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Chocolate Chip Crumb Cake Muffins

These fluffy Chocolate Chip Crumb Cake Muffins are filled with chocolate chips, sweet cinnamon sugar, and loaded with a brown sugar crumb cake topping. One of my favorite muffin recipes!
Prep Time25 minutes
Cook Time17 minutes
Total Time42 minutes
Course: Bread
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chocolate chip crumb cake muffins
Servings: 12 muffins
Author: Michelle

Ingredients

Muffin Batter

  • 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp bakng powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp espresso powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup canola oil
  • 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
  • 2 Tbsp brewed coffee, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup sour cream, or greek yogurt
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup mini chocolate chips

Cinnamon Sugar:

  • 3 Tbsp granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Crumb Cake Topping:

  • 6 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 2/3 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a 12-cup muffin tin with muffin liners (the foil ones are my favorite, but any will do).

Muffins:

  • In a large bowl, mix flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, espresso powder, and salt together.
  • Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients (push the dry ingredients up around the sides so there’s a hole or ‘well’ in the center—this helps disperse the wet ingredients better).
  • Pour in the buttermilk, oil, brewed coffee, and eggs.
  • Gently mix the batter until the wet ingredients are just mixed in (the batter will still be very dry at this point).
  • Add in the sour cream and vanilla extract, and mix until all of the ingredients are just combined.
  • Lastly, add in the mini chocolate chips and mix until combined.
  • Fill the muffin tins about 2/3 of the way full with the batter. The batter makes about 12-14 muffins.

Cinnamon Sugar:

  • Mix the sugar and cinnamon together. Sprinkle on top of each of the muffins cups.

Crumb Cake Topping:

  • Mix all purpose flour, brown sugar and cinnamon together.
  • Add in the melted butter and mix with a fork until the mixture comes together and forms crumbs.
  • Generously sprinkle the crumb cake topping over each muffin, pressing the crumbs gently into the batter (to keep them from falling off in the oven as the muffins bake).
  • Bake muffins for 15-17 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.
  • If desired, you can sprinkle more mini chips on top of the muffins, or you can dust the muffins with powdered sugar.
  • Enjoy!