Our Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffins are the ultimate cozy pastry recipe made with better for you ingredients. Featuring a blend of Lifeway Kefir and Lifeway Farmer Cheese, the batter comes together to create a light and fluffy cake that melts in your mouth. The cinnamon filling adds a spiced surprise, while the crumbly streusel topping provides a perfect contrast to the soft, tender interior. Bite into better breakfasts with these protein-packed muffins!
The Benefits of Cultured Dairy for Better Health:
Research continues to show the importance of eating healthy foods, including cultured dairy such as kefir, for better gut health, a strong immune system, and to support the microbiome. Fermented foods like kefir hold important value in this line of research due to the link between the gut-brain axis and overall health. Specifically, kefir has been shown to help diversify the microbiome, improve digestion, reduce inflammation, support healthier blood sugar levels, and improve satiety since the bioavailable protein it triggers the release of GLP-1.
Lifeway Kefir also contains a variety of nutrients that are vital for healthy bones and overall health: vitamin D3, K, calcium, and vitamin B12. Along with our kefir, we also offer our artisan-made Farmer Cheese, a creamy high-protein cheese made with live and active cultures to support a healthy microbiome that’s easy to spread and contains no added salt for optimal heart-health benefits.
Prep Time: 5-10 min Servings: 1-2Ingredients
Cinnamon Sugar Filling:
- 1/8 cup coconut sugar
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
Streusel Topping:
- 1/3 cup quick oats
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 cup Unsalted Kefir Butter
Muffin Batter:
- 2 cups gluten-free flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup additional kefir butter
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup Farmer Cheese
- 1/3 cup Organic Whole Milk Plain Kefir
Glaze:
- 4 tbsp. powdered sugar
- 1-2 tsp. Organic Plain Whole Milk Lifeway Kefir
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 375F. Line a 12-cavity muffin pan with muffin papers.
- Make the Cinnamon Sugar Filling by whisking the ingredient together. Set aside.
- Make the Streusel: Pulverize the oats, coconut sugar, cinnamon and butter together in a food processor to get a coarse crumb but without large lumps. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the ingredients for the muffin batter. Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium-sized bowl.
- In a separate large bowl, beat the kefir butter, coconut sugar, vanilla, and eggs until creamy and fluffy.
- With the mixer on a low speed, mix in about 1/2 of the muffin batter mixture from step 4 , followed by the Lifeway Farmer Cheese and the Lifeway Kefir.
- Beat in the rest of the muffin batter mixture to combine, then stop mixing as soon as the ingredients are combined. Be very careful not to over mix the batter.
- Spoon about 1/8 cup muffin batter into the bottom of each lined muffin tin.
- Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture on top of each muffin batter in the muffin tins, making sure to divide the mixture evenly between the 12 muffins.
- Spoon the rest of the muffin batter on top after covering the cinnamon sugar layer of all 12 muffins. The muffin cups should be 3/4 full at this point.
- Sprinkle the streusel on top of each muffin. You want the top of each muffin to be evenly covered with small crumbles.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 23-27 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove from the pan and continue cooling on a wire rack.
- For the glaze, whisk the powdered sugar with Lifeway Kefir until smooth. Whisk in a little extra kefir or powdered sugar as needed. It should be thin enough to drizzle, but still white in color.
- Drizzle the glaze onto the cooled muffins.
