Baking with Ellie, Breads, Muffins

Coffee Cake Muffins

Sarah is a bit obsessed with muffins. We say that as nicely as we can, but she will do just about anything for a good muffin and she loves coffee cake. These coffee cake muffins are nice and moist and pair perfectly with some iced coffee!

Difficulty: Beginner friendly
Serves: 8-12 muffins
Time: 25-30 minutes

Ingredients

Muffins

  • 82 g milk (or oat milk if you’re lactose intolerant like us)
  • 35 g Greek yoghurt (unflavored and unsweetened is best but we used vanilla and it was still yummy!)
  • 120 g all purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/8 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 34 g canola oil
  • 43 g honey
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla (omit if using vanilla Greek yoghurt)

Streusel

  • 23 g all purpose flour
  • 33 g brown sugar (we like dark brown sugar but any will work)
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 36 g butter

Equipment

Ideal Equipment

  • Stand mixer
  • Food processor
  • Muffin tin (either jumbo or standard size)
  • Muffin tin liners
  • Hand whisk
  • 2 medium mixing bowls
  • Cooling rack
  • Silicone spatula

Essential Equipment

  • Muffin tin (either jumbo or standard size)
  • Muffin tin liners
  • Hand whisk
  • Dough cutter or fork
  • 2 medium mixing bowls
  • 1 large mixing bowl
  • Cooling rack
  • Spatula or spoon

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 F and line muffin tin
  2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together yoghurt and milk
  3. In a medium size mixing bowl, combine streusel ingredients together using either a dough cutter, fork or in a food processor until crumbly and put in refrigerator until needed
  4. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whisk together the muffin dry ingredients
  5. Add egg, oil, honey and vanilla (if using) into milk mix
  6. Slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry and whisk to combine
  7. Fill muffin liners 1/2 way (if standard or 2/3 way if jumbo) and top with streusel
  8. Bake for 16-18 minutes until a toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean, and cool 5 minutes in pan and then fully on a cooling rack

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