I had a hard time deciding on a pecan recipe to make this week. At first, I was thinking of making pecan butter tarts, but then changed my mind and made pecan cake. However, my frosting did not turn out at all so that’s why I’m not including the recipe here today. It tasted good, but looked terrible. Then I figured I’d make some Pecan Coffee Cake Muffins since it’s not as easy to screw these up! Thankfully, they turned out beautifully. I might have given up on making a recipe this week for pecans since I wasn’t having much luck!
Did you know there is a National Pecan day coming up? In fact, there’s two dates that celebrates pecans: March 25th and April 14th. Not sure why! However, this week the Friday Recipe Club is featuring pecan recipes to gear up for the upcoming food holidays.
These Pecan Coffee Cake Muffins easy to make and perfect to eat when you are craving a sweet treat.
For more pecan recipes, check out these recipes for Maple Pecan Porridge, Pecan Chocolate Banana Bites, Chocolate Pecan Tarts, Easy Butter Tarts, Chocolate Pecan Turtle, Chocolate Jam Pecan Bars, Sinfully Good Southern Pecan Pie and Pecan Haystacks. You might also like this delicious coffee cake just like grandma used to make.
Pecan Coffee Cake Muffins
Much quicker to make than coffee cake! These pecan-packed muffins have the flavour of a coffee cake, but in handheld form – and in far less time.
Ingredients
- 1½ cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup milk
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup pecans, chopped
Spice Mix
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. In a large bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt. Make a well in the centre.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter, sugar and egg and beat on medium speed until blended. Add in the milk and vanilla and beat on medium until blended together.
- Pour wet mixture into the well of the dry mixture. Add in pecans. Stir until just moistened.
- To make spice mix, mix ingredients together in a bowl.
- Grease a muffin pan and add about a tsp of the batter to each muffin cup. Sprinkle a little of the spice mix on top. Then spoon the rest of the batter evenly over top of the muffins and top with the remainder of the spice mix.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the centre of a muffin.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 202Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 225mgCarbohydrates: 30gFiber: 1gSugar: 16gProtein: 3g
Gentle Joy says
These look really good! What a tasty treat. Thank you for sharing this. 🙂
Jen says
These look amazing! I need them in my life right about now. 🙂
Mishelle says
Oh these look wonderful!!! I think I am going to try them tomorrow!
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Noel Boardman says
I’ve been making these muffins for several years now and love them. Don’t need to change anything about the recipe! But I have two things to ask: 1.) Do you have an easier method for transferring the batter to each muffin hole? I use a 1 Tablespoon measuring spoon along with a scraper to push the batter from spoon to hole; this is pretty tedious and time consuming. But the batter is not thin enough to easily pour or to drop in. So you have any advice to make this step easier? 2.) When mixing the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients I feel nervous about leaving all the lumps of dry ingredients that still remain in the batter after recommended “stir until just moistened.” I feel compelled to mix more than I probably should to break up the lumps. Any advice about this? Many thanks for your recipe and advice. . . . Noel B.
Stacie says
Hi Noel,
I’m so glad you are enjoying the recipe! I use a cookie scoop to put the batter into the muffin tins. I find it a lot easier than scraping the spoon since you can pop out the batter easier with the scoop.
The reason to not overmix is so that the muffins don’t become overly chewy. I usually just leave it if there is a few lumps. You could try and break them up with a spoon without mixing the batter together.