Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins
Servings: 9 muffins
Ingredients
- ½ cup milk
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil, (see notes)
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract, (see notes)
- 1 ⅔ cups self-rising flour
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup unsalted butter, melted
- ½ cup granulated sugar, for rolling
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon, for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F/180C.
- Liberally grease a muffin tin. Since this recipe makes 9 muffins, I only grease 9 of the holes in my tin. I like to use a canola oil cooking spray to grease my tins, but you can use regular oil or butter – whatever works best for you.
- Add the milk, vegetable oil, egg, and vanilla extract to a large mixing bowl. Give everything a vigorous whisk with a fork.
- In a separate bowl, measure out the flour, cinnamon, cardamom, and sugar. Loosely stir all of the ingredients together.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and, this is the important bit, stir with a wooden spoon only until the ingredients are just incorporated together. When you look at your batter, you should still see many lumpy bits of flour. This is exactly how you want it to look at this stage. Over mixing now will cause your muffins to be dry and hard.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin tin, filling the holes almost full. They will rise somewhat, but you don’t have to worry about them overflowing the tin.
- Bake on middle rack of oven for 20 minutes. Once baked, the muffins will be slightly golden on the bottom and sides.
- While you let the muffins cool for a few minutes, get on with melting the butter in a heatproof bowl in the microwave. Keep an eye on it so it doesn’t colour or burn. In a wide bowl, tip in some sugar and cinnamon and mix together.
- After the muffins have cooled for 10 minutes or so, remove them from the muffin tin and one by one, dunk them into the liquid butter and then directly into the cinnamon sugar. You want to make sure that the muffins are coated on all sides. Once the muffins are coated with the cinnamon sugar goodness, then tuck in!