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    Home » Breakfast & Brunch » Muffins

    Cherry Vanilla Yogurt Muffins

    Published: Jun 19, 2014 · by Kim Lange · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    Cherry Vanilla Yogurt Muffins
    Home-Made Cherry Vanilla Yogurt Muffins

    These delicious home-made muffins are made with yummy ingredients like vanilla yogurt and dark sweet cherries galore. Home-Made Cherry Vanilla Yogurt Muffins, please!  How does that sound? 

    It's a dessert in a muffin if you ask me! 

    Home-Made Cherry Vanilla Yogurt Muffins

    I get those days when I feel like, "OOKKKAYYY Kimberly!!!

    You need some balance here girlfriend, you've been a really bad, bad girl lately, so let's make some healthy-ish muffins instead of eating all that chocolate cake, "Phenomenal" Milk Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies and brownies!!"

    Cherry Vanilla Yogurt Muffins

    I love muffins, but the ones you get in the grocery are so over-processed with ingredients you can't even pronounce.  They give me a bad vibe most of the time and they don't have that home-made taste to me, but that's just my opinion.

    I like to be able to pronounce and know what I'm eating when I gorge myself, thank you very much.

    So, I decided to whip up some healthy, delicious melt-in-your-mouth muffins loaded with some big, juicy red cherries.  Cherries just sound cheery don't they?

    So, I guess the phrase "Life is a bowl of cherries!", reflects cheery because it translates as "Life is good" and "Everything is peachy-keen" or should I say "cherry-keen"?

    They are perfectly moist because of the Greek yogurt (boost of protein!) and applesauce used in the recipe.  Delicious for breakfast, snacking, packing or on the go. Get you some! 🙂

    Why Cherries are so good for you! 

    • Helps fight cancer and disease!  Cherries are full of antioxidants and help repair or prevent damage done to cells by free radicals.
    • Cherries are rich in Queritrin--a flavonoid,  ellagic acid and pherillyl alcohol (POH), all which have been found to be one of the most potent anti-cancer agents to fight off all the body’s cancerous cells as well as preventative.
    • Helps relieve pain of arthritis and gout, helps eliminate oxidative stress, prevents prematuring aging, helps cure migraines, and helps with the body clock and sleep. All that in cherries...they're packed with goodies!

    If you don’t have cherries, you could try blueberries, peaches or strawberries.  If you have to have chocolate for some added sweetness, (Trust me, I'm just as shocked as you are that I didn't add it in) you can add in any flavor of chocolate chips for an added treat.

    I'm thinking dark chocolate would be absolutely heaven in these!  Make them today!  10 minutes to prepare and 25-30 minutes in the oven and you're good to go!

    Here's this recipe Cherry lovers!   Take a look at these Chocolate Chip Yogurt Muffins and Fresh Strawberry Yogurt Cake for breakfast ideas!

    More Cherry recipes?  

    • OMG! Heavenly Cherry Cheesecake Swirl Brownies
    • Red Tart Cherry Crumble Pie
    • Chocolate Cherry Oreo Dessert
    • Very Cherry Cheesecake Poke Cake
    • Cherry Chip Cookies
    • The Perfect Cheesecake Experience
    • Cherry Cream Cheese Biscoff Delight
    Home-Made Cherry Vanilla Yogurt Muffins

    Home-made Cherry Vanilla Yogurt Muffins

    Kim Lange
    These delicious home-made muffins are made with yummy ingredients like vanilla yogurt. applesauce and cherries galore. Home-Made Cherry Vanilla Yogurt Muffins, please!  How does that sound?  It's a dessert in a muffin if you ask me! 
    4.15 from 7 votes
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 25 mins
    Course Breakfast, Brunch, Snack
    Cuisine American
    Servings 12
    Calories

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
    • 1 large egg
    • ¾ cup Vanilla Greek yogurt
    • ½ cup sugar of choice
    • ½ cup ½ cup canola oil or oil of choice, for lower calories, use ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
    • ⅓ cup milk of choice
    • 2 - 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
    • 1 ½ cups sour or sweet cherries, pitted and coarsely chopped fresh or frozen, toss with 1 tablespoon flour before adding to muffin mixture

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line your muffin pan with liners or spray with baking spray. I used silicone muffin pans and sprayed it with olive oil spray. Set aside.
    • In one bowl, add flour, salt, baking powder together and mix with a whisk.
    • In another bowl, lightly beat egg and add in yogurt, sugar, oil or applesauce, vanilla and milk and mix until well blended.
    • Add dry mixture to wet mixture until just blended. (Don't over mix - you will get tough muffins!)
    • Toss fresh or frozen cherries with 1 tablespoon flour & 1 tablespoon sugar before adding to muffin mixture and fold about 3-4 times and then scoop muffin mixture into prepared muffin cups. Will rise ½ inch or more.
    • Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until tops become golden brown.
    • Recipe makes 12-14 regular muffins.
    Keyword cherry, Greek yogurt, healthy, muffins
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    Hi! I'm Kim! As you may know, I'm cookie, brownie and chocolate obsessed! You'll find hundreds of decadent and healthy dessert recipes to choose from here! So, let's bake something easy and never forget the chocolate!

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    1. Coly says

      July 27, 2015 at 2:22 pm

      My 9y/o made these for breakfast this morning for our family ( 8,5,4 y/o siblings)!!! We loooooved them!!!!

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