Golden brown muffins with soft and sweet crumble topping.
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 1/3 cups raspberries, fresh or frozen (thawed)
1/2 cup grated apple, your choice
3 large eggs, fork-beaten
1/3 cup vegetable oil (canola can be used)
1/3 cup buttermilk (or reconstituted from powder)
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 tablespoons margarine or 3 tablespoons butter, hard (not soft)
Directions:
1. Mix the flour and the brown sugar amounts from the muffin mix recipe in a large bowl. 2. Add baking powder; stir. 3. Add raspberries and apple. 4. Mix well. 5. Combine eggs, oil and buttermilk in a small bowl. 6. Add to raspberry mixture. 7. Stir until just moistened. 8. DO NOT OVERMIX! 9. Grease muffin tins with cooking spray and fill cups 3/4 full with the batter. 10. Time to assemble the struesel topping. 11. Combine flour and brown sugar in a small bowl (a different one than used earlier). 12. Add cinnamon; stir. 13. Cut in margarine until consistency of fine crumbs. 14. Sprinkle each muffin tin cup with struesel topping. 15. Bake in 375 degree F (190 degree C) oven for about 20 minutes until wooden toothpick inserted in centre of muffin comes out clean. 16. Let stand in pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool. 17. Serve warm or cold.
