ANY-FRUIT-WILL-DO MUFFINS WITH STREUSEL TOPPING
Originally from Bon Appetit and claimed as one of their best muffin recipes. Consider making for breakfast, too.
Provided by gailanng
Categories Breakfast
Time 50m
Yield 10-12 muffins
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- For the streusel topping:.
- Mix sugar, cinnamon and pinch of salt in a small bowl or work bowl of a food processor, add butter. If mixing by hand, use fingertips, a pastry blender, or 2 forks to blend the fat into dry ingredients until mixture looks like coarse irregular crumbs, with no visible lumps of butter. If mixing in a food processor, pulse about 10 times, then process 5 to 10 seconds, until there are no visible lumps of butter; stir in nuts. Set aside.
- For the muffins:.
- Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly grease the top surface of a 12-cup muffin pan; use liners, if necessary.
- Whisk 2 1/2 cups flour with next 4 ingredients in a medium bowl, set aside.
- Whisk together next 4 ingredients in a large bowl; whisk in buttermilk and vanilla. Gently whisk dry ingredients into wet ingredients to partially blend. Continue mixing batter with a rubber spatula, making sure that ingredients at the bottom are incorporated into batter fold in fruit. (Frozen fruit will help "firm" up batter. If batter seems too wet add a few more tablespoons of flour, up to 1/4 cup, to stiffen batter.).
- Using an ice-cream scoop, place a portion of batter into each muffin cup, filling to the brim. Sprinkle a portion of streusel topping over batter in each muffin cup.
- Bake 15 minutes, reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake 10 to 12 minutes or until muffins are golden brown and spring back when lightly pressed with fingertips. Let muffins cool in pan for 5 minutes then transfer them to a wire rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.
- NOTES:.
- To simplify muffin making, quadruple the streusel topping recipe and freeze.
- Orange, lemon, or lime zests can be used to flavor the muffins, if you like.
- Lemon works well with blueberry.
- Orange zest with cranberry or rhubarb.
- Lime zest with banana chunks.
- Almost any fruit works in this recipe. Good choices include:.
- apples, cut into small dice.
- bananas, cut into firm, small chunks.
- blueberries.
- cranberries, coarsely chopped.
- dried sour cherries or cranberries.
- raspberries.
- rhubarb, diced (fresh or frozen).
- strawberries, quartered or cut into small dice.
- To prevent delicate, highly colored fruits like raspberries, cranberries, and blueberries from getting mashed and discoloring the batter, use semi frozen fruit.
- It is not necessary to use paper baking liners if the muffin tin is commercial, glazed, or nonstick.
APPLE CINNAMON STREUSEL MUFFINS
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
Provided by Taste of Home
Time 35m
Yield 16 muffins.
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients. In another bowl, beat the eggs, sour cream and butter. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in apples. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. , For topping, combine sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle a rounded teaspoonful over each muffin. , Bake at 400° for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 206 calories, Fat 8g fat (5g saturated fat), Cholesterol 48mg cholesterol, Sodium 247mg sodium, Carbohydrate 31g carbohydrate (17g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 3g protein.
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