Donut Muffins

I first had these "donut muffins" at a favorite little bakery/deli/shop of mine in Camden, Maine when Captain and I took our first Maine vacation together.  We camped at a cute little campground not to far from this store called The Market Basket.   Little muffins, coated in sugar and cinnamon, crunchy on the outside and deliciously moist and yummy on the inside.  How could this be?  A donut, but a muffin?! 

I whipped up a batch of these for our morning breakfast.  To make it easier on the boat, I pre-mix the dry ingredients at home and put them in a ziploc bag.  Mix up the wet on-board and bake in the cute little boat oven.  Working in the small boat galley really is no different than my house kitchen, well, maybe just a bit smaller.  It requires some pre-planning (bringing along all the ingredients) and a cool day to run the oven.  I'm not doing this when it's 90 and humid out.

 I finally found the recipe I had been looking for, it only took 12 years!  Enjoy.

Donut Muffins

1-¾ cup Flour

1-½ teaspoon Baking Powder
½ teaspoons Salt
½ teaspoons Nutmeg
½ teaspoons Cinnamon
⅓ cups Oil
¾ cups White Sugar
1 whole Egg
¾ cups Milk
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For The Topping:

1/2 cups Butter
2/3 cups White Sugar
2 Tablespoon Cinnamon

Preparation Instructions

Spray a 12 muffin tin with non-stick spray, such as Pam for baking. 

Combine flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon, in a medium size bowl.

Combine oil, sugar, egg and milk, in a large size bowl. Add dry ingredients to this mixture and stir only to combine.

Scoop batter out into a prepared muffin tin, dividing evenly among the 12 muffins cups, don't overfill.  This recipe makes 14 muffins.

Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Meanwhile, melt the butter in a bowl. Combine the white sugar with the cinnamon in another bowl.

Shake muffins out of muffin pan while still hot. Dip muffins in butter, then into the sugar/cinnamon mix. Let cool.

Thanks to Lemanda over on Tastykitchen.com I found my recipe, at long last!  http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/recipes/breads/muffins-that-taste-like-donuts/