Cinnamon muffins with a sugary streusel topping taste wonderful as a light breakfast muffin or snack food recipe.
These are sour cream coffee cake muffins. I LOVE using sour cream in both muffins and cupcakes. It makes a beautiful light texture that is wonderful on the tongue.
This muffin recipe adds the streusel on top for an extra sweet touch of crumble to every bite. So good.
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Making Cinnamon Streusel Muffins:
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Make the Streusel:
Make the streusel first and set aside until needed just before baking the muffins.
Ingredients for the streusel topping. Cinnamon sugar, flour and butter. 
Put all the dry ingredients into a small bowl. Cut in the butter until it forms a crumbly topping.
Making the Cinnamon Sugar Muffins:
Make the streusel and prepare your 12 muffin tins. Preheat your oven to 350 Degrees F. Now make the muffin batter.
In medium bowl Whisk dry ingredients together. Set Aside. 
In a large bowl mix wet ingredients with a hand mixer. 
Add the dry mixture in three batches. Beat until smooth after each addition. 
The batter should be light and fluffy. 
Scoop the batter evenly into muffin cups. Sprinkle streusel over top. 
Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on rack.
These bakery style muffins with cinnamon streusel are wonderfully light. Psst. The secret to lightness is the sour cream.
Greek yogurt can replace the sour cream and you’ll still get a light muffin. you will notice a difference in flavor however.
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Your Printable Recipe Card:
Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffins with Streusel
Cinnamon muffins with a sugary streusel topping taste wonderful as a breakfast muffin. They are light and moist and keep well for several days.
Ingredients
Streusel topping:
- 1/2 Cup flour
- 1/2 Cup sugar
- 1 tsp. Ground cinnamon
- 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter
Muffin Ingredients:
- 2 1/4 Cup Flour
- 2 tsp. Baking powder
- 1/2 Tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. Salt
- 1/3 Cup softened butter
- 1/3 Cup vegetable oil
- 1 Cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 Cup sour cream
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
Streusel Topping:
- In a medium bowl mix together the flour, sugar and cinnamon.
- Cut in the butter until it forms into small crumbs.
- Set Aside until needed.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.- Line your muffin tins with paper liners or grease them.
Muffin Instructions:
- In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl mix together the softened butter, sugar and oil until smooth.
- Add two eggs one at a time. Mix between each egg until smooth.
- Put in the sour cream and vanilla. Mix all the wet ingredients until well combined.
- Add the dry ingredients one third at a time to wet ingredients. Mix until the batter is smooth after each addition.
- With a large scoop or spoon fill each muffin hole 1/2 full evenly.
- Sprinkle the streusel over the top of the batter.
- Set the pans in your preheated oven and bake 15 to 20 minutes until lightly browned.
- Cool on racks.
Notes
We had extra streusel leftover so if you want to load the muffins with topping it is there to spare.
Greek yogurt can substitute for the sour cream but you will notice a different flavor.
Nutrition Information
Yield
24Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 201Total Fat 11gSaturated Fat 5gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 5gCholesterol 35mgSodium 121mgCarbohydrates 24gFiber 0gSugar 13gProtein 2g
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