Christmas Morning Muffins
Dustin's Christmas Morning Cinnamon Muffinsfrom a cozy mystery novel: Death by a Yule Log by Lee Hollis
Ingredients
Muffin dough
- 1½ cups flour
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp allspice
- 1 egg, beaten
- ½ cup milk
- ⅓ cup butter, melted
For the topping
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar (or regular sugar if that's your preference)
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup melted butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Mix your flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, allspice, and nutmeg.
- Add the egg and butter and milk into the flour mixture and stir just until moistened.
- Divide into a greased or paper-lined muffin tin or use silicone baking cups.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- While muffins are baking, combine your remaining cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl and set aside.
- Melt the butter in a small saucepan.
- Remove the finished muffins from the oven and brush the tops of the muffins with the melted butter, then roll the tops in the cinnamon/sugar mixture.
- Place them on a pretty Christmas platter, then just sit back and watch them be gobbled up in a matter of seconds.