by Lindsay Weiss posted in Life & Home

Irony (n): When you make these delicious muffins for breakfast tomorrow and your family eats them all for dinner.
I walked in the door from at meeting at 5:30 yesterday and had to snatch these muffins off dinner plates so I could get a photo of them.
Well, they smelled so good!

They were just sitting there"

What else were we supposed to eat"

My husband was an accomplice as he cooked up some scrambled eggs to go with them. So, at 7 a.m. this morning I was back in my breakfast rut because, again, all the breakfast was gone. Grrr.
Hopefully, you'll be luckier than I. Ahem. Or you'll hide your muffins more carefully.
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Cherry Streusel Muffins
Since fresh cherries are non-existent in my neck of the woods, I used frozen. These work perfectly but you can't thaw them first. Add them to the batter frozen so they don't streak it all up and turn it pink. If your frozen cherries are huge like mine were, split them with a sharp knife.
3 large eggs

1 1/2 cup milk

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

3 cups all purpose flour

1 cup granulated white sugar

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

pinch of salt

pinch teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)

1/2 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into small chunks

2 cups pitted fresh or frozen cherries (if using frozen, do not thaw)

1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest

2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Preheat the ov...