Description
Easy and fluffy cranberry orange muffins recipe. These muffins are made with fresh cranberries, oranges, and whole wheat flour, then sprinkled with streusel topping before baking.
Ingredients
Scale
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 eggs, beaten
3/4 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup orange juice
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 Tbsp butter, melted
1 cup chopped fresh cranberries
1 tsp orange zest
Optional: 4 Tbsp streusel topping
For the Streusel Topping
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar (white or brown)
2 Tbsp cold butter
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400F
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flours, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In another large mixing bowl, combine eggs, yogurt, orange juice, buttermilk, and butter. Whisk to combine well.
- Add wet ingredients slowly to dry ingredients, gently mixing to combine.
- Fold in cranberries and zest.
- Optional: Sprinkle 1 tsp streusel topping over the batter in each filled muffin cup. To make streusel topping, combine butter, sugar, flour and cinnamon in a bowl, then using a pastry cutter or your fingers combine until crumbly.
- Grease or spray 12 muffin cups, and divide batter evenly between the 12 cups. Cups should be about 1/2to 2/3full.
- Bake in preheated 400F oven for 15-18 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center of muffins comes out clean.
- Cool in muffin cups for about 5 minutes before removing muffins to cool completely on wire cooling rack.