Breakfast Muffins

So I have this new cookbook that was given to me by our dear friends as a wedding gift. It is called: ''The Pioneer Woman Cooks'', By: Ree Drummond. And ladies let me tell you, her book: ''The Pioneer Woman Cooks '' is so hard to put down and the recipes are SIMPLE & DELICIOUS! I highly recommend this book to be apart of your cookbook collection. If you are NOT a cook, she definitely makes cooking so much easier and fun. There are pictures for each recipe that are very descriptive so you don't get lost and there is always a story with each of the recipes, which makes it personable! (Great gift as well!)

Saturday night I was going through my baking pantry trying to decide what I could make for our Sunday brunch? My eyes went straight to the SUGAR and CINNAMON. Those two ingredients made me look back to my childhood when my parents would make me toast with Cinnamon Sugar, oh so tasty!

As I was contemplating what to make with those two ingredients I decided to pull out my new cookbook. As I was flipping through it I came across the French Breakfast Puffs and I was like.. SCORE! Found the perfect recipe and they looked delicious! 

Puff Ingredients

3 Cups All-Purpose flour

3 tsp baking powder 

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1 cup of sugar

2/3 cup of shortening

2 eggs

1 cup of moo

 

Coating

2 sticks of butter

1 1/2 cups of sugar

3 tsp of cinnamon and I put like a ton in there

 

1.
Preheat the oven @ 350 degrees and lightly grease your muffin pan (butter or shortening. make sure you get around the rims too.)

2. 

In a large bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, salt, and nut meg and set aside.

3.

In a mixing bowl (Your KitchenAid, if you have one) cream together the sugar and shortening.

4.

Add the eggs and mix again.

5.

Alternate mixing 1/3 of flour mixture and 1/3 of the milk to the creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.

By that time my kitchen counter looked like this:

Back to the recipe!

6.

Fill the muffin cups two-thirds full. 

7.

Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden. Remove the muffins from the pan and set aside.

When I got to this point I went ahead and pulled out a baking sheet and placed parchment paper on it. Then I carefully took the muffins out of the pan and placed them on there to cool for about 5 minutes.

 8.

To make the coating, melt the butter in a bowl or glass pan (I used two meatloaf pans) and then in the other bowl or glass pan mix your cinnamon and sugar together.

9.

You can either dip your muffins into the butter or do what I did, and that was use a pastry brush or what I call the ''Kitchen paint brush'' and coat the the muffins thoroughly.

10.

Then you coat your muffin in the Cinnamon and Sugar and don't be afraid to go back and coat it again and again :) (You can also can use Truvia as a substitute.)

11.

Make a cup of coffee, sit back and relax and enjoy your muffin!

12.

Thought you were finished? So did I until I walked back into the kitchen and saw all this mess in the sink. Thank you Jesus for a dishwasher and my little ''Sweeper'' Wisco, who cleans up all the little droppings on the floor!

The End.