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Healthy Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake Muffins

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Healthy Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake Muffins are fun for weekend breakfasts and make a lovely addition to a holiday brunch. These real food muffins are Paleo friendly and naturally sweetened with a delectable crumbly streusel topping and a sweet maple glaze.

Stacks of streusel coffee cake muffins with cinnamon sticks on the side.

It’s all about the cinnamon streusel and the maple glaze!

Heck yes these toppings are so delicious!

I mean really, who doesn’t love the toppings on coffee cake? They’re the best part! 

Stacked streusel coffee cake muffins with cinnamon sticks on the side.

I have always been a huge fan of the crumbly streusel topping on coffee cake.

I grew up with the kind of coffee cake that you get at mainstream grocery stores in a box (you know the kind I’m talking about).

My mom also used to take me to her favorite local coffee shop and I’d often get their coffee cake or carrot cake (yes, my mom, bless her heart, was cool like that and let me have carrot cake for breakfast).

Stacked streusel coffee cake muffins with a maple icing and cinnamon sticks on the side.

I miss my mom like crazy, always, every day. She was the best mom.

Holiday Christmas photo of mother and baby daughter.

The holidays remind me of her because she LOVED the holiday season. Christmas was SO important to her and she loved everything about it. We always had Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers’ Once Upon a Christmas album or George Winston’s December album on.

Christmas photo of toddler.

Decorating our Christmas tree was everything to her. She would tell me how the magic of Christmas was stripped away when she was a kid – that they only got to have the tree up for one day (because other family members didn’t like Christmas) and then it was taken down.

It really bothered her as a child and she told me that she would always make Christmas extra special for us. And she did.

Stacked streusel coffee cake muffins with maple glaze and cinnamon sticks.

Food-wise, the holiday season makes me think of homemade holiday cookies like chocolate crinkles and gingerbread, hot chocolate with marshmallows, the yellow Sherry cake my mom used to make and lots of cinnamon maple-y goodness.

Stacked streusel coffee cake muffins with maple glaze and cinnamon sticks on the side.

And treats for breakfast of course!

Coffee cake, pies, crisps, seasonal cakes, and muffins galore! Yes, it is that time of the year.

My fond love for these things probably comes from my mom since she loved them too.

That being said, I am not a fan of cane sugar (and don’t consume any) so I’m always looking for ways to recreate my favorites.

Stacked streusel coffee cake muffins with maple glaze and cinnamon sticks on the side.

These healthy cinnamon streusel coffee cake muffins are naturally sweetened and made with wholesome, real food ingredients! 

These delicious muffins are super easy to make and much healthier than sugar-laden versions.

They’re bursting with extra protein and nourishment from my favorite superfood boost – grass-fed collagen (my family has been using this brand exclusively, daily, for over 2 years – they are the only brand that tests for pesticide residue).

I only recommend using quality grass-fed collagen for these healthy cinnamon streusel coffee cake muffins. Knowing the source and where it comes from is very important to me.

Stacked streusel coffee cake muffins with maple glaze and cinnamon sticks on the side.

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I love using collagen in baked goods – like muffins because it helps add a lovely soft texture, plus you get a ton of nourishment from it.

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Stacked streusel coffee cake muffins with cinnamon sticks on the side.

Healthy Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake Muffins

Healthy Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake Muffins are fun for weekend breakfasts and make a lovely addition to a holiday brunch. These real food muffins are Paleo friendly and naturally sweetened with a delectable crumbly streusel topping and a sweet maple glaze. | Recipes to Nourish

Healthy Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake Muffins

Yield: 12 muffins
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Inactive Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 55 minutes

Healthy Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake Muffins are fun for weekend breakfasts and make a lovely addition to a holiday brunch. These real food muffins are Paleo friendly and naturally sweetened with a delectable crumbly streusel topping and a sweet maple glaze

Ingredients

Muffin Batter:

Streusel Topping:

Optional Maple Glaze:

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a muffin pan with muffins wrappers and set aside.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine the cassava flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and collagen. Stir to combine. Set aside.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, add the maple syrup, eggs, melted fat of choice, milk of choice and vanilla, gently whisking until the eggs are fully incorporated. Pour this mixture into the dry mix, using a wooden spoon or spatula to mix, just until combined.
  4. Evenly distribute the batter into lined muffin pan. Set aside.
  5. In a medium mixing bowl, add all of the streusel topping ingredients and using clean hands, mix until fully combined and crumbly. Evenly distribute this streusel topping over the tops of each muffin. 
  6. Bake for about 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with only a few moist cake crumbs. Allow the muffins to cool in the muffin pan for 15 minutes before carefully moving them to a cooling rack.

For the Optional Maple Glaze

  1. Add all of the glaze ingredients except for the water/milk, to a blender or small food processor. Pulse to combine until smooth and shiny - adding a small amount of water/milk only as needed (start with 1 tsp and only add ore if needed). When the muffins are fully cooled, you can drizzle the maple glaze over the tops of all of the muffins. 

Notes

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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 409Total Fat: 20gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 13gCholesterol: 57mgSodium: 305mgCarbohydrates: 50gFiber: 1gSugar: 30gProtein: 7g

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Cuisine: American / Category: Breakfast
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  4. That maple glaze though!!! Wow! I love those sweet memories with your precious momma – warms my heart. Your girls will remember all that you do for them so special during this season!

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  9. Christmas breakfasts are some of my favorite memories! Always sooooo delicious. ๐Ÿ™‚ It’s so sweet that you share these memories with your mom, Emily. Thank you for sharing them with us!

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  10. You had me at cinnamon streusel ๐Ÿ™‚ Toppings on a cake are super important to me, I love the different textures! These look beautiful. And your mom sounds like she made Christmas (and every day) so awesome for you!

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  15. Nothing speaks to my heart more than crumbly toppingon coffee cakes. This looks perfect – you’ve truly mastered it!

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  24. Hi, I loved reading your story about your mom so warming and heart felt. I donโ€™t know what went wrong but when I baked these they turned out like glue. They also bubbled over and dripped butter everywhere in my oven. I followed the recipe to a t. I noticed the batter was soupy as well when I put it in the muffin tin. Did anyone else have this happen?
    Sincerely, crumbled and glue coffeee cake muffins

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    • Hi Elana, I wish I knew what happened with yours but I’ve never had that problem with the batches I’ve baked. I’ve made these muffins many times and they’ve never turned out like glue or overflowed. The texture should be soft and tender. Did you use Otto’s cassava flour or a different brand? Otto’s is the only brand I recommend as other brands will produce different results. Did you add the collagen? What brand did you use?

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  25. Hi! I wanted to like these sooo much but they were sooo oily ( I used the avocado oil). Just touching them made my hands very very greasy! Iโ€™m guessing they would be fluffier and less โ€œheavyโ€ if I had used the butter? Or maybe I did something wrong? Thanks!

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    • Hi Pilar, they should not be oily like you explained at all. I usually make these with avocado oil and I’ve never had them be oily. Did you use Otto’s cassava flour – I don’t recommend any other brand. Did you use Perfect Supplements collagen – again, I don’t recommend any other brand. What brands did you use? These muffins should not be a super soft “moist” muffin like others are, these are more in the middle of that and a denser texture.

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