Eggnog Muffins With Nutmeg-Streusel Topping

Submitted by Starrynews

"My mom passed on this recipe clipped from Midwest Living that she received from a friend. The original recipe recommends serving it warm, but we enjoyed them both warm and at room temperature."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 12 muffins

ingredients

• 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 cup eggnog
• 1⁄2 cup butter, melted and cooled
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄2 teaspoon rum extract

• Nutmeg-Streusel Topping

• 1⁄3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1⁄3 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons butter

directions

1. Prepare a muffin tin with paper liners or grease each cup.
2. Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, and nutmeg in one bowl.
3. In a second bowl, mix the eggs, eggnog, melted butter, vanilla, and rum extract.
4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Stir until combined and dough is just moistened.
5. Fill each cup 2/3 of the way full with the muffin batter.
6. Preheat oven to 375°F.
7. Prepare streusel topping by combining the flour, sugar, and nutmeg. Cut in the butter until coarse crumbs are formed.
8. Sprinkle each cup with streusel.
9. Bake 18-20 minutes, or until a pick comes out clean.

Reviews

[Katzen]

Absolutely lovely muffins, Starry! I did add a 3/4 tsp of cinnamon to the topping, and instead of rum extract, used Princess Cake Emulsion (my audience doesn't drink, and although my rum extract is non-alcoholic, I wasn't sure how the flavour would go over.) These are so pretty and moist! I honestly thought I was puttin on too much topping, but because of how they rise, it was perfect! Thanks for the great recipe! Made for Veggie Swap.

 

[*Huntergirl*]

My husband thought these were good. I thought they looked beautiful and had a great taste but a little on the dense side.

 

[GingerlyJ]

Perfect for a Christmas morning brunch!

 

[Kittencalrecipezazz]

A great muffin and recipe to use up leftover eggnog, the muffins turned out wonderful, I did have any rum extract so I increased the vanilla to 2 teaspoons, also I doubled the streusel amounts, thanks for sharing Starry!

 

[CoffeeB]

Another fabulous way to use egg-nog. This is the 2nd one of yours that I've used the nog. I'm so glad I came across this recipe Starry. I decided to make these into 3 mini-loaves for giftgiving purposes. So moist and delish!~ The eggnog and spices come thru wonderfully. I should mention that if you're making loaves, I'd 1/2 the struesel topping as I had enough for another 3 loaves:-) Made for HolidayTag~