Bakery Style Crumb Cake Muffins
Crumb Cake Muffins have the light, fluffy cake and delicious cinnamon crumb topping of a New Jersey Crumb Cake - but in portable, take-away muffin form. Perfect for breakfast on the go or a snack!
Servings: 8 muffins
Calories: 398kcal
Ingredients
Crumb topping
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ¾ tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup cake flour
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
Muffins
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
Instructions
Prep
- Preheat oven to 325° Line 8 holes of a muffin pan with tulip liners or jumbo muffin liners.
Crumb topping
- Whisk sugar, cinnamon, salt, and all purpose flour in medium bowl to combine. Add melted butter and mix with sturdy rice paddle or wooden spoon until mixture resembles thick, crumbly dough. Refrigerate while you make the cake batter.
Muffin batter
- Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and kosher salt together in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Combine the wet ingredients, and pour into the dry ingredients and fold until just combined.
Assemble and bake
- Use a medium scoop or ¼ cup measuring cup to portion batter into liners. Top each muffin portion with a medium scoopful or ¼ cup of crumb topping.
- Bake at 325°F for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a skewer placed into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Allow to cool for 10 to 15 minutes, then dust generously with powdered sugar.
Notes
- Mix the batter only until the last of the dry ingredients is mixed in. Over-mixing can lead to dense muffins.
- If you have time, let the muffin batter rest for 10 minutes. This will allow the leavening agents to give their initial push to rise.
- These muffins can be made in a standard size muffin. See the full blog post for exact instructions.
- When baking, the cake batter is going to try and push up and out of the crumb topping in spots. Let the cake do as it wants. You're going to be covering them in the traditional snow shower of powdered sugar and no one will ever know!
Nutrition
Calories: 398kcal | Carbohydrates: 64g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 47mg | Sodium: 391mg | Potassium: 105mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 33g | Vitamin A: 323IU | Vitamin C: 0.03mg | Calcium: 113mg | Iron: 2mg