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Delicious strawberry yogurt muffins make a great breakfast or afternoon snack. Yogurt is the secret to making these muffins soft and moist.

This recipe uses less sugar and Greek yogurt for a healthier muffin with incredible strawberry flavor in each bite.

The Best Greek Yogurt Muffins

Greek yogurt helps cut down on fat and gives these muffins a super moist texture with light crumbs. It also adds more calcium and 8 grams of protein to each muffin. It’s a great way to give this treat a protein boost, as I do in my banana cottage cheese muffins.

The acids and creaminess of Greek yogurt create a muffin texture and flavor that’s superior to regular muffins. It’s almost cake-like but with fine, soft crumbs and a tangy-sweet flavor. What’s not to love about that?

Ingredients

I use all-purpose flour, but you can use gluten-free flour or oat flour. You’ll also need old-fashioned oats for texture, sugar to make them slightly sweet, baking powder, baking soda, salt, plain Greek yogurt (flavored and/or regular yogurt also works), eggs, butter, vanilla extract, and fresh strawberries.

Left: bowl with chopped strawberries, a small dish with butter and a mixing bowl with flour, oats, sugar, and a wooden spoon, with yogurt and an egg nearby.
Right: muffin batter in a bowl with chopped strawberries.

How to Make Strawberry Greek Yogurt Muffins

Follow the recipe directions below, and you can guarantee bakery-grade muffins with beautiful golden-brown tops. Let’s make it happen!

Preheat the oven to 375F and line a muffin pan with 12 paper liners.
Combine the wet ingredients in a large bowl and whisk until smooth.
Make the batter by adding flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and oats to the wet mixture. Fold until just combined, then add the strawberries.
Bake 22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with a few moist crumbs.

a few muffins on a cooling rack on the side

Yogurt Muffin Success Tips

Take advantage of these helpful tips so your muffins will turn out perfect every time!

Don’t overmix
The perfect muffin batter is one that’s just combined and thick enough that you need a spoon or ice cream scoop to scoop the batter into the muffin pan.

Start with room temperature ingredients
Room temperature ingredients make a smooth, cohesive batter and give baked goods an even texture.

Dice the fruit evenly
Make sure the strawberries are chopped into even-sized pieces for even cooking. No fresh fruit? Make these strawberry muffins with frozen strawberries.

Strawberry Yogurt Oat Muffins

Servings: 12

Prep Time: 8

Cook Time: 22

Total Time: 37

Delicious strawberry yogurt muffins make a great breakfast or afternoon snack. Yogurt is the secret to making these muffins soft and moist.

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Watch how it’s made:

Ingredients

2 cups plain Greek yogurt*
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour*
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
¾ cup old fashioned oats
1 cup diced fresh strawberries

Instructions

Prep the oven:

Preheat oven to 375F and line a muffin pan with 12 liners.

Make the batter:

In a large mixing bowl, whisk the yogurt with egg, butter, and vanilla extract until smooth.
Add the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and oats. Stir until the batter is just combined. Gently fold in the strawberries.

Bake:

Fill muffin cups ¾th full and bake for 22 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with a few moist crumbs.
Remove the muffins from the oven and allow them to cool down before serving.

Notes

You can also use plain, vanilla, or strawberry flavored yogurt- the flavored yogurts will give the muffins a sweeter flavor without a ton of added sugar. While regular yogurt won't provide as much nutritional benefit as Greek yogurt would, it will still provide that fluffy moist texture, so you can use it if that's what you have on hand.
You can also use 1:1 Gluten-Free flour or oat flour. The oat flour will make the muffin texture slightly heartier, but that’s not a bad thing.