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Lemon Coffee Cake Muffins
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
45 mins
Total Time
1 hr
 

Enjoy one of these jumbo lemon coffee cake muffins with lemon glaze, and start the day with a smile! Make 6 JUMBO muffins or 12 regular muffins.

Category: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: lemon coffee cake muffins
Servings: 6 huge muffins
Calories Per Serving: 985 kcal
Author: JB @ The Grateful Girl Cooks!
Ingredients
For The Muffin Batter:
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup butter , room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 Tablespoons Lemon Zest
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup buttermilk
For The Streusel Topping:
  • 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup butter , chilled
For The Glaze:
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 3 Tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice
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Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Butter or spray a jumbo (6 cup) muffin pan OR a regular 12 cup muffin pan.
  2. Make the streusel by combining flour, brown sugar and salt. Cut in chilled butter with a pastry cutter OR pulse in a food processor until butter is size of small peas and evenly distributed. Refrigerate mix.
  3. To make muffins: Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in large bowl; set this aside. In a separate bowl (or stand mixer), beat the butter and sugar on medium low until mixture is creamy. Add the lemon zest, then slowly add one egg at a time (while beating on low and scraping down edges), until fully combined. Add vanilla extract and blend.
  4. Alternate adding 1/3 of buttermilk and 1/3 of the flour mixture, blending together until all has been added and mixed into batter. Divide batter into 6 greased jumbo muffin cups (or 12 regular muffin cups). Distribute the streusel over the entire surface of each muffin.

  5. Bake muffins (jumbo sized) in 350 preheated oven for 45-55 minutes, or until done. (If you are making 12 regular sized muffins, make sure to reduce the cooking time!). You can test for doneness by inserting a toothpick into center of muffin. If it comes out clean, muffins are done. Let muffins cool completely in the pan, then remove muffins to a wire rack (with a piece of aluminum foil underneath to catch drips from glaze).

  6. To make glaze, whisk the powdered sugar and fresh lemon juice together. Drizzle the glaze over the tops of the cooled muffins. Let sit until glaze firms up, then serve and enjoy!
Recipe Notes

NOTE: If making 12 muffins (standard size), the calories per muffin is 492. Remember to reduce cooking time if you are preparing 12 muffins instead of 6 jumbo sized muffins. 

Nutrition Facts
Lemon Coffee Cake Muffins
Amount Per Serving (1 muffin)
Calories 985 Calories from Fat 378
% Daily Value*
Fat 42g65%
Saturated Fat 26g163%
Cholesterol 161mg54%
Sodium 1369mg60%
Potassium 276mg8%
Carbohydrates 143g48%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 82g91%
Protein 12g24%
Vitamin A 1325IU27%
Vitamin C 4.9mg6%
Calcium 131mg13%
Iron 4.1mg23%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.