Plum Muffins With Almond Streusel Food

STREUSEL-TOPPED PLUM MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extracts. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with cream. Fold in plums. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full., For topping, in a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, flour and cinnamon; cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in walnuts. Sprinkle over batter; sprinkle with coarse sugar. , Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm.

PLUM MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
• Combine sugar, pureed plums, pecans, honey, eggs, vanilla extract, and cinnamon in a blender; blend until smooth. Pour batter into a large bowl and add baking mix; stir well. Spoon into the prepared muffin tin.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 25 minutes. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

BLUEBERRY MUFFINS WITH ALMOND STREUSEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Combine flours, oats, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk.
• Make a well in center of mixture.
• Combine yogurt, milk, oil, vanilla and egg substitute stirring with a whisk.
• Add yogurt mixture to flour mixture.
• Stir just until moist.
• Gently fold in blueberries.
• Spoon 2 rounded tablespoons of the batter into each of 30 muffin cups that have been coated with cooking spray.
• Combine 1/4 cup whole wheat flour, almonds, brown sugar and butter (or margarine). Sprinkle evenly over batter.
• bake at 400 for 15 minutes or until muffins spring back when touched dlightly in center.
• Cook in pans 10 minutes on a wire rack.
• remove from pans.
• Serve warm or at room temperature.

PLUM MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Generously grease 12 muffin cups or line with papers.
• Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
• Whisk to blend thoroughly.
• In a separate bowl. whisk milk, egg, melted butter, and almond.
• Make a well in the center of dry ingredients and pour in the egg mixture.
• Blend with a wooden spoon until a moist, lumpy batter is formed.
• Stir in plums.
• Spoon into prepared cups and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool on a rack for 5 minutes, then remove to a rack to cool completely.

KITTENCAL'S BANANA-ALMOND MUFFINS WITH ALMOND STREUSEL

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees F.
• For the topping; in a bowl mix together the flour, brown sugar and cinnamon; blend in the soft butter using your fingertips, then add in the finely chopped almonds; set aside.
• Line 12 regular muffin tins with paper liners.
• In a medium or large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
• In another bowl beat the melted butter with sugar, egg and vanilla extract until well blended (about 2 minutes) add in the mashed bananas, mix until just blended.
• Using a wooden spoon mix in the flour mixture until JUST blended (the batter will be lumpy).
• Mix in the chopped almonds.
• Divide the batter evenly between 12 muffin tins, then sprinkle the topping mixture on top of each muffin.
• Bake for about 20 minutes, or until muffins test done.

PLUM STREUSEL COFFEECAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. and butter and flour a 9-inch round or square baking pan at least 2 inches deep.
• Make streusel:
• In a food processor pulse together streusel ingredients until combined well and crumbly.
• Make cake batter:
• In a bowl with an electric mixer beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy and add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, and vanilla. Sift in flour with baking powder and salt and beat until just combined.
• Spread cake batter in pan, smoothing top, and arrange plum slices over it in slightly overlapping concentric circles. Sprinkle streusel over plum slices and bake cake in middle of oven 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean. Coffeecake may be made 1 week ahead: Cool cake completely in pan on a rack and freeze, wrapped well in plastic wrap and foil. Reheat cake, unwrapped but not thawed, in a preheated 350°F. oven until heated through, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool cake slightly on a rack and sift confectioners' sugar over it. Serve coffeecake warm or at room temperature.