Bakery-Style Fresh Cranberry Orange Streusel Muffins
These big beautiful festive Bakery-Style Muffins feature Fresh Cranberries, Orange Zest, and a beautiful Orange Zest Sugar Streusel on top! They are tender, moist, and bursting with the flavors of the season!
Ingredients
Muffins
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/8 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 4 Tablespoons butter melted and cooled (salted butter is fine)
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- grated zest of 1 orange
- 1 3/4 cups fresh cranberries divided with 1/4 cup reserved
Orange Zest Sugar Topping
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- grated zest of 1/2 an orange
Instructions
- For the topping combine 1/4 cup of sugar and grated zest of 1/2 an orange. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a standard 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners and spray with cooking spray. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl; set aside.
- In a separate medium bowl, or in the bowl of your mixer, mix together the sugar and eggs until thick and lemon colored. Add butter and oil. Slowly whisk in the buttermilk, vanilla, almond extract, and orange zest.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry along with 1 1/2 cups of fresh cranberries. Fold together until just combined; do not over mix.
- Fill muffin cups full with batter, mounding slightly. Press the remaining 1/4 cup cranberries into the top of the muffins and sprinkle with orange sugar topping.
- Bake for 16-17 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Makes 12 muffins.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 289kcalCarbohydrates: 47gProtein: 5gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 42mgSodium: 360mgFiber: 1gSugar: 26g
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