Jordan Marsh Legendary Blueberry Muffins

Jordan Marsh Legendary Blueberry Muffins are the same blueberry muffins that generations of families enjoyed for decades at the Jordan Marsh department stores in Boston and New England.

What Are Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins?

For those that grew up in Boston and New England, I’m going to make you very happy today. For you, this recipe will need no introduction because you enjoyed these Jordan Marsh Legendary Blueberry Muffins for decades at the Jordan Marsh department store in Boston or one of the other locations in New England. Unfortunately, the Jordan Marsh stores are no more and the blueberry muffin baker retired.

However, for those who did not live in New England, you are in for a real treat because these are not ordinary blueberry muffins!

Table of Contents

• What Are Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins?
• What Makes These Blueberry Muffins So Good?
• What Do I Need To Make Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins
• How To Make Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins
• Recipe Tips
• What to Serve With Blueberry Muffins?
• More Recipes You May Like
• Recipe
• Reviews

What Makes These Blueberry Muffins So Good?

These Jordan March Legendary Blueberry Muffins are sweeter, richer, and moister than most blueberry muffins because they use more eggs, butter, and sugar than most recipes.

In addition, one of the other differences is that, in addition to adding blueberries, they also add mashed blueberries to the batter to make it moister and give it even more blueberry flavor.

Honestly, these muffins, along with my Blueberry Muffin Cookies, are probably one of my favorite Blueberry recipes, and, like my Vanilla Baked Donuts, are also one of my favorite sweet Breakfast Recipes.

Living in Texas, I was not fortunate enough to have tried the original blueberry muffins. However, after I watched this TV interview with John Pupek, the original baker of the Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins, I knew I had to make these luscious blueberry muffins.

Once I tasted these blueberry muffins, I could see why they had such a following for decades. I have made this recipe many times, and tweaked slightly to use what I, and most home cooks, have on hand.

What Do I Need To Make Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins

The quality of the muffins are dependent on the quality of the ingredients used to make them. Below are my recommendations.

• Blueberries. Fresh blueberries work best in these blueberry muffins. However, you could use frozen blueberries as well. Set aside 1/2 cup to mash and stir to the batter. For the rest, just toss them in a little flour so they don’t stick to the bottom of the muffin tin.
• Butter. Use real butter. This is the one ingredient where I strongly recommend not substituting. Use real butter, not margarine . The butter gives it that wonderful flavor and texture.  Use either salted or unsalted butter, just as long as it is real butter. Now, the recipe only calls for butter. However, if you listen very carefully, he mentions creaming the butter and shortening. However, again, he did not mention ratios. So if you want to try using half butter and half shortening, go ahead. 
• Eggs.  John Pupek used fortified eggs in the original recipe.
• Sugar. You’ll need granulated sugar not only for the batter itself but also to sprinkle on top of the blueberry muffins.
• Vanilla. Be sure to use pure vanilla and not imitation vanilla. You will be happy you did. 
• Milk. I’d recommend whole milk instead of a low fat milk for this recipe.
• Flour.  In the video the baker, John Pupek, used a combination of pastry flour and bread flour. Unfortunately, he did not mention the ratios of the pastry flour and bread flour. However, if you want to try it, start out with a 50/50 mix and see how it turns out. However, since I and most readers may not have those types of flour on hand, I use all-purpose flour, and have written the recipe to use all-purpose flour. 
• Baking Powder. Be sure that the baking powder is fresh and has not gone beyond the expiration date on the box. The baking powder needs to be fresh in order to be activated and help the muffins to rise when they are baked.
• Salt. 

Scroll down to the bottom of this article to the printable recipe card to see all the specific amounts of each ingredient.

How To Make Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease muffin tins well with butter; grease the top surface of the pans as well.
• Using a stand mixer on low speed beat the butter together with the sugar until fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time and mix until blended.
• In a separate bowl sift together the dry ingredients;
• Add the dry ingredients to the eggs and butter mixture, alternating with milk.
• Mash 1/2 cup of blueberries and stir into the mixture.
• Add the rest of the berries whole and stir. Pile the batter high in each muffin cup, and sprinkle the sugar over tops of the muffins.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes.

Recipe Tips

In the interview, John Pupek gave some great tips to ensure your recipe turns out as fabulous as the Jordan Marsh Legendary Blueberry Muffins:

• Use a blend of bread and pastry flour. He did not specify the ratio between the two. However, I used all-purpose flour and they tasted fabulous.
• How long you cream the butter and sugar depends on many things, including weather conditions, such as humidity. Use the recipe instructions as a guide, but you may have to adjust how long you cream it depending on your situation.
• Add the eggs gradually, one at a time, mixing the batter in between the addition of each one.
• Mash 1/2 cup blueberries and stir them into the batter to make them extra moist.
• Sprinkle the whole blueberries with flour before adding them to the batter so the blueberries are distributed throughout the muffins and don’t fall to the bottom of the muffin.
• Be generous with sprinkling sugar on top of each muffin before baking.

I recommend using an ice cream scoop to scoop the batter into the muffin tin to help get rounded tops.

What to Serve With Blueberry Muffins?

In my opinion, these blueberry muffins need nothing additional at all. I’d make a meal out of them. However, here are some other serving suggestions.

• Serve the blueberry muffins for breakfast, brunch, or a snack with butter.
• Have a brunch menu of blueberry muffins, butter, crustless quiche, or veggie quiche muffins, and a fresh fruit salad. 

These were some of the best blueberry muffins I have ever tried. Mr. Flavor Mosaic managed to say “Awesome” and gave a big thumbs up in between bites.

Now it is your turn to make these Jordan Marsh Legendary Blueberry Muffins. No worries! These were very easy to make.

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• Lemon Blueberry Brownies
• Blueberry Crumb Bars
• Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake
• Blueberry Strawberry French Toast Casserole

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Recipe originally published May 3, 2016, and republished with new photos and additional text on June 19, 2020.

If you like this recipe, be sure to check out some of Flavor Mosaic’s other Blueberry recipes!