prep time: 15-20 minutes | cook time: 15 minutes

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ingredients

makes 10-12 muffins

DRY INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups all-purpose flour (260 grams)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt

WET INGREDIENTS

• ½ cup milk (4 ounces)
• ⅔ cup maple syrup (7.5 ounces)
• ¼ cup butter, melted (2 ounces, or half a stick)
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

STREUSEL TOPPING

• ¼ cup all-purpose flour
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 Tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

prep

1. Mix the streusel topping – do this and let sit in fridge an hour or more ahead of time for optimal results (or even let it sit overnight). The colder it is, the better the crumb mix holds up in the oven. Mix until crumbs just begin to form – don’t overmix! Set in the fridge until you are ready to top the muffins.

get cooking

1. Preheat the oven to 425° F.
2. Melt butter in the microwave or over stovetop until just melted. Let cool down to room temperature.
3. Mix dry ingredients with a whisk so everything is well incorporated.
4. Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl.
5. Pour wet ingredients into dry and mix until the batter just comes together and the flour is fully mixed into the batter. Clumps in muffin batter are perfectly fine – we don’t want to overmix!
6. Divide evenly into a greased muffin tin (or with baking cups in it).
7. Take the streusel out of the fridge and top each muffin with it.
8. Bake for 10 minutes at 425° F, then reduce the oven temperature to 350° F and bake another 5 minutes (check that you can stick a fork into a muffin and cleanly remove it with no muffin crumb sticking to it).
9. Let cool 10 min, then DIG IN.