Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffins

What’s better than starting your day with a hot cup of coffee and a plate of warm Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffins with a Cinnamon Streusel Topping? Nothing!

I’m a coffee cake lover from way back. I mean what’s not to love about having cake for breakfast? Right?! 

A couple of weekends ago I had some friends over for brunch and I served a basket of these warm muffins. The gals loved them! I’m so happy I made a double batch because I was able to send them each home with a couple of muffins to-go.  

Go ahead – start your day with my Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffins – you won’t be sorry!

The Streusel Topping

One of the best things about any coffee cake is the streusel topping. Streusel is nothing more than a crumbly sweet topping that goes on top of pastries. The topping provides a totally different texture than the cakey inside of a cake or muffin. 

Making a streusel topping is easy. Here are the ingredients for my favorite streusel:

• All-purpose flour
• Oats
• Pecans
• Sugar
• Cinnamon 
• Butter

My secret muffin ingredients

This recipe has two secret ingredients in the batter. They each have an important purpose in the recipe. 

1. Applesauce – I often use applesauce in my baking. I use it as a substitute for using oil. You can exchange it 1/2-to-1/2  in a cake, quick sweet bread or muffin recipe or you can exchange it 1-to-1 which is what I did for this recipe. I simply added 1/2 cup of unsweetened applesauce instead of 1/2 cup of oil. If you haven’t tried using applesauce, you really should. No one will know the difference and you’ll be cutting out a whole lot of fat. 
2. Sour Cream – I used 1 cup of sour cream in this recipe. Sour cream gives the batter a slight tanginess similar to buttermilk. It also provides for a moister finished baked good. 

Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffins

What's better than starting your day with a hot cup of coffee and a plate of warm Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffins with a Cinnamon Streusel Topping? 

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Course: Breakfast, Brunch, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cinnamon coffee muffins, coffee cake muffins, coffee muffins

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes

Servings: 12 -18 muffins

Author: Laura Franco

Ingredients 

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Dry Ingredients for muffins

• 2-1/4 cups of all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 chopped pecans

Wet ingredients for muffins

• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce substitution: 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1/3 cup softened butter
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 TBS vanilla extract

Streusel ingredients

• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup fast cooking oats
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans
• 1 TBS cinnamon
• 6 TBS butter - very cold and cut into small pieces

Glaze ingredients

• 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
• 2 TBS milk

Instructions

For the Muffins

• Preheat oven to 350°
• Mix together all of the dry ingredients except the pecans.
• In a separte bowl, mx together the dry ingredients.
• Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
• Fold in the pecans.
• Spoon muffin the mixture into a muffin tin that has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray or use muffin/cupcake papers.
• Mix all of the ingredients for the streusel in a bowl.
• Using a fork or your hands (which I prefer) incorporate all the ingredients until you have a mosit but crumbly texture.
• Top the muffins mixture with equal amounts of the streusel.
• Bake for 35-40 minutes or until an inserted tooth pick comes out clean.
• Cool completely before glazing.

Glaze

• Mix together the confectioners sugar and milk until it's smooth.
• Drizzle the glaze on top of the baked and cooled muffins.