This easy recipe for cinnamon butter muffins is like the love child of cinnamon toast and a sweet buttery muffin. The perfect brunch or teatime treat!
I can’t believe that after all the shopping/wrapping/baking/general racing around that Christmas is actually OVER. So in order to stretch it out just a little bit longer, let me tell you about one of our Christmas morning traditions…along with a suggestion for one of yours.
One of our longest-standing Christmas morning traditions is cinnamon rolls baked after the initial round of present-tearing-open is over.
I’m not talking homemade cinnamon rolls like my mom makes…I’m talking the ones that come in the tube with the little cup of white sugar frosting at the end.
This easy recipe for cinnamon butter muffins is like the love child of cinnamon toast and a sweet buttery muffin. The perfect brunch or teatime treat! I’m not sure how this started, but the time or two I have tried to deviate from the tube, there has been shock on the upturned faces gathered around my Christmas tree. So for me, it’s forever going to be Christmas morning with the Pillsbury Dough Boy…but maybe there is still hope for YOU?
If so, you might want to consider making these delectable cinnamon butter muffins. They are quick and easy and you probably have everything you need to make them somewhere in your kitchen…no last minute trips to the supermarket.
Keep those holidays going…and don’t worry too much about me and these muffins. I’ll be making them at some point during the holiday festivities!
Cinnamon Butter Muffins
This easy recipe for cinnamon butter muffins is like the love child of cinnamon toast and a sweet buttery muffin. The perfect brunch or teatime treat!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 12 servings
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 6 tablespoons shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 cup milk
- 3 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup butter, melted
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 12 opening muffin tin.
- Cream 6 tablespoons butter, shortening and 1 cup of sugar together.
- Beat in the eggs and nutmeg.
- Whisk the flour and baking powder in a separate bowl. Stir in flour alternately with milk into the butter mixture until the everything is just combined.
- Fill muffin tins 3/4 full and bake for 20-25 minutes.
- Combine remaining sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.
- When the muffins are done, cool for 5 minutes and then transfer them to a cooling rack.
- Dunk the top of each muffin in the melted butter and then roll in cinnamon sugar. (You can also do this with the whole muffin if you are feeling especially cinnamon sugary.)
- Make sure you eat the first one warm. It will make everything right with the world.
Karen Nelson says
Gonna hang on to this one, as they sound so yummy…
I had to laugh.. out traditional Christmas morning treat.. pillsbury orange rolls!
Great minds think alike! :)
Priya Chokroborty says
lovely post thank you maam
Sourav says
Nice recipes .. keep it up ? ?
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I don't know what to do first, this delicious recipe or the last I read, everytime that I visit you blog I end so hungry, the next time I gonna tell my wife to read together and prepare something of the menu.
likestocook says
These look delicious. So far I have tried the brittle and cinnamon bun bread that you have on this site. Now I want to try these because I love cinnamon and sugar.
Aunt Ginny says
Oh lord Kate. Just tell me to eat a stick of butter and swallow it down with a cup of sugar. My mid section would reallllly appreciate that.
Lura says
Just had to share that our Christmas morning tradition is cinnamon rolls from a can too. My mom started it (although in her defense she made them into a Christmas tree shape and put red and green sprinkles on top) and I have been happy to continue it. I even called her on Christmas morning to thank her for giving me such an easy tradition to carry on! :)
Memória says
Yum! These look like the apple breakfast puffs I made a while ago. I love your photos.