thank you so much for sharing that review with me!
Thanks Natasha this is my go-to muffin recipe. Sometimes I replace 1 cup flour with 1 cup almond flour (finely ground almonds) and top each muffin with a crumble mix before baking. Everyone asks for the recipe.
Hi Rita! Thank you for sharing that with us. So glad you enjoy this recipe.
Came out great! I replaced the oil with applesauce and replaced one egg with flaxseed and increased the milk a bit to loosen the batter.
I’m so happy you enjoyed that. Thank you for sharing that with us!
Thank you for the delicious recipe.I used 1, 5 oz cup of vanilla coconut milk yogurt instead of greek yogurt,and I didnt have vanilla so I used one half tsp of almond extract,about a tsp of cinnamon,and a tsp of lemon extract ,and I used frozen wyman mixed berries,and they tasted great!
Hi Laura, great to hear that you loved this recipe! Thank you for the review.
Very yummy! I did a few changes because of what I had/personal preference: regular plain yogurt, used blackberry vs raspberry, used canola oil, did 1cup whole wheat flour, added lemon zest/juice and cinnamon/nutmeg. I also did everything in a stand mixer except for combining the berries. From my changes I would have cut down on sugar since whole wheat can add sweetness. The muffin was super delicious and fluffy! I will definitely make it again! Thank you for the recipe!
Thank you so much for sharing that with me, Stefanie! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
These muffins are amazing! they work with mini muffins to! ( they make 48)
Thank you so much for sharing that with me, Erin! I’m so happy you enjoyed that!
Do i need to use muffin tins?This is my first time making them.
Hi Erin, we make them in cupcake tins to make them salle, but they can also be made in a muffin tin.
These sound super good! Would it work for mini muffins? If so how many would it make?
How long would it take to bake?
Hi Erin, while I haven’t tried to make these as mini muffins to advise on bake time, I imagine that will work! One of our readers wrote: “this made a dozen regular muffins and a dozen mini muffins for me (I added 2 cups of frozen berries) just sweet enough!” I hope this helps.