Pecan Coffee Cake Muffins
Pecan Coffee Cake Muffins are 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.
These coffee cake muffins are easy to make and perfect to eat when you are craving a sweet treat.
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 I 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 it 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!
Why You’ll Love These Delicious Coffee Cake Muffins
- Quicker to make than coffee cake
- Perfect to satisfy sweet tooth
- A treat for any occasion
- Easy to customize
- Ready in 35 minutes
Ingredients
Muffin Ingredients
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Butter
- Sugar
- Egg
- Milk
- Vanilla extract
- Chopped pecans
Spice Mix Ingredients
- Brown sugar
- All-purpose flour
- Cinnamon
How to Make Pecan Coffee Cake Muffins
- Step One: Preheat the oven to 400F. In a large bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in the center.
- Step Two: 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.
- Step Three: Pour wet mixture into the well of the dry mixture. Add in pecans. Stir until just moistened.
- Step Four: To make spice mix, mix ingredients together in a bowl.
- Step Five: 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.
- Step Six: Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of a muffin.
Equipment Needed
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What to Serve with Best Coffee Cake Muffins
Variations
- Instead of pecans, substitute another type of nut such as walnuts.
- Add in chocolate chips if you would like to make them sweeter.
- Add cinnamon if you want to add extra spice flavor to the muffins.
Storage Instructions
Best Way to Store Leftover Pecan Coffee Cake Muffins
Store your Pecan Coffee Cake Muffins in an airtight container at room temperature or in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Can I Freeze?
Yes, you can freeze these coffee cake muffins for up to 3 months in a freezer bag.
When you are ready to eat them, thaw the muffins at room temperature for about 12 hours.
You can also microwave the muffins on high for 30 seconds or until defrosted if you don’t want to wait.
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Pecan Coffee Cake Muffins
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Ingredients
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ cup unsalted butter softened
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cup milk
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup pecans chopped
Spice Mix
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp all-purpose 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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These look and sound so yummy. I love anything with pecans. Pecans are kinda like bacon everything is better with them.
I saw the title of these and my mouth watered. Definitely going to give this a try, I love your posted recipes!
Mmmm….those look delicious. The icing was probably not needed anyway! I love pecan.
These look fabulous and sound so tasty! Pinned for later thank you so much.
These would be great with my morning coffee
My old man loves Pecans so this would be a great recipe for me to try. He always wants a pecan pie so maybe I’ll surprise him with Pecan muffins for breakfast. Thanks for sharing it with us.
these look fabulous thanks for sharing perfect with mornin coffee
Thanks for sharing the recipe…the muffins look yummy! I’ll have to pin this so I can try it later.
mmm these look delicious!
Definitely going to make these!
These muffins look soooo yummy
Yum, these look very good, have to try for sure, thanks.
Sounds yummy have to try these! Thanks
Those sound good. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
These look delicious! I might have to make them this weekend to go with coffee.
I’ll try replacing brown sugar with coconut sugar, should be good too, thanks!
These look amazingly yummy and I will be trying! 🙂
I really must make these sometime 🙂
This sound so yummy. Thanks for sharing I may have to make these for the kids.
I love pecans, my favorite nut. This is a great recipe for baking ahead on weekends for the week ahead.