Apple Coffee Cake Muffins
These apple coffee cake muffins are bursting with fresh apples, swirled with cinnamon sugar, and topped with a buttery brown sugar crumb topping. All the flavors of coffee cake, in muffin form!
Servings: 12
Calories: 249kcal
Ingredients
Apple Coffee Cake Muffins
- 2 cups all purpose flour (250g; spooned, fluffed & levelled)
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup packed brown sugar (165g)
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup milk (buttermilk recommended but any milk works)
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups of apples (peeled and diced into 1 cm pieces)
Cinnamon Sugar Swirl
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar {55g}
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
Crumble Topping
- 2 tablespoons cold butter (cut into pieces; 28g)
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar (55 g)
- ¼ cup all purpose flour (32 g)
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
Cinnamon Sugar Swirl
- Combine ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
Crumble Topping
- Combine brown sugar, flour and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Cut the butter in using a pastry tool. Mix until coarse and crumbly {see photos above}. Set aside.
Muffins
- Pre-heat oven to 400°F. Line a standard-sized muffin pan with large muffin papers and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and brown sugar.
- In a separate bowl, beat egg, and add in the milk and vegetable oil. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry with a spoon, mixing until just combined. Do not overmix!
- Fold in the apples.
- Spoon 1 tablespoon of muffin batter into the bottom of each muffin paper. Add a teaspoon of cinnamon sugar mixture, then top with remaining batter until the well is completely full. Spread a heaping spoonful of the crumble topping on top.
- Bake for 18-22 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
Nutrition
Serving: 1muffin | Calories: 249kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 151mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 25g