Day 13 - Coffee Cake Muffins

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Today is part 2 of Muffin baking! We decided to make coffee cake muffins. The recipe was super easy and super delicious! The batter consisted of flour, unsalted butter, salt, vanilla, baking powder, sugar and eggs. We also made a streusel mixture which consisted of brown sugar, unsalted butter and flour [we forgot to add the cinnamon… even though it was out on the counter! Too much talking and not enough paying attention!].

In the muffin tins you put a small scoop of the muffin batter, top it with the streusel mixture and repeat so you have two layers of batter and two layers of streusel.

The muffins puffed up and became huge in the oven [perhaps we put a bit too much batter in each cup?!] When the muffins came out we had to work to get them out of the tins and onto the cooling rack. We used a baking spray to be sure the muffins didn't stick to the pan but it didn't work very well. In the future we would suggest butter and flour for the pan- it always does the trick!

In any case, the muffins were buttery and delicious [even if they were slightly deformed since they didn't exactly come out of the muffin tins in one piece!]. The streusel was crunchy and gave the muffin a nice sweetness and the muffin itself was really moist.

Stay tuned for next week!!