Apple Strusel Coffee Cake Muffins. What Are Coffee Cake Muffins It's like a coffee cake but in a muffin. They're just perfect with apples and walnuts in every single bite, not to mention that delicious streusel topping with brown sugar, walnuts and cinnamon. Apple Streusel Muffins These apple streusel muffins remind us of coffee cake, and my husband and kids love them as a quick breakfast or snack on the run.
You can cook Apple Strusel Coffee Cake Muffins using 23 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Apple Strusel Coffee Cake Muffins
- Prepare of MUFFINS.
- It’s 1 of large red or green eating apple I used Cortland, peeled and cored and cut into small cubes.
- Prepare 2 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 1 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.
- It’s 1/4 tsp of salt.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- You need 1/4 tsp of ground ginger.
- You need 1/4 tsp of ground nutmeg.
- You need 6 tbsp of unsalted butter, at room temperature.
- It’s 2 of large eggs.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of Vanilla extract.
- You need 1 1/3 cup of sour cream.
- It’s of STRUEUSEL TOPPING.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of Light brown sugar, packed.
- It’s 1 cup of all-purpose flour.
- You need 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- It’s 8 tbsp of cold salted butter, cubed.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of toffee bits, such as health bits.
- You need 2/3 cup of roasted chopped nuts, almonds, cashews,walnuts and/or honey roasted peanuts. if you don't like nuts, leave them out.
- It’s of ICING/GLAZE.
- Prepare 1 of recipe my The Best Icing / Glaze recipe, recipe attached in direction step #10.
They are loaded with apples, a hint of cinnamon, and LOTS of streusel topping. For my non-muffin lover I may have called them individual coffee cakes. Apple Cinnamon: Turn these into Apple Streusel Muffins by replacing half of the butter with applesauce and adding finely diced apples (or dried apple bits) to your batter.; Cheese Streusel: Give these streusel cinnamon muffins a decadent twist by mixing spoonfuls of softened cream cheese into your batter before baking.; Pumpkin Spice: You can make these holiday themed by adding Pumpkin Pie. These apple coffee cake muffins are bursting with fresh apples, swirled with cinnamon sugar, and topped with a buttery brown sugar crumb topping.
Apple Strusel Coffee Cake Muffins step by step
Preheat oven n to 350. Line 24 muffin tins with paper liners.
Whisk together in a bowl, flour baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, hutmeg and salt, set aside.
In a large bowl beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy Add eggs one at a time beating each egg in, then add vanilla.
With mixer at low speed alternate flour mixture with sour cream starting and ending with flour, fold in apples, batter will be thick.
Spoon evenly into muffin tins.
MAKE STRUSEL TOPPING.
Combine flour, light brown sugar and cinnamon in food processor, mix, add cold butter and pulse until it looks like sand, stir in nuts and toffee chips. This can be done in a bowl with a fork as well.
Divide strusel topping evenly among muffins. Bake 18 to 24 minutes until a toothpick just comes out just clean, cool in pans on rack 10 minutes then remove from pans and cool before glazing.
Glaze muffins with Icing/Glaze attached below
https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/356666-the-best-vanilla-icingglaze.
All the flavors of coffee cake, in muffin form! Lightly pat the top layer of streusel so it sticks to the cake batter. In this apple muffin recipe, the streusel topping is nicely seasoned with cinnamon and sugar. Pieces of tender fruit appear in every bite of these pretty apple muffins. —Michele Olsen, Wessington Springs, South Dakota The only way to improve upon coffee cake is when it's in a cute, individual portion like these cinnamon streusel muffins. These muffins are soft and tender with a great vanilla flavor.
