These lovely muffins are great for holiday breakfasts like Easter, Mother's Day or Father's Day. They're filled with crushed pineapple, coconut, coconut extract and have a macadamia nut streusel topping and vanilla cream glaze. If you enjoy pineapple, these rich, decadent muffins will make you drool!
In a small mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients.
The mixture will be crumbly.
Set aside.
Preheat oven to 425°.
Spray muffin pans with Baker’s Joy or other nonstick cooking spray with flour.
Set aside.
MUFFINS:
In a medium bowl combine butter, sugars, eggs, yogurt, vanilla, coconut extract, baking soda, baking powder, salt and whipping cream and mix with an electric mixer until well combined.
Stir in flour, coconut and drained, crushed pineapple gently with a wooden spoon until ingredients are just moistened.
Don’t overmix the batter.
Spoon the muffin batter into prepared muffin tins all the way up to the top.
Crumble the crumb topping over each muffin and press the topping down gently into the muffins.
Bake for 5 minutes at 425°.
Adjust heat to 350° and bake for 15-19 more minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool about 10 minutes.
Add glaze.
GLAZE:
Whisk all of the ingredients together.
Allow muffins to cool about 10 minutes in muffin tins.
Remove muffins from baking tins and place on wire rack.
Place glaze mixture in a zip lock bag and cut off corner.
Drizzle glaze over muffins.
Notes
NOTE: Be sure to stir yogurt before adding to ingredients.NOTE: Milk will not bring the proper consistency in the glaze. Cream is preferred.NOTE: If using a zip lock bag to pipe icing, you'll need to find one that doesn't have an "easy fill" bottom. Those won't work.