Delicious sourdough cherry almond muffins made with fresh sweet cherries, almonds, and almond milk makes an excellent breakfast dish.

Sourdough Cherry Almond Muffins with coffee

Cherries are here as summer season begins; you can make this delicious sourdough cherry almond muffins with fresh sweet cherries as well as tart cherries.

Sourdough starter adds extra moistness to the recipe without making them tangy.

How many types of cherries?

Cherries are one of the stone fruits that is available during summer. There are many kinds of sweet cherries like Bing, Rainier, sweetheart that you can eat raw.

Then there are sour cherries like Morello, Montmorency, Balaton etc., which is too sour to eat but good at pickles, sauce and preserve.

Finally black cherries are used to make wine, cocktails, jam, and flavoring rum.

How to store cherries ?

You need to store them in refrigerator if you are planning to use within a week, if you want to keep it for long time then use it in freezer.

How to make sourdough cherry almond muffins

You need following ingredients to make these delicious muffins.

Sourdough Cherry Almond Muffins top view

Sourdough starter : I used 100% all-purpose flour starter ( you can use whole wheat flour or a mix of all-purpose and whole wheat flour starter) .

If you do not have sourdough starter in hand, try to make one yourself, check here How to make a sourdough starter.

All purpose flour : I have used unbleached all-purpose flour; you can use whole wheat flour, then muffin will be slightly dense. A mix of all-purpose flour and whole wheat flour will also work well.

Baking powder : This is leavener used it the recipe.

Sugar : I used granulated sugar you can use xylitol or coconut sugar in that place.

Eggs : Adds extra moistness and acts as binder

Almond milk : I used unsweetened almond milk, you can use your favorite milk

Salt : Salts brings out flavor and sweetness in the muffin

Almonds : I used slivered almonds you can use chopped almonds too

Cherries : I used pitted sweet cherries. You can use frozen cherries too, however make sure not to thaw them before adding it into the dough.

Vanilla extract: I have used vanilla extract you can use almond extract also.

Variation for these muffins?

These are few variations you can make using this recipe just replace almonds with

Sourdough Cherry Almond Muffins before baking

1) You can either add chocolate chips or chocolate chunks to make chocolate cherry muffins.

2) Citrus goes well with cherries; you can make lemon cherry muffins and orange cherry muffins.

3) If you want to make it adult muffin add some Kirsch, bourbon to make Bourbon cherry muffins

Do you like more cherry recipes?

Chocolate cherry Muffins

Cherry Cake

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