Doughnut Muffin Update

UPDATE:  I finally got around to making these, you guessed it, for Christmas!

For year my grandmother has been making doughnut muffins, and for years we have been asking for the recipe with no avail.  Recently my youngest sister stayed with Nana for a few days and managed to get the recipe.  I vow not to with hold the recipe any longer.

Doughnut Muffins

*Makes 8 muffins

1 1/2 Tablespoons butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup milk

Topping
1/2 stick butter melted
1 teaspoon cinnamon mixed into 1/3 cup sugar

Cream butter and sugar.  Add egg.  Beat well.  Mix dry ingredients together and add alternately with milk to first mixture.  (It turns out more like a dough than a batter.)  

Bake in greased muffin tins in 400 degree oven for 20 minutes.  A cookie scoop works really well to get the batter into the muffin tins since it does not pour easily.

Can be used plain, or while still warm, dip muffin in melted butter and then in cinnamon/sugar mixture.  In my opinion, the only way to have these is with the topping.  I would highly suggest dumping them out of the tin to let them cool just a bit, so you can handle them, before dipping in the butter and sugar.


The family LOVES these muffins, and we typically only get them at Christmas.  This week, Nana told me she would make some to bring down in October!  Super excited about that!  (Experienced slight disappointment in October when Nana came to see baby James with no muffins, but with all the excitement around, I got over it pretty quick.)