Cream Cheese Crumble Muffins

Take creamy vanilla muffins and top with streusel crumble and you have our Cream Cheese Crumble Muffins. They’re a guaranteed winner for afternoon tea or as a sweet snack.
Serves: 12 muffins
Time: 1 hour

Ingredients
Muffins:

• 3 cups plain flour
• 1 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/3 tablespoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 2/3 cup whole milk
• 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
• 2 large eggs
• 225g cream cheese, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Streusel topping:

• 1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 4 tablespoons butter

Method
Preheat oven to 180°C  and prepare a muffin tray with paper liners. Combine the flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine the milk, apple sauce and 1 egg. In another bowl, combine the cream cheese, 3/4 cup sugar, the second egg and vanilla. Blend with a hand mixer until smooth.