Cinnamon Muffins – Sugar Spun Run

October 17, 2023

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These delicate and fluffy cinnamon muffins will be made standard-sized or mini! They’re topped with melted butter and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. They arrive collectively rapidly with no mixer required! Recipe features a how-to video!

Cinnamon muffins on a cooling rack with a teal towel underneath.

The BEST Cinnamon Muffins

This cinnamon muffin recipe has been a success in my household for years! We all the time made them as mini muffins (and known as them “cinni-mini-muffins”) and would devour an entire batch in minutes. At present I’m sharing an up to date (simply the photographs!), full-sized model of this recipe, however you’re nonetheless welcome to make the mini, similar to we used to.

What’s To Love:

Smooth & fluffy. Few issues in life are sadder than biting right into a freshly baked muffin and discovering it dense, dry, or crumbly. In right this moment’s put up I information you thru widespread pitfalls that result in such muffins, that means you’ll be able to keep away from them and find yourself with a fantastically melt-in-your-mouth crumb!
Versatile. Make huge, fluffy, standard-sized muffins, or make them poppable, cute, miniature-sized (my private desire)!
Flavorful. For such a easy muffin base and approach, they’re not a boring muffin. The crumb is vibrantly flavored with buttermilk, vanilla, and cinnamon after which, whereas they’re nonetheless heat from the oven, they’re bathed in butter and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar
Simple. No mixer wanted (critically, don’t use one) and whereas I stand by my two-temperature oven methodology I exploit in recipes like my chocolate chip muffins and banana muffins, it’s merely not wanted right here, making for a simple and easy recipe.

What You Want

We’ll use only a handful of components to make these cinnamon muffins, most of which ought to be in your pantry already. Let’s briefly go over a couple of of the important thing components earlier than diving in.

Buttermilk. I like utilizing buttermilk in baked items for tenderness and depth of taste. It’s a powerhouse that delivers unparallelled moisture and taste (and one of many secret components I credit score to my ridiculously well-liked espresso cake and pancakes!) Should you don’t hold buttermilk in your home, my buttermilk substitute will do the trick.
Cornstarch. Cornstarch helps make these cinnamon muffins delicate and tender.
Nutmeg. Whereas these are cinnamon muffins, I do like so as to add a contact of nutmeg. It’s very refined, nevertheless it provides a bakery-style taste.
Vanilla. A hefty splash of vanilla provides such a pleasant taste and enhances the spices so effectively. When you’ve got some selfmade vanilla extract, this can be a good spot to make use of it!
Butter. I like to make use of unsalted butter within the muffins themselves (plus salt!) and salted butter within the cinnamon sugar topping. Should you solely have unsalted butter available, simply add a pinch of salt to your melted butter earlier than brushing it on the muffins. Should you solely have salted, cut back the salt within the muffin batter to ¼ teaspoon.

SAM’S TIP: Make your personal muffin liners! My parchment paper muffin liners are so easy to make and actually elevate the look of any recipe. Your cinnamon muffins will look bakery0worthy in the event you use these!

Keep in mind, that is simply an outline of the components I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the put up!

How you can Make Cinnamon Muffins

Whisk collectively the dry components and sugar in a big bowl, then put aside.
Whisk collectively the egg, vanilla, and buttermilk in a separate bowl or measuring cup, then slowly drizzle within the melted butter whereas mixing.
Pour the moist components into the dry, then gently stir till the batter is simply mixed. Do all your stirring with a spatula and gently fold the components collectively. Over-mixing is a sure-fire solution to find yourself with dense, dry, bland-tasting muffins (second solely to over-baking!). Be mild and stir simply till the batter is mixed. The video within the recipe card features a visible, if that’s useful!
Portion the batter right into a lined muffin tin, filling ¾ of the best way full. Bake for 11-13 minutes at 375F (190C).
Brush every muffin with melted butter whereas nonetheless heat, then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

SAM’S TIP FOR SOFT MUFFINS: Don’t over-bake! Over-baking these cinnamon muffins–even by a minute–may cause them to end up dry. To make certain that your muffins are carried out, do the toothpick check: insert a toothpick within the heart of a muffin, and if it comes out clear or with a couple of moist crumbs, take them out! In case your toothpick nonetheless has moist batter, hold baking and checking for doneness each minute or so.

Continuously Requested Questions

How do I hold my cinnamon muffins from changing into too dense?

As touched on above, you may have two foremost culprits in terms of dense, dry, or lackluster muffins.
Primary could be over-mixing the batter. Muffins, like different fast breads, want a mild hand when combining the moist and dry components. Do NOT use a mixer for this step; as a substitute, stir every little thing collectively by hand till simply mixed–then cease.
Quantity two could be over-baking. Even a bit too lengthy within the oven could make the muffins extra just like cornbread in texture!

Can I add fruit or nuts?

Certain! I’d suggest including not more than 1 ½ cups of your favourite add-ins. Contemporary fruit, dried fruit, nuts (I like toasted pecans!), or chocolate chips all work properly. Observe that in the event you do add them, I like to recommend doing so when your moist and dry components are about 50% mixed. This helps to forestall over-mixing.

How do I make cinnamon muffins with streusel topping?

Should you’d prefer to forgo the cinnamon sugar topping and use struesel as a substitute, merely put together a batch of my simple streusel, sprinkle it over the tops of the muffins earlier than baking, and bake! They might want an additional minute or so within the oven.

Love cinnamon sugar? Attempt my snickerdoodle cake subsequent!

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