A handheld version of your favorite coffee cake! A sweet sour cream muffin is piled high with cinnamon streusel topping and finished with a vanilla glaze. Perfect muffin recipe for a breakfast or brunch!
Preheat the oven to 350° and line the muffin tin(s) with paper liners.
Cinnamon Streusel
In a bowl add the sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt. Pour in the melted butter and stir it together until it is all combined and crumbly. Set aside.
Muffin Batter
In a bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment (or a bowl and a hand held mixer with a whisk attachment) add the melted butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla and whisk until it is combined.
Whisk in one egg at a time, then whisk in the sour cream until it is all combined.
Finally whisk in the dry ingredients (the flour mixture), just until it is combined.
Spoon the batter into the lined muffin tin, so that each cup is about ¾ full.
Top each muffin with 1 -1.5 tablespoon of the cinnamon streusel mixture, lightly pressing it into the batter so that it adheres during baking.
Bake for 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean (no raw batter). Remove from the oven and cool for 5-10 minutes. Remove the muffins from the muffin tin and cool for another 5-10 minutes, while you make the vanilla glaze.
Vanilla Glaze
In a small bowl stir together the vanilla glaze ingredients. Drizzle generously over the warm coffee cake muffins. Tip:place the muffins on a cooling rack over a baking sheet or on a piece of parchment paper. It will make clean up from the drizzle a lot easier!
Notes
STORING: Store leftover coffee cake muffins in an airtight container at room temp for up to 4 days. RECIPE TIPS:
Use full fat sour cream to make sure you have tender and moist muffins.
Once you add the flour to your muffin batter, don't over mix. Only mix until the flour is combined into the batter.
Don't be shy with the streusel topping, use it all!
Lightly press the streusel into the batter. That will help it adhere to the muffins during baking.
Place the muffins on a cooling rack over a parchment lined baking sheet or counter top before drizzling with the glaze. It will make clean up much faster!