These smooth and fluffy cinnamon muffins may be made standard-sized or mini! They’re topped with melted butter and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. They arrive collectively shortly with no mixer required! Recipe features a how-to video!
The BEST Cinnamon Muffins
This cinnamon muffin recipe has been a success in my household for years! We all the time made them as mini muffins (and known as them “cinni-mini-muffins”) and would devour an entire batch in minutes. Right this moment I’m sharing an up to date (simply the photographs!), full-sized model of this recipe, however you might be nonetheless welcome to make the mini, similar to we used to.
What’s To Love:
- Delicate & fluffy. Few issues in life are sadder than biting right into a freshly baked muffin and discovering it dense, dry, or crumbly. In at the moment’s submit I information you thru widespread pitfalls that result in such muffins, that manner you’ll be able to keep away from them and find yourself with a superbly melt-in-your-mouth crumb!
- Versatile. Make large, fluffy, standard-sized muffins, or make them poppable, lovable, miniature-sized (my private desire)!
- Flavorful. For such a easy muffin base and method, they’re not a boring muffin. The crumb is vibrantly flavored with buttermilk, vanilla, and cinnamon after which, whereas they’re nonetheless heat from the oven, they’re bathed in butter and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar
- Simple. No mixer wanted (severely, don’t use one) and whereas I stand by my two-temperature oven technique I take advantage of in recipes like my chocolate chip muffins and banana muffins, it’s merely not wanted right here, making for a simple and easy recipe.
What You Want
We’ll use only a handful of substances to make these cinnamon muffins, most of which needs to be in your pantry already. Let’s briefly go over just a few of the important thing substances earlier than diving in.
- Buttermilk. I really like utilizing buttermilk in baked items for tenderness and depth of taste. It’s a powerhouse that delivers unparallelled moisture and taste (and one of many secret substances I credit score to my ridiculously well-liked espresso cake and pancakes!) For those who don’t maintain buttermilk in your home, my buttermilk substitute will do the trick.
- Cornstarch. Cornstarch helps make these cinnamon muffins smooth and tender.
- Nutmeg. Whereas these are cinnamon muffins, I do like so as to add a contact of nutmeg. It’s very delicate, nevertheless it provides a bakery-style taste.
- Vanilla. A hefty splash of vanilla provides such a pleasant taste and enhances the spices so nicely. If in case you have some home made vanilla extract, it is a great spot to make use of it!
- Butter. I like to make use of unsalted butter within the muffins themselves (plus salt!) and salted butter within the cinnamon sugar topping. For those who solely have unsalted butter available, simply add a pinch of salt to your melted butter earlier than brushing it on the muffins. For those who solely have salted, scale back the salt within the muffin batter to ¼ teaspoon.
SAM’S TIP: Make your personal muffin liners! My parchment paper muffin liners are so easy to make and actually elevate the look of any recipe. Your cinnamon muffins will look bakery0worthy if you happen to use these!
Keep in mind, that is simply an outline of the substances I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the submit!
The best way to Make Cinnamon Muffins
- Whisk collectively the dry substances and sugar in a big bowl, then put aside.
- Whisk collectively the egg, vanilla, and buttermilk in a separate bowl or measuring cup, then slowly drizzle within the melted butter whereas mixing.
- Pour the moist substances into the dry, then gently stir till the batter is simply mixed. Do your entire stirring with a spatula and gently fold the substances collectively. Over-mixing is a sure-fire solution to find yourself with dense, dry, bland-tasting muffins (second solely to over-baking!). Be light and stir simply till the batter is mixed. The video within the recipe card features a visible, if that’s useful!
- Portion the batter right into a lined muffin tin, filling ¾ of the way in which full. Bake for 11-13 minutes at 375F (190C).
- Brush every muffin with melted butter whereas nonetheless heat, then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
SAM’S TIP FOR SOFT MUFFINS: Don’t over-bake! Over-baking these cinnamon muffins–even by a minute–may cause them to end up dry. To make sure that your muffins are performed, do the toothpick take a look at: insert a toothpick within the middle of a muffin, and if it comes out clear or with just a few moist crumbs, take them out! In case your toothpick nonetheless has moist batter, maintain baking and checking for doneness each minute or so.
Continuously Requested Questions
As touched on above, you’ve gotten two essential culprits in the case of dense, dry, or lackluster muffins.
Primary can be over-mixing the batter. Muffins, like different fast breads, want a mild hand when combining the moist and dry substances. Do NOT use a mixer for this step; as a substitute, stir the whole lot collectively by hand till simply mixed–then cease.
Quantity two can be over-baking. Even a bit too lengthy within the oven could make the muffins extra just like cornbread in texture!
Positive! I’d suggest including not more than 1 ½ cups of your favourite add-ins. Recent fruit, dried fruit, nuts (I really like toasted pecans!), or chocolate chips all work properly. Be aware that if you happen to do add them, I like to recommend doing so when your moist and dry substances are about 50% mixed. This helps to stop over-mixing.
For those who’d prefer to forgo the cinnamon sugar topping and use struesel as a substitute, merely put together a batch of my straightforward streusel, sprinkle it over the tops of the muffins earlier than baking, and bake! They might want an additional minute or so within the oven.
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Cinnamon Muffins
Servings: 12 muffins
Energy: 107kcal
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Directions
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Preheat oven to 375F (190C) and line a 12-count normal muffin tin or a 24-count mini muffin tin with paper liners or flippantly grease and flour.
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Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, cornstarch salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a big bowl and whisk till well-combined.
1 ½ cups (185 g) all function flour, ⅔ cup (135 g) sugar, 2 teaspoon baking powder, 2 teaspoon cornstarch, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon floor cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
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In a separate bowl, whisk collectively egg, vanilla, and buttermilk.
1 massive egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla, ½ cup (120 ml) buttermilk*
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Whereas nonetheless whisking the moist substances, slowly pour within the melted butter till integrated (combination might curdle barely, that is wonderful).
6 Tablespoons (85 g) unsalted butter
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Add the dry substances to moist and, utilizing a spatula, gently stir substances collectively till simply mixed — don’t over-mix or your muffins shall be dense and dry!
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Portion muffin batter into ready mini muffin tin, filling every liner ¾ of the way in which full.
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Switch to 375F (190C) oven and bake for 15-16 minutes (for 12 normal muffins) or 11-13 minutes (for mini muffins) and till a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out with moist crumbs (not moist batter, there needs to be crumbs or the toothpick needs to be clear, however do not over-bake muffins or they are going to be dry). Put together topping whereas muffins are nonetheless heat.
Topping
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Brush melted butter over every muffin whereas nonetheless heat.
4 Tablespoons (60 g) salted butter
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Stir collectively sugar and floor cinnamon after which sprinkle over every muffin.
4 Tablespoons sugar, 2 teaspoon floor cinnamon
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Serve heat and luxuriate in!
Notes
Buttermilk
For those who don’t have buttermilk, you should utilize my straightforward buttermilk substitute.
Storing
Retailer in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 3 days. Muffins might also be tightly wrapped and frozen for a number of months.
Vitamin
Serving: 1mini muffin | Energy: 107kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 1g | Fats: 5g | Saturated Fats: 3g | Trans Fats: 1g | Ldl cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 74mg | Potassium: 54mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 165IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 1mg
Dietary data relies on third-party calculations and needs to be thought-about an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will range based mostly upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking technique, portion sizes, and extra.
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