Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffins

Servings: 8 muffins

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 15

Total Time: 25

These coffee cake muffins have a soft, airy crumb with a cinnamon swirl and the perfect buttery crumble topping in every bite. You can be extra and drizzle the glaze.

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Ingredients

Muffins

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
⅛ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¾ cup milk
⅓ cup melted butter
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

Crumb Topping

⅓ cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons brown sugar, packed
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons butter, melted

Cinnamon Swirl

2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon

Vanilla Glaze

¼ cup powdered sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons cream, if using milk, use 1 tablespoon

Instructions

Prep:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees and line muffin tin with paper liners.
Make the crumb topping by combining the flour, sugars, and cinnamon in a bowl. Add the melted butter and mix with a fork until the mixture is crumbly.
For the cinnamon swirl, combine the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
In a small bowl, combine the glaze ingredients and set aside. The glaze is optional.

Make the batter:

In a large bowl, whisk the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs. Add the milk, butter, and vanilla and mix until combined. Pour the wet mixture into the dry bowl and mix until you have a thick but smooth batter.
Fill each muffin tin with 2 tablespoons of batter. Add a teaspoon of the cinnamon-sugar mixture on top of the batter and with the back of the spoon, swirl the cinnamon into the batter. Top with muffin batter, ¾ of the way to the top.
Top each muffin with 1 ½ tablespoons of crumb topping. Then, divide any topping left among the muffins.

Bake:

Bake them in the preheated oven for 15-17 minutes until the crumbly tops are golden and when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Remove from oven and allow muffins to cool down to room temperature in the pan prior to transferring them to a wire rack to glaze. Once cooled, drizzle some of the (optional) glaze over the muffins.

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