Sour Cream Coffee Cake muffins made with fresh cranberries. A small batch of sour cream coffee cake muffins is the best weekend breakfast I know!
We're heading into the last part of the year. The chilly part. The bake-all-day-to-keep-your-house-warm part. I love it.
Each month, I make a list of foods I want to eat to set the mood for the month. Sometimes, the list has exact foods, like Chai Cookie Bars. Other times, I write a general feeling that I want my meals to have, like 'hearty and comforting.' And then, I often consider your lovely self, and what foods you would like to eat this month, too.
For the month of December, I wrote: comfort food, cookies, and sweet breakfasts to share. Does that seem right to you? Are those the things you'd like to stuff in your face, too? While it's a sunny 55-degrees where I live right now, I think we all need warm, cozy dinners, cookies for dessert, and something sweet to lure us out of bed in the mornings.
A how-to video for making sour cream coffee cake muffins:
(Sometimes the video jumps to the side of the page, so check there if you don't see it).
You can use fresh blueberries like I did in the video, or any other fresh berries you like here. I use blueberries in the summer and cranberries in the fall, naturally.
We're starting here with sweet breakfasts to share. These cranberry streusel muffins made with sour cream were first on my list.
A few years ago, I made rhubarb cinnamon muffins from a Fine Cooking Magazine, and my eyes were opened to how lovely tangy fruit pairs with warm cinnamon. I love sweet and sour rhubarb, but I loved it even more when it was sprinkled with cinnamon. While we are months away from my beloved rhubarb (and my revered Rhubarb Crisp), we have cranberries!
I stirred cranberries into my sour cream coffee cake muffin batter, amped up the streusel topping (or is it called crumb topping?), and plopped it in muffin cups. The recipe makes 5 muffins. Two for me, two for you, and one for the dog, perhaps?
That's the way it goes in my house.
The muffin pan I typically is vintage, and I love it because it only has 6 cups! But, if you’re lacking your grandmother’s vintage small muffin pan like me, here’s a great substitute!
Also, you may substitute full-fat Greek yogurt for the sour cream, if you prefer.
Sour Cream Coffee Cake MuffinsSour Cream Coffee Cake Muffins
Ingredients
Streusel topping:
For the muffins:
Instructions
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
5
Serving Size:
1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 359Total Fat: 19gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 13gCholesterol: 56mgSodium: 130mgCarbohydrates: 44gFiber: 1gSugar: 28gProtein: 4g
Julie says
Cranberries are my absolute favorite fruit. I love, love, love them. I am going to the kitchen right now to make these. What a great way to start the day.
Cassie says
Love these! If my cranberries are frozen, should I defrost them first?
Christina Lane says
No, just use them as-is :)
Sues says
Beautiful muffins! I've been on a serious cranberry kick this year and i've been freezing so many that it's not going to end any time soon!
cookbook queen says
Comforting, sweet breakfasts. All the yes!! It's like a cozy hug in the morning. Love the pretty red berries in these -- so festive!!
Abby @ The Frosted Vegan says
I so agree! We live in an old, cold house and I always use baking as a good way to warm the house up :)
Trish says
These look scrumptious!
Is it sad though, that the thing that caught my eye the most was the beautiful pan that you baked these in? *goes off to hunt for the brand Ovenex? Or is it Ecko?
Christina Lane says
bahahaa, Trish. Totally not sad. Is it sad that I got up at 7am on a Saturday to find this pan at an estate sale? It's at least 40 years old, from what I can tell. I haven't seen new ones like it, but you could try an antique shop? :)
Shawnna says
Oh I would love these! Yummy!
Kit says
This recipe looks perfectly dreamy! I don't believe I'm going to wait for next month to roll around to make it, even if it is on your list for the next months eating pleasure!
yAy, YaY, YAY, Christina Lane, you are my doppelgänger! Except for the 32 years that separates us! (Give or take 2) I LOVE a great list, yet this is one that even I have yet to conjure up in all of my list making years!
I'm starting today!...with these wonderful muffins! Yes sir-eee! These are shooting right to the top of my list! Because I don't have a list for 'things I want to eat next next month' yet, remember? See how fun that sounds just saying it? I'm tickled just saying it!
Your brain is younger and full of fresher ideals! (Going on my list of why I love this blog!)
My whole life of raising 4 children depended on carefully organizing them by balancing orchestrated lists of menus, shopping, pedritician and allergist visits..who could eat what, (lots of food allergies before it was a 'thing'), even bath times and house cleanin were lists. Because I felt insecure about where my day was heading without several good lists!
I love to cook, yes I do! But I super-duper LOVE to bake. And eat what Comes out of my oven. Hence the need for your small bakes! Keeps me out of trouble... Almost. My husband does his part to help with that me with that part too.
Muffins! Making them, it's on my list! Your photography is wonderful, but not trickery! The recipes always stand up to the photos you tempt us with. Thank-you so much!
Christina Lane says
Thanks for such a sweet note, Kit :)
Medeja says
Such muffins would be so perfect with coffee! I love cranberry desserts!
Dani Mendocha | Styled Variety says
These look so yummy! Love the idea of coffee cake in muffin form :)