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Coffee Cake Muffins (+ More Coffee Cake Recipes)

April 7, 2016 by Amber | Dessert Now Dinner Later 21 Comments

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These coffee cake muffins have a moist, buttery yellow cake, and are topped with lots of crunchy, sweet cinnamon streusel. 

  These coffee cake muffins have a moist, buttery yellow cake, and are topped with lots of crunchy, sweet cinnamon streusel.

Today is National Coffee Cake Day, and although I don’t drink coffee, I just love a cake that is piled high with streusel, so I made coffee cake muffins to celebrate! I will pretty much eat anything with streusel. The buttery, crispy, crunchy-sweet goodness is oh so addicting.  

 

These coffee cake muffins have a moist, buttery yellow cake, and are topped with lots of crunchy, sweet cinnamon streusel.

One of my favorite streusels is the one in this Cinnamon Pumpkin Crumble. It has pecans in it, which I thought I would hate, because I don’t really love pecans, but it adds a totally new crunchy texture that is so worth trying.  

 

The streusel on top of these coffee cake muffins is super traditional. Butter, flour, cinnamon, sugar, and a little salt. Instead of cutting in the butter, I melted it, so I got these huge round clumps of buttery-sweet streusel pieces.

 

These coffee cake muffins have a moist, buttery yellow cake, and are topped with lots of crunchy, sweet cinnamon streusel.

The batter rises quite a bit, you can see that some of the muffins have cake poking through the streusel, and with the streusel on top, that’s a lot of stuff to put into one muffin cup. So don’t go overfilling those muffin cups, or it could be a potential disaster. I actually used those self-standing, hard muffin cups that you don’t need a muffin pan for, and they worked great!  

 

These coffee cake muffins have a moist, buttery yellow cake, and are topped with lots of crunchy, sweet cinnamon streusel.

How about a little confession before I share the recipe? Okay! I tend to have a problem with desserts in my house. It’s SO hard to just eat one, even when they are individually portioned, like cupcakes or muffins. Just know that these muffins were totally worth eating three in one sitting. (Yes, I totally did that.) Enjoy my friends!  

 

These coffee cake muffins have a moist, buttery yellow cake, and are topped with lots of crunchy, sweet cinnamon streusel.
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Coffee Cake Muffins

Yield 13 to 14 muffins

Ingredients

Muffins:

  • 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 6 Tbsp butter, cut into Tablespoon pieces
  • 1 whole egg + 1 egg yolk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/3 cup buttermilk (or 1/3 cup milk + 1 tsp of lemon juice or white distilled vinegar)
  • 1/4 cup oil (canola/vegetable)

Streusel:

  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1 Tbsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line muffin pan(s) with paper cups. Set aside.

  2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Using the paddle attachment, cut in the butter, one Tablespoon at a time, until the mixture resembles fine crumbs.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg, egg yolk, vanilla, buttermilk, and oil. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until incorporated.

  4. Fill muffin cups ½ full. Do not overfill! About 13 to 14 muffins depending on the size of the cups. Set aside.

  5. Prepare streusel by combining the flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt, and melted butter in a bowl until everything is wet and crumbly. Divide the streusel between all the muffin cups. It will seem like a lot, but use it all.
  6. Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick comes out of the center clean. Allow to cool completely. Store any leftovers in an airtight container up to 3 days.

Recipe Notes

Recipe lightly altered from Table For Two Blog and Sugar Apron

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Filed Under: Breakfast and Muffins, Cakes, Cupcakes and Frosting Tagged With: cinnamon, Recipe Round Up, streusel

Comments

  1. Jessica @ A Kitchen Addiction says

    April 7, 2016 at 7:44 AM

    Love the thick layer of streusel!

    Reply
    • Amber says

      April 8, 2016 at 9:50 AM

      Amen! Love me some streusel! Thanks Jessica!

      Reply
  2. aimee @ like mother like daughter says

    April 7, 2016 at 8:10 AM

    Oh my goodness, these muffins!! I just love how thick the streusel is on top and I love that they’re little bite sized portable coffee cakes!

    Reply
    • Amber says

      April 8, 2016 at 9:50 AM

      Thanks Aimee! The are perfect for on-the-go!

      Reply
  3. Kelly says

    April 7, 2016 at 10:15 AM

    I feel the same way, I have such a weakness when it comes to streusel topping and I love how high you piled it on these muffins! They look amazing!

    Reply
    • Amber says

      April 8, 2016 at 9:49 AM

      I’m glad I’m not the only one. 😉 Thanks Kelly!

      Reply
  4. Cathy | Lemon Tree Dwelling says

    April 14, 2016 at 9:00 PM

    I’m completely in love with these muffins, Amber! That streusel topping is killing me!!!

    Reply
    • Amber says

      April 15, 2016 at 10:43 AM

      Thanks Cathy! Streusel is my weakness, so there has to be lots of it! Haha. 😉

      Reply
  5. Bisuzs Coffee says

    April 19, 2016 at 11:55 PM

    Definitely would try out that coffee cake muffins!! It looks so tasty!

    Reply
  6. Karly says

    June 20, 2016 at 8:19 AM

    Yep, these are perfect. A one handed grab and go breakfast that satisfies my morning sweet tooth. What else can a lady ask for!?

    Reply
    • Amber says

      June 20, 2016 at 2:28 PM

      Thanks Karly! They really are great for on-the-go!

      Reply
  7. Amber says

    August 11, 2016 at 9:11 PM

    Hi Patricia. I’m sorry to hear about your bad experience. I’m guessing you won’t make these again, but the batter is meant to be thick. I’m sorry you felt like you had to add more liquid to them.

    Reply
  8. Julie Flaherty says

    March 22, 2017 at 7:43 PM

    Thanks for sharing. Where did you get the muffin liners? They look a bit taller than your average muffin liner?
    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Amber says

      March 24, 2017 at 7:07 AM

      They are called “cupcake wrappers”. I got these from Pick Your Plum (a daily deal site), but you can find similar ones on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2nvjGz6 (affiliate link)

      Reply
  9. Patricia says

    May 27, 2017 at 1:47 PM

    Amber, which measurement of sugar goes in the batter and which in the streusel? Could be important!

    Reply
    • Amber says

      May 27, 2017 at 4:06 PM

      Hi Patricia. I recently got a new recipe plugin and it messed up the format of a lot of my recipes. I usually group them. I’ve manually fixed the ingredients into sections that say “Muffins” and “Streusel”. Let me know if you have any more questions.

      Reply
  10. Patricia says

    May 27, 2017 at 3:07 PM

    Same question about the flour measurements!

    Reply
  11. Christina says

    October 15, 2017 at 9:52 PM

    Followed the recipe but my muffins taste a little off. Does it matter what type of salt you use in the streusel? I think that might be my problem.

    Reply
    • Amber says

      October 16, 2017 at 2:50 PM

      I use either regular table salt (iodized) or sea salt. I hope you figure it out!

      Reply
  12. Donnie says

    January 5, 2019 at 12:05 PM

    Hey Amber, Love these! Found on Pintrest, made minis this time but will do full size next time with parchment cups. Need to add a bit more butter to my streusel I think as it was just a bit on the dry side. Overall a great recipe and so simple, thanks for sharing!!

    Reply
    • Amber | Dessert Now Dinner Later says

      January 13, 2019 at 8:33 AM

      Great! Thanks for sharing your experience!

      Reply

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