Perfect, large, moist, buttery cinnamony muffins. Really, these coffee cake muffins are much better than a coffee cake. They taste almost the same but isn't it lovely to have a coffee cake in a small muffin shape? These also have a yummy cinnamon swirl inside and the tops sprinkled with sugar are slightly crunchy. This recipe is a keeper, I'm sure I'm going to make them lots of times in the future. And they also keep very well. At least two days. You see, I can't tell how long they keep moist because they didn't last three days. I believe you won't have this problem either. They will disappear quite soon.
120g softened butter
200g sugar
2 large eggs
240g sour cream
265g flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp butter (for greasing muffin cups)
2 tsp cinnamon (for the topping)
100g sugar (for the topping)
1) Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease the muffin tin with butter.
2) In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, sour cream and beat to combine. Add the flour, baking powder and vanilla extract. Beat on low speed until well blended.
3) Divide the batter among the muffin cups only filling them halfway. In a separate small bowl, mix the cinnamon and sugar for the topping. Sprinkle the batter with about half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Place the remaining batter on top of the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture.
4) Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffin comes out with a few moist crumbs. Don't overbake. Let cool 15 minutes and serve.
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I adore how domed your muffins are! And that last picture; I can never figure out how to get a good picture of a muffin or cupcake cut in half. Now I do! I also really like putting sour cream in coffee cakes (or muffins!:) because how moist it makes them!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I was very happy when I saw how beautifully they rose in the oven, like real muffins! I took sooo many photos of cut in half muffins and it was so hard to pick the best one. I'm glad I chose a good one :)
DeleteCoffee cake is one of my very favorite breakfast treats.. or muffins.. no coffee cake... Either way these sound like the perfect combo!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Alyson! I agree with you - it's perfect for breakfast. :)
DeleteNow to convert all that to US units. I really do hate that we're the only ones not using metric.
ReplyDeleteHere's one good site: http://www.traditionaloven.com/conversions_of_measures/butter_converter.html. On the right sidebar you can find different ingredients. Hope this helps :)
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