Homemade Apple Cinnamon Muffins with a Crumb Cake Topping are soft and fluffy, full of sweet cinnamon apples, and have a cinnamon glaze drizzled on top.
Prep Time25 minutesmins
Cook Time16 minutesmins
Total Time41 minutesmins
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Servings: 12muffins
Author: Michelle
Ingredients
Oat Crumb Topping
5Tbspbutter, cold and cubed
6Tbspbrown sugar
5Tbspall purpose flour
1/2 cupold fashioned rolled oats
Apples
1 1/4cupsapples, finely chopped
2tsplemon zest
1/2tspcinnamon
1/8tspcloves
1/8tspall spice
Batter
2cupsall purpose flour
1/4cupsugar
1/4cupbrown sugar
2tspbaking powder
1/4tspbaking soda
1/2tspsalt
3/4tspcinnamon
3/4cupbuttermilk
6Tbspcanola oil (or vegetable)
1egg
1tspvanilla extract
Cinnamon Glaze
3/4 - 1cuppowdered sugar
1 - 2Tbspmilk
1/4 - 1/2tspcinnamon
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a 12-cup muffin tin with muffin liners. Set aside.
Topping
Mix brown sugar, flour and rolled oats together. With a pastry cutter, fork or masher, cut butter into mixture and work together until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside.
Apples
Mix apples with cinnamon, cloves, allspice and zest. Set aside.
Muffins
In a large bowl, mix flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and ground cinnamon together.
Make a well in the center of the ingredients, and add in the buttermilk, egg, canola oil and vanilla extract.* Mix until just combined.
Fold in the chopped apples, mixing until just combined.
Fill muffin cups with about 2/3 cup batter (this should make about 12-13 standard size muffins).
Generously sprinkle the oat topping into each muffin cup, pressing the crumb down into the batter.
Bake for about 15-16 minutes, or until muffins are lightly golden and a toothpick (or cake tester) comes out clean.
While the muffins are cooling, make the glaze.
Glaze
Whisk powdered sugar and milk together, beginning with 3/4 cup of powdered sugar and 1 Tbsp of milk. If the glaze is too thin, add in the remaining 1/4 cup of powdered sugar (1 Tbsp at a time). If the glaze is too thick, drizzle in the remaining Tbsp of milk. Whisk in cinnamon (use a 1/4 tsp for a subtle cinnamon flavor; use 1/2 tsp for a robust cinnamon flavor).
Drizzle the glaze over each muffin.
Enjoy!
Notes
*It's easy to over mix batter, which creates tough and dry muffins. By making a well in the dry ingredients and pouring the liquid into it, you minimize the amount of mixing because you are maximizing the contact of wet to dry ingredients.