French Breakfast Puffs
A light and quick muffin from scratch with a scrumptious cinnamon sugar topping.
Equipment
- 12 cavity cupcake pan
- Hand mixer
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter or earth balance unsalted butter sticks
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 Egg or vegan egg, see notes
- 1 1/2 cups All-purpose flour or bobs red mill gluten-free baking flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup 2% milk or dairy-free/vegan alternative
Topping
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter melted or earth balance unsalted butter sticks
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° and line a 12 cavity cupcake pan with cupcake liners (or spray with pam) set aside.
- in a small bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg and lightly mix with a fork, set aside.
- In a large bowl with a hand mixer, cream shortening, and sugar. Beat in egg (or vegan egg) . Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk (batter will be thick).
- Fill the 12 cavities evenly then bake at 350° between 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean, don’t wait for the tops of your muffins to brown or you may wind up with a dry product.
- While the muffins are in the oven combine sugar and cinnamon and melt your remaining butter.
- When they are done, gently remove puffs from pans; quickly and carefully dip tops in butter, then in cinnamon-sugar. Best served warm but they are great either way!
Notes
I like to use half butter half margarine in my muffins, cakes, and most cookies.
How to make a flax egg, 1 tbsp ground flax meal and 3 tbsp water, let sit in your fridge for 15 minutes to set up and thicken.
If doubling the recipe switch tins on the racks halfway through for even baking.
**Tip** Be sure not to over mix or over bake, doing so will produce a dryer end product. To make sure you don't over bake as soon as a toothpick comes out clean take your puffs out of the oven. If you wait for the tops to slightly brown they will be very dry.
Best served warm but they taste great either way. They also microwave quite well.
Store in an alright container for 5 days.