I have a confession to make. Before I do, please promise me that you won’t shun me. Are you ready?
My children eat cold cereal for breakfast every morning. No, I mean EVERY morning. And they aren’t eating the healthy shredded wheat crap either. They eat the Lucky Charms and Frosted Flakes and Sugar Filled Sugar Lumps kind of cereal.
Go ahead, say it with me: Bad mom!
I can’t help it. They like instat oatmeal, but it has more sugar than most of the cereal they eat. They like bacon but that’s not exactly a health food. They love fruit, but not for breakfast. They won’t eat eggs unless they’re in cookie batter.
I’m pretty much okay with it, but sometimes I want to eat breakfast myself and I really don’t do cereal. I like cinnamon rolls and french toast and chocolate donuts and, wait a minute! I think I see where they learned their poor breakfast habits!
Let’s just move on from my bad examples and I’ll show you the sugar donut muffins I baked up for breakfast the other day. You’re gonna love these. They taste just like a cake donut, but they are baked in muffin tins. After they bake you pop them out of the muffin tin, dunk ‘em in melted butter and then roll ‘em around in a cinnamon and sugar mixture. They were so delicious warm, but the next morning? They were like little bites of heaven. The butter had really soaked in and the flavor was much more pronounced. Oh my. You’re really going to need to try these, both because they are delicious and because they are ridiculously simple.
Sugar Donut Muffins
yield: 24 mini-muffins or 12 regular muffins
Recipe from Baking Bites
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking power
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup milk (low fat is fine)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons melted butter, for dipping
- 1/2 cup sugar, for rolling
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon, for rolling
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and grease muffin tin with cooking spray. In a large bowl beat together sugar and egg until light and fluffy. In small bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg. Pour into sugar/egg mixture and stir until well combined. Add in vegetable oil, milk, and vanilla extract. Mix well. Pour into muffin tins, filling each about 3/4 full. Bake for about 15 minutes until tester comes out clean.
Melt the butter in a small bowl in the microwave. Stir together sugar and cinnamon in another small bowl. When the muffins are done allow to cool for a few minutes, until you are able to handle them easily. Dunk the tops of the muffins in the melted butter and then the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
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August 26th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I think you want to make sure I stay chubby.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Loving these! I am going to have to try them out one of these days!
Thanks for the recipe!
August 26th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Any chance they taste just as delicious without the nutmeg?
August 26th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Nancy,
The nutmeg probably does make them a bit tastier, but I wouldn’t hesitate to make them if I was out. I’d probably substitute either cinnamon, mace, or ginger in place of it, just to give it a little spice.
Karly
August 26th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
These look amazing! I love the spices and the sugar!
August 26th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Oh, sweet mother of God, I love you. I love you more than I love my husband right now.
August 26th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
This recipe couldn’t have come at a better time. My grandparents are staying with us for a few weeks and my grandfather’s must have treat is a plain cake donut. It seems that the bakeries around here only sell cake donuts with glaze, frosting, etc. on them. I will make these and leave half plain for him but do the cinnamon sugar for the rest of us.
Yumm, thank you!
August 26th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
These sound great! I definitely will be trying them next time I get a donut craving.
August 26th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
*scratches head* I don’t understand how children eating cold cereal is a bad thing. Well, anyway, your muffins look delicious! I would love some!
August 26th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
aww these are so incredible cute!!
August 26th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Mmmm…those look delicious. They do look like donuts in muffin form.
August 26th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
My kids love these when I make them without the nutmeg.
August 27th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Wow, these look fantastic! I love the little cinnamom sugar donut holes from Dunkin Donuts! You know, these would probably be good if you left out any spice and piped jelly in the middle, then rolled them in just sugar. I think when I make these for my co-workers, I will make half cinnamon sugar and half jelly filled! They’d love them!
August 27th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Oh…I think I need a moment….and I think this is what we will be having for breakfast in my house tomorrow.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:47 am
How can you make me so hungry?! Those look so delicious.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
soooo yummy. I am going to have to make these
August 27th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I just read this recipe with my mouth hanging open. I’ve never done that before, so I thought I’d share.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
omg…i used to make these in highschool cooking class, only the teacher called them “french breakfast puffs”…..i had forgotton how good they are…i looked up my old recipe in the file when i saw this and it is the same….I havent thought of them in years…im DEFINATELY going to make them!
August 27th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I love muffins, and I love donuts! I will definitely try these out. They sound wonderful. A person can never, ever have too many muffin recipes.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:56 am
oh these are adorable and a perfect combination of 2 of my favourite sweets. yum yum. the rounded tops are real cute too.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:54 am
You’ve got some amazing pictures on your blog! Love the donuts.
August 29th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
I made a batch of these yesterday and my boys ate them all so I made another batch this morning. Needless to say, these are a hit around here. Thanks for sharing this yummy recipe!
August 30th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Wow, those look delicious!
September 1st, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Krispies, yeah that’s what our kids eat for breakfast!!! LOL!! I’ve made these babies, I know how good they are!!!
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Those look so good!
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September 5th, 2009 at 6:34 am
my kids eat all those unhealthy cereals too!! AND bacon! AND instant oatmeal. yay, i’m so glad i’m not the only horrible mother!!
btw…trying these muffins this morning!! they look droolingly delish and my kids would love them!
September 5th, 2009 at 11:35 am
I just made these for breakfast and OH MY GOD, they are the BEST muffins I’ve ever had in my life. I made regular muffin sized, and they were perfect at fifteen minutes exactly. You are the current #1 hero in my (picky picky) household! Next time I might try subbing applesauce for the vegetable oil. Thanks for posting this! Now I’m going to dig through all of your archives and see what else I can add to my thighs…
September 8th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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September 16th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
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September 28th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
this is a great idea! i love doughnuts.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:49 am
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October 3rd, 2009 at 5:50 am
I’ve dreamed about these. Yummy.
November 14th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Making these tomorrow! I’m going to use coriander instead of nutmeg since that’s the classical donut taste imo. (And I don’t particularly like nutmeg.) And regular size muffin pans because I don’t have a mini but boy, the mini muffins look so cute that I now need a mini muffin pan!
December 28th, 2009 at 1:56 am
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January 17th, 2010 at 6:17 am
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February 22nd, 2010 at 11:54 am
I just stumbled across your blog today and am loving everything on here! Is the baking time the same for the mini muffins?
Thanks!