What caused my blueberry muffins to come out flat?
I made blueberry muffins two times.
The first time I used unbleached flour. I don't remember if I used salted or unsalted butter then. They came out looking like from a bakery.
The second time, I used bleached flour and salted butter. They came out flat and didn't look nice. Was it the flour or the butter which made the difference?
Best Answer
The difference was definitely not caused by the salted or unsalted butter. It is also very unlikely that the problem was the flour.
Some of the usual reasons for muffins to come out flat are:
- you forgot the baking powder (but then they are a complete failure, I guess you would have noticed if that had happened)
- you measured by volume instead of by weight. This is very imprecise and can easily result in too little baking powder for the amount of other ingredients. You should use a recipe given in grams and a kitchen scale, if you want consistent results.
- you let the prepared batter sit for too long before putting it into the oven, and the baking powder spent itself before the baking began
- you baked at a wrong temperature, so the batter hardened either too early or too late.
- you used ingredients at the wrong temperature (your eggs came from the fridge, your butter wasn't softened or you tried to soften it in a warm place and it melted, etc.) Always start with room temperature ingredients for baking.
You don't give us enough information to know which happened, but if you want to have good muffins every time, avoid these common mistakes and your muffins have a good chance of looking good in every batch.
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you baked at a wrong temperature, so the batter hardened either too early or too late. you used ingredients at the wrong temperature (your eggs came from the fridge, your butter wasn't softened or you tried to soften it in a warm place and it melted, etc.) Always start with room temperature ingredients for baking.Why are my blueberry muffins flat?
As a general rule, your muffins will come out flat because they are underbaked, you used inactive or insufficient leavening ingredients, or you didn't mix your ingredients correctly. Follow the muffin recipe precisely to get the muffins to rise.What causes muffins to go flat?
When the cell structure doesn't set, the air spaces created by the leavening in the recipe collapses, causing the muffin to sink. Oven temperatures vary over time. To insure the correct temperature each time you bake, always use an oven thermometer. The oven temperature in the recipe may not have been hot enough.How do you keep muffins from flattening?
Fill your cupcake liners 3/4 of the way full. If you fill them more than that, they'll have no room left to expand, and they will collapse. If you fill them less than that, there will be so much space for them to expand that they won't be able to reach. 3/4 is key.Blueberry Muffins
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Answer 2
I'd bet you stirred the batter to much. When adding the dry ingredients, you should fold them in, not stir, and don't over fold either. Once the dry ingredients are incorporated, stop.
Answer 3
I'd say either baking powder or you opened the oven's door while it was baking. I've experienced that both of them could be the reason of the flat muffins.
Also, the oven should be hot enough when you want to put the batter in it. Sift the flour and mix baking powder with it before adding it to the batter.
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