Pretzel Muffins with Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 400 F. Line a 12-cup standard size muffin pan with liners. Set aside.

For the streusel: In a medium sized bowl combine flour, sugar, ground and broken pretzels and cinnamon. Stir butter into the dry mixture, cover and chill.

For the muffins: Whisk flour, pretzels, chocolate chips, baking powder, salt and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Set aside.

In a small bowl, whisk milk and sugar until the sugar dissolves. Add eggs, oil, butter and vanilla; stir until combined. Then stir this into the flour mixture. Let the batter sit for 2 minutes, then divide among muffins cups.

Squeeze streusel into small clumps and top muffins with it. Then sprinkle with coarse salt.

Bake muffins until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, 17 to 19 minutes. Remove pan from oven and set it on a rack. Let muffins cool in pan for 10 minutes.

Recipe adapted from Cuisine at home, October 2013.