Mini Coffee Cake Muffins
EASY RECIPE for Mini Coffee Cake Muffins that taste just like Coffee Cake! Add a cinnamon sugar crumble on top! They are so quick to make! My family loves them for breakfast and dessert! Recipe makes 16 mini muffins.
These Mini Coffee Cake Muffins are delicious. D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S! As a kid one of my favorite desserts was coffee cake – breakfast, dessert, holidays – it didn’t matter, when I saw it I was always going to have a piece! I have fond memories of sitting down at the kitchen as a child, cutting up a little slice and eating it. I also have memories of that slice never lasting very long, because I was so excited to eat it!
Well it’s a good thing that I’m a adult now so that means I can make a entire batch of Coffee Cake muffins and eat them all if I want! That’s one of the bonuses of being a adult!
Coffee Cake Muffins Recipe
I was recently craving a piece of coffee cake but wasn’t in the mood to make a entire cake. I really love mini muffins because since they are small it means I can eat 1 (or 2 or 3 or 4….) without guilt. For these Mini Coffee Cake Muffins, they taste just like traditional Coffee Cake with the moist cake and the cinnamon sugar crumble on top.
These are hands down one of my family’s favorite recipes that I make. You can serve them for breakfast or dessert! They also make a great holiday treat if you like to make your bake gifts for your family!
How to make Coffee Cake Muffins
For this recipe you’ll need need 2 bowls. One to make the cake in, the other to make that extra yummy cinnamon sugar crumble.
The muffins will need a couple dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Then add in your wet ingredients: butter, egg, milk and vanilla. Some coffee cake muffin recipes call for sour cream, but these are so moist and fluffy without the sour cream!
Next fill up your mini muffin pan. I love using this pan in the kitchen and consider it one of my favorite baking tools.
Now add your crumble on top. It might seem like alot of crumble to put on top but you have to trust me on this.
Cinnamon Sugar Crumble Topping
Your crumble is made up of flour, sugar, cinnamon and melted butter. In a small bowl combine your flour, sugar and cinnamon with a fork. Next, add in your melted butter and mix until you have a crumbly mixture. Make sure to watch the embedded video if you have any questions on how to make the crumble!
And about 15 minutes later beautiful Mini Coffee Cake Muffins come out of the oven.
They will be overflowing out of their pan with sugar crumble goodness. I let these cool for about 15 minutes and then used a butter knife to gently remove them.
Can you freeze muffins?
Yes, you can absolutely freeze these muffins. I wait until they cool and then I put in freezer bags. When I’m ready to eat a muffin (or serve one to my daughter for breakfast!) I will take one out of the bag and heat it in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds. It’s that easy!
I hope you enjoy these Coffee Cake muffins as much as we do! Just a warning though, they’re addictive! 🙂
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Mini Coffee Cake Muffins
EASY RECIPE for Mini Coffee Cake Muffins that taste just like Coffee Cake! Add a cinnamon sugar crumble on top! They are so quick to make. My family loves them for breakfast and dessert! Recipe makes 16 mini muffins.
Ingredients
For the muffins
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup butter - melted
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
For the crumble topping
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons butter - melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a mini muffin pan with nonstick spray.
- For the muffins: In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add in melted butter and mix with fork so the mixture is crumbly. Add egg, milk and vanilla. Continue mixing with a fork so everything is combined. Pour this mixture into the mini muffin pan - it should fill up approximately 16 muffins.
- For the crumble topping: In a small bowl combine flour, sugar and cinnamon. Add melted butter and mix with fork so the mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle this mixture on top of the muffins. Keep sprinkling until it's all gone.
- Bake for 14-15 minutes.
- Let cool for 10 minutes before removing muffins from pan.
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
Makes 16 mini muffins.
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Those mini muffins look delicious Pamela, saved this one, love coffee cake!!
These are SO cute!! I can’t wait to try them. Why are miniature foods so much fun to eat?
Anything with crumble topping is totally irresistible!
All I want is to wake up to a platter of these to enjoy with my morning coffee 🙂
Coffee cake my favorite dessert too, great recipe Pamela!
I loveeee coffee cake! And these are so pop-able! haha I feel like I would be dangerous around them… 🙂
Love that topping! I know I wouldn’t be able to stop at just one. 🙂
How lovely! These look delightful♥
These are so pretty; love a good coffee cake!
Love the idea of making coffee cake into mini muffins! I’ll definitely have two, but that really won’t be overindulging. Great idea, super recipe. Thanks!
once you pop, you can’t stop. 16 mini muffins will disappear into my stomach in no time. 🙂
Whoa! Yum-mo! Do they taste as terrific as they look? Smiles, Linda at Paper Seedlings
These turned out great! I was worried when I saw the lumpy batter but they cooked up perfect 🙂
I’m so happy to hear you liked these muffins Hannah, thanks for letting me know!
Did they come out of the pan with ease? Could you use liners? Thanks.
Hey Charlene, if you spray the pay with nonstick spray they will come out of the pan with ease. Alternatively you could use mini liners if you want! Enjoy!
Would it be ok to use the paper cupcake liners?
Absolutely! Enjoy!
Receipe sounds great, but wold it work in a regular size muffin pan? If yes, how long would it bake for? Thanks
Hey Cheri – yes, they would. If you are making regular size muffins, bake for 25-27 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Enjoy!
Nice profile picture.
Would you also double the recipe if you were making regular size muffins? 12 count?
Yes Bonnie, that would be perfect. If you are making regular size muffins, you will need to bake longer – approximately 25 minutes.
These look incredible! Man, I totally want to make some right now! Thanks for sharing your awesome recipe. 🙂
Just stopping by again to say thank you so much for sharing your delicious recipe with us at Merry Monday! Pinning to our party board!!
Would these freeze good do you think? They look amazing but I’d love to have mini muffins we can eat slowly.
Hey Hope, yes, these muffins freeze really well. After baking, let cool completely and then wrap/put in freezer safe bags for freezing. Enjoy!
These mini coffee cake muffins look so yummy.
Thanks for sharing at Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop. Hope you come back next week so I can stop by again.
Bev
These yummy muffins are my feature for todays party! Tonight
Maria
Pamela, These muffins look so yummy that I’ve decided to make a batch of them this week. And because I love them so much, I’ve chosen these muffins as one of my features tomorrow evening at Share Your Style. Congratulations!
These came together easily and I can’t wait to try them, but I only got 12 mini muffins out of this recipe. Wondering why?
Hey Jacki, the recipe makes 16 mini muffins so it just sounds like you filled some of the cups up a little too much. Enjoy!
when i made my crumble it turned like a paste and i reyes it like ten more times and it turned out the same way. i even tried it with cold butter?????
Hey Brianna, I just uploaded a video to this recipe that shows you how to make the crumble. Hope this helps!
I’ll take 30 of these right now! 🙂
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Hello Pamela! These little muffins look scrumptious! Thanks for sharing the recipe. Pinning! 😀
These look delicious! I love how mini muffins cut down the time baking but not the taste!
YUM! These look amazing! 🙂 Can’t wait to try them!
Oh my! These look delicious! I know what I want for breakfast. Thanks for sharing!
These look amazing! Thanks for linking up with us at Family Joy Blog Link Up party. Hope we see you next week.
These look so good! Thanks for sharing them at the Creative Corner Link Up Party. I’d love to make these for my family this coming weekend!
These would be nice to serve to guests. Good idea to put them in mini form. Thanks for sharing at Family Joy Blog linkup.
These look cute AND delicious! I can’t wait to try them! #fdflinkparty
Saw these at Foodie Friday and I am in love!! Absolutely love coffee cake so I will NEED to make these soon! Thanks for sharing!!!
The look delicious! Especially that crumble topping ?
Making these today! Yum!
Visiting from #SITSBlogging
I don’t think you can have too much crumble, these are perfect!
Yum! These look so good and I’m pretty sure my kids will love them too!
My mouth is watering! These look so yummy! Thanks for sharing for IDIYedThat!
It looks delicious. I guess the coffee part is what you drink as you munch too many little cakes. We will feature this lovely recipe on Friday. Nice job.
Kathleen
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These look amazing and I can just imagine enjoying one or three with a cup of coffee. 🙂
Pinning.
I love coffee cake too! Pinning and shared the video on FB!
Pinning to make later. Thank you for sharing at the Snickerdoodle Create~Bake~Make link party!
I am featuring your recipe tomorrow at Snickerdoodle.
These look so yummy, one of my big faults, love home baked. Do you use unsalted or salted butter recipe doesn’t say. Don’t usually buy butter so want to be sure to get correct kind. Can hardly wait to make these little jewels, something different will be wonderful. Thx for sharing recipe.
Hey JaneEllen, I pretty much use salted butter for all my baking needs. Hope this helps – enjoy!
I tried to make the crumbs and it came out like streusel… what did i do wrong?
Oh these look yummy and the perfect addition to my morning coffee. They look very easy to make… that I might include the kiddos in this baking adventure. Thank you for sharing!
Cheers,
Lisa at Dreams and Caffeine
I pinned it!! Looks delish!!
Oh my these look so good! I have to try them- glad you have an easy to print recipe!
Pinned! These sound amazing! 🙂
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Yup! I need these in my life with a scoop of vanilla ice cream! Thanks for sharing on the Inspire Me Wednesday Linky Party!
Mmmm! My problem would be sticking to just one (or two…or three….). Thanks so much for sharing at the #happynowlinkup!
I never met a coffeecake I didn’t love! thanks for the recipe! Found you via the link party and would love to have you visit my blog and post here: http://www.hellolovelystudio.com/2017/06/come-enjoy-cupcakes-and-cocktails-in-my.html. PEACE TO YOU RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE.
Those look so yummy. Will have to try and make them.
These look delicious!! Coffee Cake is such a great comfort food.
I also like how easy it is to whip up some with ingredients always on hand in my baking cabinet.
Thanks for sharing this recipe!
These looks delicious! I love coffee cake, but never think to make it. I don’t even have a mini muffin tin at home, but now I want to get one. I’m stopping by from SITS Girls this morning and I’m so thankful you linked this up. I’ve pinned it to make later!
These look so delicious! I love mini muffins the best because I can have more than one:) Thanks for sharing!
These are so cute!! Pinned. What delicious little mouthfuls of goodness! Thank you so much for sharing, and for being a part of Hearth and Soul.
These are the cutest looking muffins. And I bet they must taste awesome too. Sharing them with my daughter who is the baker of the house!
Hi! I really want to make these for breakfast one morning but we only have margarine… will it work?
Hey Hales, margarine doesn’t bake like butter so I cant promise exact results. I think they would turn out ok but you might need to add more time or have a issue with them setting in the muffin pan. I hope you give it a shot and let me know.
I made these tonight but they didn’t turn out as I thought. I definitely overfilled the muffin tins, but I also think my batter was too watery. Going to attempt again tomorrow with less milk.
My family was craving coffee cake but I decided to make muffins instead – everyone loved these! They were soft, sweet and we loved the topping!
I doubled this recipe and mine look like one of those Pinterest fails. Lol! Wish I could share a picture. Not sure what went wrong. They’re delicious! Just ugly!
Hahaha, awww Stephanie! It’s ok – the taste is all that matters! Enjoy! 🙂
First off I need to get something off my chest …..72 posts and only maybe 3 or 4 people have actually MADE these?? People read the comments to see how the recipe works – not to see others opinions on how they look or might taste! This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine! Ok, rant over lol. Made these this morning, I doubled the recipe and made ‘normal’ size muffins. I tossed half a teaspoon of cinnamon into the batter as well since I’m a cinnamon fiend lol. They are delicious! Nice change from blueberry or apple or pumpkin muffins. They were very simple to make and they taste amazing…and that crumble! Will definitely be making these again 🙂
Hey Jane – I love the addition of cinnamon you added to these muffins! Glad you enjoyed the muffins and the crumble! Thanks for commenting and letting me know!
Made these with my 2yr old! We used almond milk ( out of cow milk), and added finely chopped walnuts to the streusel. Oh, and nutmeg to the batter. They worked great, and he batch die was perfect! Thanks!
Hey Emily, your muffins sound delicious! I’m glad you both enjoyed!
Can someone please tell me how to find the recipe? I see the video but I can’t find the exact measurements to make!
Your site is so cute and this recipe using a crumble topping lured me right in. I watched the video and measured carefully. The batter is just fine but I will say the topping is nothing like your picture. I read that someone else had trouble with it being “paste-like” and I had the same results with it running off the batter during baking. They don’t look very good at all although the taste is ok. I unfortunately won’t be taking them to share like I had planned.
Hey Melinda, I’m sorry to hear the topping didn’t turn out like mine did. There’s a step by step video above that shows how I made the crumble – hope this helps!
By the look of the yummy topping I’m assuming it’s brown sugar you’re using not white.
Hey Cathy, it’s actually white sugar. There’s a video embedded in the post so you can see the sugar. The cinnamon turns it brown. Enjoy!
These look so yummy!!! I am making them for a baby shower that is serving brunch foods. Do you think I can put the muffin mix together the night before and then bake them in the morning?
Hey Cindy, I wouldn’t recommend making muffin batter the night before as it won’t result in fluffy muffins. To help you with time, you can measure the wet and dry ingredients and keep them separated until time to combine. Hope this helps!
Thank you! That’s what I will do!
These tasted okay, but I was disappointed in the appearance. The streusel topping spread over the top of the muffin cups onto the flat part of the muffin pan. I made 20 mini muffins, but maybe my muffin cups were still too full. It was disappointing to lose so much of the delicious streusel topping.
Hey Claire, glad you liked the taste of these muffins. By the sound of it, it seems like the crumble melted off the muffins. This could be because there was too much butter used, or the butter wasn’t melted to make the crumble. Please see the post of before and after pictures so you can see how the crumble should look. There’s also a helpful muffin video at the end of this post that shows how I make the crumble: https://brooklynfarmgirl.com/2013/06/19/mini-moist-banana-muffins-3/. Hope this helps!
These were a spur of a moment baking project on Sunday morning but they turned out amazing! I took them to a Sunday brunch and they were the first dish gone! I was worried about the crumble melting off the muffins but mine ended up looking pretty good!
Hey Jenny, I’m so happy to hear you liked these muffins! I’m glad they were a fun Sunday morning project for you! Thanks for commenting!
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Made these, and they were delicious!
I’m so happy to hear that Rosanne, thanks for commenting and letting me know!
These muffins are GREAT! I doubled the recipe and made 12 regular sized muffins instead of the mini size. Delicious and so very quick and easy. Thanks for the recipe.
Hey Mary, so happy you liked these muffins! Now I’m craving them! 🙂 Thanks for commenting and letting me know!
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This recipe came out perfect and made 24 mini cakes. It was just what I was searching for as a snack to have with coffee.
Hey Donna, thanks so much for commenting! I’m so happy you like the muffins, sounds like the perfect coffee snack!
I made these this morning and they turned out delicious. The crumble recipe didn’t seem to work for me though. It turned more into a paste than a crumble. Should it be made with cold butter instead of melted butter?
Loved them! I made 6 regular size muffins and next time I’m going to convert it 2 an 8 inch square pan and add mini chocolate chips into the batter.
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Taste wonderful and portion control for my diabetic friends and I. Thank you for sharing the recipe!
Hey Roxie, thanks so much for commenting! I’m so happy you liked the muffins!
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Is there a modification to make these in a bread pan? 🙂
Hey Julia, do you mean you want to turn this recipe into Coffee Cake bread?
I’m going to add mini chocolate chips to the batter. Also going to bake it in an 8×8 pan.
That sounds delicious – enjoy the recipe!
Love this! Thank you so much. I subbed almond milk and vegan butter to make vegan, turned out great! I also stirred the crumble in just a little bit after topping, they baked better that way (crumble topping didn’t spill onto the top of the pan, losing all that goodness!). Oh! and my mini muffin tin makes 24 little baby muffins, so I cooked about 10 min. New staple in my baking repertoire, thank you!
Hey Amelia, I love your vegan substitutions (I love almond milk!). Thanks for commenting, I’m so happy you liked the muffins!
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Hi Pamela,
I came across this yummy recipe today and it looked so easy and I had all the ingredients at hand that I just whipped it up! It was delicious! However, I had some trouble with the crumble. I put it on top and as it baked it just seemed to melt in and it didn’t look like a crumble. A little yes and some not. Have any hints?
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