MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE EVERYBODY!!

For those of you that wanted one more idea for a Christmas recipe:

So these sweet crumbly muffins, I feel like they’re just the answer you need for all that eggnog you’ve probably got leftover in your fridge. I mean, if you share any of my enthusiasm for the holidays then maybe you’ll understand when I say how downright depressing it is for me to have eggnog around more than a few days after the season ends. Well, and if you aren’t a fan of nog in the first place then maybe you can at least try to imagine feeling that way. Like I said, it’s depressing. Oh, and I guess there’s the possibility that you like eggnog so much that there’s no way you’d ever have it leftover. In that case I bet you can catch a great discount now that the grocery stores will be clearing it out, or maybe you make it at home like I do so you can just whip up some more. Have you ever tried making it, it’s super easy? Here’s my recipe if you want to try it. I love doing it homemade because it’s usually the perfect way to use all my extra egg yolks leftover from making royal icing for my gingerbread each year.

The flavor vanilla bean compliments the eggnog perfectly and the topping is probably the best part! I’ve said before that muffins without some kind of topping are like less popular cousins of cupcakes and I stand firm in that opinion. There simply has to be streusel on top or no deal.

Okay, I hope you try them and if you do I’d love to know what you think. Have a great weekend guys!

RECIPE

Ingredients

Muffins:
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup oil (any neutrally flavored oil should be fine)
1 egg
1 cup eggnog
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 vanilla bean
1 1/4 cups flour

Streusel:
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1/2 cup granular sugar
1/2 cup flour
1 tablespoon eggnog
1 vanilla bean
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 C) and grease a 12-count muffin tin with oil (or line with paper cups if preferred).
2. Cream butter and sugar for streusel in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add the vanilla bean scrapings, nutmeg, salt, and flour and stir until combined into a crumbly mixture, then add the eggnog and mix until it comes together into a dough. Now scrape out the streusel into a separate bowl and set aside so you can reuse mixing bowl for muffin batter,
3. Mix the oil and sugar in the bowl. Add egg and eggnog and beat on low until combined. Mix in soda, baking powder, nutmeg, salt, vanilla extract, and vanilla bean scrapings. Mix in flour last until your batter is smooth.
4. Spoon batter into the slots in prepared pans and fill to the rim (you should get around 9 muffins). Crumble half of your streusel mixture and crumble it over the top of each muffin then place in oven for 10 to 12 minutes, then remove from oven and quickly crumble the rest of your streusel crumb over them, then rotate the pan and return to oven for another 10 to 12 minutes, or until tops are browned and a toothpick comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool for at least 5 minutes the loosen from pan and place on a cooling rack to finish cooling or devour while still warm.
5. Store in an air-tight container.

I realize that only a very few will read this, but for those of you who do, I wish you a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS.

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