Coffee Cake Muffins
Mrs. Tucker loves a good muffin, don't you? When I was first married, and a beginning cook/baker, I made these Coffee Cake Muffins for special occasions, like birthdays and Christmas morning. Anyone who was lucky enough to be a recipient, raved.
They've been on my mind, so I decided to find the recipe and make them again, to see if they've stood the test of time.
Oh, momma. They have.
Can you smell the cinnamon goodness:
The delicious middle:
Light and fluffy inside:
Ingredients
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup chopped nuts
- 2 tbsp. flour
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 tbsp. melted butter
- 1 ½ cups sifted flour
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
- ¼ cup shortening
- 1 egg, beaten
- ½ cup half-and-half
Instructions
- Nut Mixture
- Combine brown sugar, nuts, flour, cinnamon and melted butter. Set aside.
- Muffin Batter
- Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Cut in shortening.
- Combine egg and milk, then add to flour mixture.
- Stir just until moistened.
- In greased muffin tins, spoon small amount of batter, add a spoonful of nut mixture, add more batter, then top with nut mixture. Once finished, muffin tins should be ⅔rds full.
- Bake @ 375° for 20 minutes.
Notes
~ You can substitute milk for half-and-half.
~ Makes 10 large muffins.
~ Best served warm
Do you know a newbie baker who's not sure of their mad cooking skills yet? Pass these along. Easy to make + taste bonanza = lots of payoff for their baking efforts.
Happy baking!
YUMMY!
YES!
I love coffee cake & muffins...great idea to combine them..these look amazing!
I wish it had been my idea, nevertheless, I baked them!
These muffins are to die for! My son doesn't like cinnamon, but loves mocha. So I melted a little butter and mixed in mocha powder & a little sugar to make a mocha crumble. Marbled that throughout 3 of the muffins & did the cinnamon mixture on the rest. Loved them both! I will make these again & again! Thank you for a great recipe!
Thank you for coming back and letting me you know you loved them! And the mocha sounds amazing. Glad you could satisfy everyone.
and what to do with the shortening?
#5: Cut in shortening.
It means to mix the shortening with the flour using a pastry cutter or fork. Put shortening in with flour, then keep pushing it thru fork or pastry cutter until it resembles peas.
Thank you,they were delicious:)
SUCCESS! So glad!
and what to do shortening
oooooh I am making these tonight!!!
Well?! Did you lurv them?