Pineapple Muffins With Coconut And Brown Sugar Topping - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup chopped pecans
2/3 cup rolled oats
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup melted butter
1 egg
1 (15 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained well
1/2 cup sweetened flaked coconut
Topping
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup sweetened flaked coconut
2 tablespoons rolled oats
3 tablespoons cold butter, cut up

Preparation

Grease 18 muffin cups, or line with paper liners.
in a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, pecans and oats. Make a well in the center of the mixture.
In a separate bowl, whisk together buttermilk, melted butter and egg.
Pour into well in flour mixture, stir to blend just until dry ingredients are moistened, but do not overmix.
Gently fold in pineapple and coconut.
Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling about 2/3 full.
For topping:
mix together brown sugar, flour, coconut and oats. cut in butter with a pastry cutter till coarse crumbs have formed.
Sprinkle crumb topping over pineapple muffin batter.
Bake muffins at 400 for about 20 minutes, or till tops are lightly browned and firm.
transfer pans to rack to cool for about 5 minutes.
gently turn muffins out onto rack to cool completely.