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Delicious and light, these White Chocolate Saskatoon Muffins are packed with fresh Saskatoons and white chocolate chips. The unique flavor of Saskatoons shines through this tender vanilla-flavored muffin with a hint of sweet white chocolate.
Why I Think You’ll Love This Recipe
- This recipe makes 12 muffins that are perfect for weekday lunches!
- This is an easy recipe that also works with blueberries!
White Chocolate Saskatoon Muffins
These moist muffins with Saskatoons combine my love of Saskatoons with white chocolate, which, in my opinion, is the best combination for Saskatoon berries. The addition of white chocolate makes them perfect berry-type muffins.
What are Saskatoons
Saskatoons are purplish-black berries that grow on shrubs 1-5 meters tall, depending on the variety. They are known under many different names, such as serviceberry, shadbush, chuckley pear, or juneberry. They have a unique flavor that is almost a mix of almonds, cherries, and grapes.
How to Bake With Saskatoons
Saskatoons are one of the best berries to cook and bake with. They are firm and hold together well in pastries like The Best Scones, which are squished into form. Saskatoons and lemon go great together, like blueberries, and they make a great Lemon Saskatoon Loaf. You can substitute Saskatoon berries for almost any recipe that has blueberries, and they will bake up the same.
How to Make Saskatoon Muffins
This recipe is easy to prepare: Mix the dry and wet ingredients in separate bowls, then mix together. Add berries and chocolate, and bake! See the recipe card at the bottom for exact instructions.
- In a large bowl, whisk dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, mix the wet ingredients.
- Pour the liquid mix into the dry ingredients and mix.
- Stir in the Saskatoons and white chocolate chips gently.
- Pour into muffin cups, and bake.
Karlynn’s Tips & Tricks
- Fresh or frozen saskatoons work equally well in baking up these muffins.
- If Saskatoons are not in season, you can always substitute blueberries.
Where Do I Get Saskatoons
Depending on where you are, some berry UPicks are usually around if you don’t want to traipse through the woods to forage your own. Sometimes in specialty grocery stores, you can find them frozen depending on the time of year. When we go picking saskatoons, we pick extra and stock up my freezer for the year. We always make some tasty Saskatoon jam!
The Saskatoon berry has been a family favorite for generations, and my family thoroughly enjoyed these tasty white chocolate Saskatoon muffins!
Happy Baking!
Love,
Karlynn
White Chocolate Saskatoon Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ Cup All purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ½ Cup Granulated sugar
- ¼ Cup melted butter
- 1 Egg
- ¾ Cup Milk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1 cup Saskatoon Berries
- ½ cup of white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees.
- In a large bowl whisk together the dry ingredients.
- Combine the milk. beaten egg, vanilla and butter in a small bowl.
- Pour the liquid into the dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
- Stir in the Saskatoons and white chocolate chips gently.
- Divide the batter between 12 lined muffin tins.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes, until browned on top.
- Cool on wire rack.
Nutrition
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Sherri says
How would you change the recipe for mini muffins?
Clay Pendleton says
I ordered a small Saskatoon tree from a nursery years ago but it died. Our soil is very alkaline where I live; very hard to keep the soil in the proper acidic condition for proper growth. Here in the states I believe they are also called Juneberries or Serviceberries. This looks like a great recipe for wild
huckleberries. They are in our mountain ranges and are more easily available. Wild blueberries as well as wild Lingonberries would also be a good choice. I will try and see if I can get some frozen Saskatoon berries some time.
The Kitchen Magpie says
They are called serviceberries here, for sure! You can substitute almost any berry into these, for sure!
The Berry Barn says
These sound amazing!!!
The Kitchen Magpie says
White chocolate goes with everything!
I’d try other berries for sure.
Clay Pendleton says
Can’t get Saskatoon berries but would assume Huckleberries are very similar or even the same type of wild berries?
Richard Reid says
Saskatoon pancake syrup MMMMmmm
Judy Kelly says
Might have to try these IIrene Crayford (Mom)
Elaine Strate says
Here is one for you Donna Strate
Kendyl Hudson says
Bwahahaha
The Kitchen Magpie says
No green stuff in it, I promise!
Patty Willock Spalding says
You just missed the Saskatoon picking this year Cathy
Kendyl Hudson says
Saved!
Rebecka says
Does that say 1 and 3/4 cups for the flour?
thekitchenmagpie says
@Rebecka Sure does!
The Kitchen Magpie says
MY favorite!/
Homemade & Yummy says
My mom was from SASKATOON….LOVE those berries!!
The Kitchen Magpie says
They are seriously yummy!
The Kitchen Magpie says
I’ve picked in the Edmonton River Valley, out at the lake and at UPicks. This year will be a UPick because I’m so busy LOL!
The Kitchen Magpie says
Oh stop. Join and THEN invite all the other bloggers you know. The point is that I have a hard time finding everyone’s posts on FB, so if we ALL put them there, we can share the love on our other pages. I;d love to share more recipes from other bloggers but I honestly don’t have the time to keep trying to find them! Plus quite a few of my readers are on there too, looking for recipes!
The Kitchen Magpie says
I hope you love them!
Sarah Schultz says
I saw it but didn’t know if I should #shygal
The Kitchen Magpie says
Have you joined the Alberta Food page? Make sure to join and share your posts there too!
Sheri Wilhauk Schatschneider says
Yum! Where do you find your saskatoons?
Donna Andrus says
THANK-YOU! I still have one small bag of last year’s saskatoons in my freezer! YEAH for this recipe!
Lesley Staples says
Yum
James Lori Shipley says
Vanessa Leake
Sarah Schultz says
Yes, we live about 1 hour east of Calgary in the Strathmore area
The Kitchen Magpie says
Lucky girl!! Are you here in Alberta?
Sarah Schultz says
We discovered last year (thanks to our husky, of all creatures!) that we have Saskatoon bushes on our acreage!
The Kitchen Magpie says
Oh my favorite! I can’t WAIT to pick some Saskatoon and make pie!!!
Sarah Schultz says
Just made and blogging about Saskatoon pie!