- 12
- 20 mins
- 20 mins
Ingredients
- Muffins
- 1/2 cup Land O Lakes® Butter, melted, cooled slightly
- 1/2 cup Land O Lakes® Half & Half or Fat-Free Half & Half
- 2 Land O Lakes® All-Natural Eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract1
- 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt1/2 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- 1 cup finely chopped fresh strawberries
- Streusel
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 3 tablespoons sweetened flaked coconut
- 1 tablespoon Land O Lakes® Butter, melted
- Strawberry Butter
- 1/2 cup Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup finely chopped fresh strawberries
Preparation
Step 1
Heat oven to 400°F. Grease bottoms only of 12 muffin pan cups or line with paper baking cups; set aside.
Combine 1/2 cup melted butter, half & half, eggs and almond extract in large bowl; beat with whisk until smooth. Add 1 3/4 cups flour, 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder and salt; stir just until moistened. Gently stir in 1/2 cup coconut and 1 cup finely chopped strawberries. Spoon evenly into prepared muffin cups.
Combine all streusel ingredients in small bowl; mix well. Sprinkle over muffin batter.
Meanwhile, combine all strawberry butter ingredients in small bowl; beat at medium speed until well mixed. Serve with warm muffins.
Make strawberry butter mixture up to 2 days ahead. Cover; refrigerate. Before serving, let stand at room temperature 15 minutes to soften.
Variations
This is such a great recipe. I'd like to make them as "mini" muffins for an upcoming bridal "tea" shower along with the strawberry butter. I'll have to monitor the baking time for mini-muffin so they don't burn. I think our guests would love these.
Really tasty & easy to make; didn't make the strawberry butter. Great without. The coconut streusel is magnificent!
Made these yesterday -- very good! My only suggestion is to pay attention to the cooled melted butter when you add it to the half and half. Mine was still warmer than recommended and it made the melted butter lumpy! Also, I am going to try the streusel recipe with about 1/2 cup of oatmeal for more texture and adding 1/2 cup pecans to the batter.
Wow - were these ever good! My husband wasn't sure about strawberry and coconut, but he kept eating them and told me I could make more. My Mom liked them and wants to make them for company this weekend. We didn't bother with the strawberry butter and didn't miss it. These muffins are tender, sweet and very tasty.
I Would recomend useing a strawberry fruit spread (and forget any additional sugar) instead of chopped strawberries in the strawberry butter though.. It was very hard to combine the juicy strawberries with the butter. That might have worked better if I had had an electric mixer available though. I also tested using an egg slicer to chop the berries. Not recomended. the sclicer sort of squished the berry.
I also used the basic muffin recipe to make Lemon/almond poppy seed muffins . (lemon and almond extracts and 1 1/2 Tablespoons poppy seeds ) Got RAVE reviews for those too.
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