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Half a teaspoon ground cinnamon makes a cinnamon streusel topping or use other spices (like homemade pumpkin pie spice) to bring extra flavor.

Pictured are my blueberry buttermilk muffins.

A pinch of salt - to offset the sweetness.

This high ratio of fat helps inhibit gluten formation and keeps the streusel tender. It uses 3 tablespoons butter for ½ cup of flour. If choosing salted butter you can reduce the added salt in the recipe if you wish.

Butter - Use unsalted butter or salted butter.

Granulated sugar creates a crispier streusel, but a brown sugar streusel brings deeper flavor.

Sugar - Granulated white sugar or soft brown sugar.

Flour - Use all-purpose flour, pastry flour, or even whole wheat flour.

Here is a rundown of what you will use in this streusel recipe, with a little extra information

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The ingredientsįind the full recipe and ingredient amounts in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post. Just stir it enough until it makes crumbly clumps. When butter is melted, the water is released and you don't want this to be mixed excessively with the flour as this encourages gluten development. The one thing to note though is not to overmix it. Pour melted butter over the flour mixture and stir into the crumbly mix. Melted butter - This is the easiest way to make streusel as there is no cutting or rubbing of the butter involved. Room temperature butter is worked into the dry ingredients, but it creates softer pieces of streusel.

Room temperature butter - Similar to cold butter, but a little easier to work by hand. You'll need a pastry cutter or use your fingers to rub the cold butter into the flour. When it hits the hot oven, the water in the butter evaporates and creates a crunchy streusel. There are pros and cons to using butter in any of these forms.Ĭold butter - When cold butter is used, the flour in the streusel mixture coats the pieces of butter. Sometimes it's cold butter, sometimes room temperature, or as in this recipe, melted butter. The state of the butter takes differs in many streusel recipes. Use It for many baked goods, not just muffins! It's delicious on peach pie. However, the base of a classic streusel topping is butter, flour, and sugar. Some recipes add in other additions like spices, nuts, or even oats. This creates a really tender crumble, that melts in the mouth. It's similar to shortbread in the sense that it uses a high butter-to-flour ratio. It is a buttery crumb topping made of butter, flour, and sugar. Buttery streusel is made with a super simple recipe but it takes your baking to a new level.

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