Streusel Muffin Topping Food

CLASSIC STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• In a large bowl, stir together the brown sugar, granulated sugar, all-purpose flour, cinnamon (if using), and salt.
• Add the pieces of cold butter into the bowl and use a pastry blender or fork to cut the butter into the mixture until it is the texture of coarse meal. You do not want it to become a cohesive dough.
• Use to top muffins, coffee cakes, or in place of a top crust on a pie. This streusel topping can be made in advance and kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3 days prior to using as a topping.

PUMPKIN MUFFINS WITH STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease or line 18 muffin cups with paper liners.
• Combine 2 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 cup oats, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Whisk pumpkin puree, 1 cup brown sugar, white sugar, vegetable oil, applesauce, eggs, and vanilla extract together in a separate large bowl. Stir flour mixture into pumpkin mixture; mix well. Fold in raisins.
• Beat 1/4 cup brown sugar with butter in a bowl until creamy and smooth. Whisk 2 tablespoons oats and 2 tablespoons flour, using a fork, into sugar-butter mixture until streusel topping is crumbly.
• Pour the batter into the prepared muffin tin. Sprinkle each muffin with streusel topping.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, 25 to 35 minutes.

JAN'S CRUMB TOPPING OR STREUSEL

Steps:

• Beat butter, white sugar, and brown sugar with an electric mixer until creamy. Mix flour and cinnamon into creamed butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Store in airtight container in the freezer until needed.

STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• mix all ingredients until crumbly -- .

STREUSEL TOPPED BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
• Combine 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in medium bowl. In a small bowl, sprinkle 1 to 2 tablespoons flour over blueberries, and set aside. (This simple trick will keep you from having "purple" batter)
• In a large bowl, beat 1/2 cup butter with 3/4 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, and stir in vanilla and lemon zest. Fold in dry ingredients alternately with milk. Fold in blueberries. Remember, fold gently, don't stir. Spoon batter into prepared cups.
• Combine 2 tablespoons flour, 5 tablespoons sugar ,and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon in a small bowl. Cut in 2 tablespoons butter with fork or pastry blender until mixture resembles course crumbs. Sprinkle over batter in muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack. These muffins freeze really well, and re-heat in the microwave successfully. Hope you enjoy!!

STREUSEL

Steps:

• Whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon and almonds in a medium mixing bowl.
• Add the butter and use your fingers to lightly knead into the dry ingredients until the mixture is crumbly and the butter is well incorporated.
• Use to top muffins, quick breads, crisps or ice cream. Store in an airtight container, in the refrigerator, for up to a month.

JUMBO BLUEBERRY MUFFINS WITH STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• Set oven to 375 degrees (350 degrees for convection oven).
• Prepare 7 jumbo muffin tins with jumbo paper liners.
• Prepare the streusel topping: In a small bowl, mix the sugar, flour and cinnamon together; cut in the butter with your fingers until crumbly, set aside in the fridge.
• For the muffins: Toss the fresh berries with 2 Tbsp sugar; set aside.
• In a large bowl, sift together, the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar, sift again (sifting twice!); add in the lemon zest and the coated blueberries; toss gently to mix.
• In a small bowl, whisk together the egg, cream (or milk, if using), melted butter and the almond extract until well combined.
• Add the egg mixture to the flour/berry mixture, mix gently with a wooden spoon JUST until combined (mixture is supposed to have lumps, and NOT be smooth, DO NOT OVERMIX!).
• Spoon batter evenly into each muffin tin.
• Sprinkle with streusel topping.
• Bake for approximately 25 minutes (for jumbo muffins), or until muffins test done with a toothpick.
• Cool for 15-20 minutes and remove with a butter knife slipped gently underneath the paper to lift, set to a wire rack.
• **NOTE** This can be made using frozen blueberries, but will take longer to bake, also to double the recipe, prepare in two seperate mixing bowls adding the same ingredients to each, do not double the recipe and make in one bowl!

EGGNOG MUFFINS WITH NUTMEG-STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• Prepare a muffin tin with paper liners or grease each cup.
• Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, and nutmeg in one bowl.
• In a second bowl, mix the eggs, eggnog, melted butter, vanilla, and rum extract.
• Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Stir until combined and dough is just moistened.
• Fill each cup 2/3 of the way full with the muffin batter.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Prepare streusel topping by combining the flour, sugar, and nutmeg. Cut in the butter until coarse crumbs are formed.
• Sprinkle each cup with streusel.
• Bake 18-20 minutes, or until a pick comes out clean.

ANY-FRUIT-WILL-DO MUFFINS WITH STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• For the streusel topping:.
• Mix sugar, cinnamon and pinch of salt in a small bowl or work bowl of a food processor, add butter. If mixing by hand, use fingertips, a pastry blender, or 2 forks to blend the fat into dry ingredients until mixture looks like coarse irregular crumbs, with no visible lumps of butter. If mixing in a food processor, pulse about 10 times, then process 5 to 10 seconds, until there are no visible lumps of butter; stir in nuts. Set aside.
• For the muffins:.
• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly grease the top surface of a 12-cup muffin pan; use liners, if necessary.
• Whisk 2 1/2 cups flour with next 4 ingredients in a medium bowl, set aside.
• Whisk together next 4 ingredients in a large bowl; whisk in buttermilk and vanilla. Gently whisk dry ingredients into wet ingredients to partially blend. Continue mixing batter with a rubber spatula, making sure that ingredients at the bottom are incorporated into batter fold in fruit. (Frozen fruit will help "firm" up batter. If batter seems too wet add a few more tablespoons of flour, up to 1/4 cup, to stiffen batter.).
• Using an ice-cream scoop, place a portion of batter into each muffin cup, filling to the brim. Sprinkle a portion of streusel topping over batter in each muffin cup.
• Bake 15 minutes, reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake 10 to 12 minutes or until muffins are golden brown and spring back when lightly pressed with fingertips. Let muffins cool in pan for 5 minutes then transfer them to a wire rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.
• NOTES:.
• To simplify muffin making, quadruple the streusel topping recipe and freeze.
• Orange, lemon, or lime zests can be used to flavor the muffins, if you like.
• Lemon works well with blueberry.
• Orange zest with cranberry or rhubarb.
• Lime zest with banana chunks.
• Almost any fruit works in this recipe. Good choices include:.
• apples, cut into small dice.
• bananas, cut into firm, small chunks.
• blueberries.
• cranberries, coarsely chopped.
• dried sour cherries or cranberries.
• raspberries.
• rhubarb, diced (fresh or frozen).
• strawberries, quartered or cut into small dice.
• To prevent delicate, highly colored fruits like raspberries, cranberries, and blueberries from getting mashed and discoloring the batter, use semi frozen fruit.
• It is not necessary to use paper baking liners if the muffin tin is commercial, glazed, or nonstick.

BLUEBERRY MUFFINS WITH STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat oven 400°F.
• Sift dry ingredients together in a large bowl. In another bowl, whisk eggs, buttermilk and butter that has been melted and browned slightly. Make a well in dry ingredients and pour in liquid ingredients, mixing quickly.
• Fold in blueberries (if using frozen DO NOT THAW). Spoon batter into greased muffin cups.
• For topping, combine sugar and flour. Cut in butter until mixture resembles course crumbs; sprinkle about 1 tablespoon over each muffin.
• Bake til golden brown. Bake at 400 F for 20 -30 minutes.