French Breakfast Muffins

French Breakfast Muffins

Eat these warm – when warm, these French Breakfast Muffins pretty much just melt in your mouth and it’s heavenly. You will have leftover melted butter and cinnamon sugar but FEAR NOT! Just tear off little pieces of muffin, dip in butter, then in cinnamon sugar, place in mouth and then think “Thank you”!

French Breakfast Muffins

Ingredients :

1/3 c. butter, melted
1/2 c. sugar
1 egg (preferably room temperature)
1 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 c. milk

Topping (option: cut topping in half*)

1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter, melted
1 tsp. cinnamon

Directions :

Preheat oven to 350F.
In a medium-large bowl, sift together all dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients and stir just until combined, but still a bit lumpy. Do NOT overmix; overmixing will ruin the texture of the finished muffins. Also? Don't overmix the batter. Finally, don't overmix. Scoop batter into muffin tins that have sprayed with cooking spray. Using a large ice cream scoop, I got 8 medium-large muffins out of this batter; I think you could get 10-12 muffins by distributing the batter a little less generously. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until they just start to turn a bit golden at the edges.
For the topping, mix sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Place melted butter in another small bowl. Dip the warm muffins in melted butter (you can dip just the top, but it's even tastier to dip the whole muffin!), then dip/roll the muffin in cinnamon sugar. *May have left-over topping; the extra topping can be used for dipping, while eating the muffins (oh my). Another option is to cut the topping ingredients in half.

Prep Time:15 minutes-

Cook Time:25 minutes

Yield:8 Large Muffins

Calories per serving: 370 kcal Fat per serving: 20 g Saturated fat per serving: 13 g

Carbs per serving: 44 g Protein per serving: 4 g Fiber per serving: 1 g Sugar per serving: 26 g

Sodium per serving: 219 mg Trans fat per serving: 1 g Cholesterol per serving: 72 mg

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