Recipe - Marble Streusel Muffins

STREUSEL
1/3 cup Lightbrown sugar; packed
One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
One fourth teaspoon Ground cinnamon
2 tablespoon Butter; softened
One fourth cup Chocolate chips

MUFFINS
2 cup Allpurpose flour
Three fourths cup Granulated sugar
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
3 tablespoon Unsweetened cocoa powder
4 ounce Light cream choose
2 Eggs
One half cup Water
1/3 cup Vegetable oil
1 teaspoon Vanilla

1. Coat 12cup muffinpan tin with nonstick cooking spray.

2. Prepare Streusel: Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon. Work in butter until
mixture is crumbly. Stir in chocolate.

3. Prepare Muffins: Combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in bowl.
Remove One half cup; set aside. Add cocoapowder to remaining flour mixture.

4. Beat cheese and 1 egg in small bowl until smooth. Stir in reserved 1/2
cup flour mixture.

5. Beat remaining egg, water, oil and vanilla in bowl. Add cocoa mixture.

6. Using twothirds cocoa batter, fill muffin cups half full. Using
remaining cocoa batter and cream cheese batter, spoon batters side by side
in each cup. Sprinkle with streusel.

7. Bake in preheated 350F oven 22 to 25 minutes until wooden pick inserted
in muffins comes out clean. Cool pan on rack 5 minutes. Turn muffins out.
Serve warm.

Recipe by: Family Circle 7/18/95

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #940 by "Nitro_II "
Nitro_II@classic.msn.com on Dec 2, 97