Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 34 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 13 cups raspberries, fresh or frozen (thawed)
  • 12 cup grated apple, your choice
  • 3 large eggs, fork-beaten
  • 13 cup vegetable oil (canola can be used)
  • 13 cup buttermilk (or reconstituted from powder)
  • 13 cup all-purpose flour
  • 3 tablespoons brown sugar, packed
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 3 tablespoons margarine or 3 tablespoons butter, hard (not soft)

Method

  • Mix the flour and the brown sugar amounts from the muffin mix recipe in a large bowl.
  • Add baking powder; stir.
  • Add raspberries and apple.
  • Mix well.
  • Combine eggs, oil and buttermilk in a small bowl.
  • Add to raspberry mixture.
  • Stir until just moistened.
  • DO NOT OVERMIX!
  • Grease muffin tins with cooking spray and fill cups 3/4 full with the batter.
  • Time to assemble the struesel topping.
  • Combine flour and brown sugar in a small bowl (a different one than used earlier).
  • Add cinnamon; stir.
  • Cut in margarine until consistency of fine crumbs.
  • Sprinkle each muffin tin cup with struesel topping.
  • Bake in 375 degree F (190 degree C) oven for about 20 minutes until wooden toothpick inserted in centre of muffin comes out clean.
  • Let stand in pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool.
  • Serve warm or cold.