Cranberry Orange Muffins With Streusel Topping Recipes

CRANBERRY ORANGE MUFFINS WITH STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400F degrees and line standard muffin pan with paper liners and set aside.
• To make the crumb topping in a small bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, and cinnamon, add melted butter and stir with a fork until crumbly, and place in the fridge until ready to use.
• To make the muffins in a large bowl stir together flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together egg, orange zest, and granulated sugar until combined. Whisk in yogurt, orange juice, and oil (mixture should be pale yellow).
• Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients and whisk everything together.
• In a small bowl sprinkle 1 ¼ cup cranberries with 1-2 tablespoon flour and toss them until all berries are coated with a thin layer of flour and then fold them really gently in the batter.
• Spoon batter into prepared muffin tins, filling about 2/3 of each cup. Cover generously with streusel topping. Stick a few cranberry halves on each muffin.
• Place them in the oven and reduce the heat to 375F, bake about 18-20 minutes or until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

STREUSEL-TOPPED ORANGE CRANBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Make streusel by combining muesli, flour, brown sugar and salt in a bowl.
• Add butter and water to mixture.
• Using fingertips, mash together until mixture forms small pieces.
• Place in freezer until firm, about 30 minutes.
• Place the juice in a saucepan over medium-high heat and reduce to 1/2 cup.
• Cool slightly.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spray muffin tin with cooking spray.
• Sift together dry ingredients.
• In a separate bowl, combine butter, yogurt, vanilla extract, orange peel and reduced orange juice.
• Add egg and egg white and combine thoroughly by hand using a wire whisk.
• Add dry ingredients to wet mixture in two parts.
• Mix by hand until just combined.
• Gently fold in cranberries.
• Divide batter evenly between muffin cups.
• Sprinkle 2 teaspoons of streusel topping on top of each muffin.
• Bake muffins until tops are lightly golden and a toothpick comes out clean, about 35 minutes.
• Remove muffin pan from oven and cool on wire rack for 5 minutes.
• Remove muffins from pan and cool completely on wire rack.