Coffee Cake Muffins With Pecan Streusel Food

COFFEE-CAKE MUFFINS WITH PECAN STREUSEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Stir together the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl; set aside. Butter 10 cups of a standard nonstick muffin tin; set aside.
• Make streusel: Spread out pecans on a baking sheet. Toast in oven, shaking occasionally, until crisp and fragrant, 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool completely.
• Raise oven temperature to 375°. Put brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, and flour in a medium bowl. Blend in butter with your fingertips until well combined. Crumble pecans into small pieces; work into streusel with fingertips until just combined. Cover, and refrigerate.
• Combine dry ingredients: Sift flour, baking powder, salt, granulated sugar, and spices into a large bowl; set aside.
• Combine wet ingredients: Whisk together eggs, vanilla, and milk in a separate large bowl. Whisk in melted butter.
• Pour wet ingredients over dry ingredients; fold with a rubber spatula until combined. Spoon batter into buttered cups, filling each less than one-third full. Gently press batter into an even layer.
• Divide reserved streusel among cups, then top with remaining batter. Sprinkle with reserved cinnamon sugar. Fill any empty cups in the tin halfway with water. Bake muffins until puffed and golden brown, about 18 minutes.
• Let cool slightly in tin, 5 to 10 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack; let cool a few minutes more before serving warm.

PECAN COFFEE CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. For streusel, in a small bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, flour and cinnamon until crumbly. Stir in pecans; set aside., In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in cream and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture just until moistened., Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups one-fourth full. Drop 1 tablespoon streusel into the center of each muffin cup; cover with batter. Sprinkle tops with remaining streusel., Bake until a toothpick inserted in muffin comes out clean, 20-22 minutes. Cool in pan 5 minutes. Remove from pans to wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Serve warm.

PECAN COFFEE CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• _For the Streusel Topping:In large mixing bowl, whisk together granulated sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt and flour. Add cold butter and cut it into flour with pastry blender or two forks. Blend until mixture is grainy with small pea-sized pieces of butter speckled throughout. Add ice cold water 1 tablespoon at a time and blend it into the flour mixture with your fingers until a shaggy streusel topping is formed. Stir in chopped pecans. Cover and refrigerate streusel while muffin batter is prepared._For the Coffee Cake Muffins:Preheat oven to 375°F. Line muffin tin with tall tulip-style paper cupcake liners. In mixing bowl, whisk together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.In large measuring cup, whisk together eggs, milk and vanilla extract. Pour into dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Add melted butter and stir again until slightly lumpy batter is achieved. Fill each paper liner with a level 1/4 cup of muffin batter. Top batter with generous 1/4 cup of streusel topping. If using standard cupcake liners, top with 2 tablespoons.Bake muffins for 18-23 minutes or until toothpick inserted into centers comes out clean. Serve muffins warm with extra butter. Store leftovers in air-tight container.

PECAN COFFEE CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. In a large bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt. Make a well in the centre.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter, sugar and egg and beat on medium speed until blended. Add in the milk and vanilla and beat on medium until blended together.
• Pour wet mixture into the well of the dry mixture. Add in pecans. Stir until just moistened.
• To make spice mix, mix ingredients together in a bowl.
• Grease a muffin pan and add about a tsp of the batter to each muffin cup. Sprinkle a little of the spice mix on top. Then spoon the rest of the batter evenly over top of the muffins and top with the remainder of the spice mix.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the centre of a muffin.

COFFEE CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Prepare streusel topping:
• In a medium bowl, stir together brown sugar, flour, and salt.
• With a pastry blender or two knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles large coarse crumbs; refrigerate until ready to use.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Prepare muffins:
• Butter and flour a jumbo 12-cup muffin tin (or two 6-cup muffin tins).
• In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside.
• Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat together butter, sour cream, granulated sugar, and vanilla until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, until well combined.
• With mixer on low, beat flour mixture into butter mixture.
• Divide half the batter among prepared muffin cups.
• Top with half the streusel mixture, then remaining batter, and top with streusel.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of a muffin comes out clean.
• Cool in pan 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Dust with confectioners' sugar, if desired.

PECAN SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter an 8-inch by 10-inch baking dish.
• Mix pecans, 1/3 cup white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, and melted butter thoroughly in a mixing bowl until all components are coated with butter, 3 to 4 minutes.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
• In another bowl, mix together butter and 1 cup sugar with a spatula until well blended. Add 1 egg and whisk until mixture is smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Whisk in second egg until thoroughly incorporated. Add vanilla and sour cream; whisk together. Add flour mixture to wet ingredients; whisk until flour disappears (do not over mix).
• Spread one half of the batter evenly into the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Scatter one half of the crumb mixture evenly over the top of the batter. Top with the rest of the batter and spread carefully to evenly distribute, trying not to disturb the crumbs. Top with the rest of the crumb mixture. Very gently press crumbs into batter. Bake in preheated oven until a bamboo skewer comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Let cool slightly before serving.

PUMPKIN COFFEE CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR-PECAN STREUSEL

Steps:

• To toast pecans, preheat the oven to 325°F. Spread the nuts out on a rimmed baking sheet and bake, stirring often, until fragrant and lightly toasted, about 10 minutes.
• Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350°F. Butter and flour a 9" springform pan or a 9" cake pan with 3" sides.
• To make the streusel, in a bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Toss in the butter and, using 2 table knives or a pastry cutter, cut it into the dry ingredients until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs. (Or you can whir the mixture in a food processor) Stir in the pecans.
• To make the batter, in a bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt. In the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and brown sugar on medium-high speed until well combined. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Add the pumpkin purée and sour cream and mix with the spatula. Stir in the flour mixture. The batter will be quite thick. Spread half of the batter in the prepared pan. Sprinkle half of the streusel over the batter. Dollop the remaining batter over the streusel and spread the thick batter as best you can. Top with the remaining streusel. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
• Let cool in the pan on a wire rack for about 15 minutes. Remove the sides from the pan and slide the cake onto the rack.
• To make the glaze, in a small bowl, whisk together the confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla. Drizzle over the top of the cake. Cut into thick wedges.

PECAN STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Grease bottoms and sides of 8-inch cake pan; dust with flour.
• To make streusel topping: mix together brown sugar, sugar, flour, cinnamon, mace, ginger, and allspice.
• Using pastry blender or fork, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add pecans and work some of the mixture onto the nuts; set aside.
• To make cake: cream together butter, brown sugar, and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla, mixing until smooth.
• Separately combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; mix well.
• Mix together dry ingredients with creamed butter and buttermilk, alternating with each, blending well after each addition.
• Pour half of batter into pan and smooth out; sprinkle half of streusel over batter.
• Pour remaining batter into pan and cover with remaining streusel. Bake at 350°F for 30-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Remove cake from oven and cool in pan 15-20 minutes.
• To remove from pan, invert plate over top and turn, remove pan, replace with plate and invert again. Replace dropped toppings to the top. Cut into wedges and serve.

GLUTEN FREE STREUSEL-TOPPED BLUEBERRY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Spray bottom and sides of 9-inch square pan with gluten-free cooking spray. Set aside.
• In small bowl, mix oat flour, brown sugar, oats, tapioca starch and cinnamon until blended. Use fork to stir in melted butter until mixture is crumbly. Set aside.
• In medium bowl, stir muffin mix, water, oil and eggs until blended. Pour batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle streusel evenly over batter.
• Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until streusel is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Wrap tightly; store at room temperature.

SOUR CREAM PECAN-STREUSEL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Set oven to 375 degrees F.
• Prepare 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
• For the pecan mixture, mix all ingredients; set aside.
• For the muffin batter, sift the first 4 dry ingredients together.
• Stir in the egg, sour cream and 1/3 cup butter just until moistened.
• Divide and fill batter tins 1/2 full with the batter.
• Cover with 1/2 of the pecan/sugar mixture.
• Then fill with remaining batter.
• Top/sprinkle with remaining pecan/sugar mixture.
• Bake for 20-22 minutes.