My family members, or at least my step-dad, are avid soccer watchers. His favorite team at this point is England, and they happened to be playing Sunday against Italy. So, in honor of the game, we had a small get together with munchies and friends. I volunteered to make something, I was hoping desperately I could land the baking spot. And with my luck, I did! I now had to rack my brain for a baked good I had not already made, or at least a variation of something I already had. Frantically, my brain went through the usual checklist. Cookies? long done; cupcakes? over-used; cake? boring; brownies? yummy, but I just made them last week. Then, for some odd reason my head kept going back to cupcakes. Cupcakes are so last year, why couldn’t I get them out of my brain? Finally, the lightbulb went off, I wasn’t picturing cupcakes; I was picturing a muffin! I tore through my brain, finding a better version of the overdone chocolate chip or blueberry muffin. And finally my eyes landed on the coffee pot. I knew what I would make, coffee cake muffins.
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 canola oil
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 cup + 1 Tb. sugar
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1-1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 Tb. unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. nutmeg
- 1-1/2 Tbsp. flour
- 1/4 cup walnuts, finely chopped
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- For the muffin, sift together all of the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Then, in a large measuring cup, mix all of the wet ingredients.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir until only slightly lumpy.
- DO NOT OVERMIX, over mixing will lead to heavy, doughy muffins, that will stick to their wrappers. Mix the topping ingredients all together in a small mixing bowl, preferably with your hands. Do not add the topping before you put the muffins in the oven, it will just sink to the bottom.
- Scoop the muffin mix evenly into regular-sized muffin tins, lined with paper wrappers.
- After five minutes of cooking pull the muffins out and add the topping.
- Put back in for another nine minutes.
- The muffins should bake for about fourteen minutes altogether.
- Recipe makes a dozen regular-sized, delicious muffins.
Hah, don’t talk about avid soccer watchers:)Me and my family fall into the same category:)With only one difference,that our fav team is Italy and you can not imagine our excitement of their qualification for the final on Sun:) Which team you are going to be supporting, Italy or Spain? I am really thanksful for the receipt though and will def try ito ut for this Sun gathering, as even I have an Italian cousin, who will watch the game with us:)Big thanks for sharing it:)