Kodiak Blueberry Muffins Recipe

Kodiak blueberry muffins are made from Kodiak's Power Cakes pancake mix in place of flour: two cups of mix, a cup of milk, one egg, a quarter cup each of honey and melted butter, and a cup of blueberries. Stir the wet ingredients, fold in the mix and the berries, and bake at 350°F for 18 to 22 minutes. It makes twelve.

Kodiak's own muffin recipes, and this one

Kodiak publishes two muffin recipes of its own, and they answer two different questions.

• From its Blueberry Muffin Mix: the Blueberry Yogurt Muffins use one box of that mix with 2 eggs, 1 cup of whole milk and 1/3 cup of Greek yogurt, baked at 375°F for 15 to 18 minutes. Twelve muffins, 153 calories and 9 grams of protein each by Kodiak's figures.
• From the pancake mix: the Summer Berry Pancake Muffins use 1 cup of Buttermilk Power Cakes mix, 1 egg, 3/4 cup of milk and 1/2 cup of berries. They are mini muffins: two dozen, baked for 8 to 10 minutes.

The recipe on this page is for the second case at full size: standard muffins from the pancake mix rather than the muffin mix. It is not a Kodiak recipe, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Kodiak.

Recipe

Kodiak Blueberry Muffins

Blueberry muffins made from Kodiak Buttermilk Power Cakes pancake mix with milk, an egg, honey, melted butter and blueberries. Twelve muffins.

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Prep

10 min

Cook

20 min

Total

30 min

Serves

12

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 2 cups Kodiak Buttermilk Power Cakes mix
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 350°F and line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners, or grease it.
2. Whisk the milk, egg, honey, melted butter and vanilla together in a large bowl.
3. Add the Kodiak mix and the cinnamon and stir until just combined. A few small lumps are fine; stirring them out makes the muffins tough.
4. Fold in the blueberries. Frozen berries go in straight from the freezer.
5. Divide the batter among the 12 cups, filling each about two-thirds full.
6. Bake for 18 to 22 minutes, until the tops spring back and a toothpick pushed into the centre comes out clean. Frozen berries add 2 to 3 minutes.
7. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then move the muffins to a rack.

Nutrition

Calories:

165

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

Why the batter is thicker than Kodiak's

Kodiak's mini-muffin recipe uses three-quarters of a cup of milk for every cup of mix. That is a thin batter, and it suits a mini muffin that bakes in ten minutes. A standard muffin has to hold its shape for twice as long, so this recipe uses half a cup of milk per cup of mix and gets the rest of its moisture from honey and butter.

Kodiak's ingredient list for the mix includes leavening and sea salt, so neither is added here. Stir only until the dry mix disappears.

Fresh or frozen blueberries

Both work. Frozen berries should not be thawed: thawed berries bleed into the batter and turn it grey-blue.

Wild blueberries are smaller, so more of them end up in each muffin.

How much protein is in a Kodiak blueberry muffin

Kodiak's product page gives the Buttermilk Power Cakes mix 15 grams of protein and 220 calories per serving, with about nine servings in a 20-ounce box. This recipe uses two cups, a bit over a third of a box, for twelve muffins. That puts each muffin at roughly 4 to 5 grams of protein from the mix, plus a little over 1 gram from the milk and the egg.

Kodiak lists its own muffins from the Blueberry Muffin Mix at 9 grams each. For more protein here, swap half the milk for plain Greek yogurt; Kodiak's recipe uses yogurt as well.

Swaps that keep the recipe working

• Maple syrup for honey, in the same amount.
• Neutral oil or melted coconut oil for butter, in the same amount.
• Any milk, dairy or not. The protein figure above assumes dairy milk.
• Lemon: the zest of one lemon, stirred into the wet ingredients.

The Kodiak French toast sticks are the other Kodiak breakfast on this site.

Keeping them

Two days in a covered container at room temperature, five in the refrigerator, three months in the freezer. A frozen muffin thaws in about 30 seconds in the microwave. For more blueberries at breakfast, there are the blueberry cottage cheese bread and the blueberry cottage cheese breakfast bake.