Cinnamon-Sugar Doughnut Muffins

This month, I've started to join Bake Along event again with the recipe: Cinnamon-Sugar Doughnut Muffins. Yeah, I able to squeeze some time to participate my entry again together with 3 lovely hostess from Free & Easy Bake Along event. They are Lena, Joyce and Zoe. Come, let's have a look over my doughnut muffins version.

Cinnamon-Sugar Doughnut Muffins adapted from The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook by Cheryl and Griffith Day.

Ingredients:

For the muffins

3 cups of all-purpose flour

¼ tsp baking soda

2 ½ tsp baking powder

¾ tsp salt

¼ tsp ground nutmeg

¼ tsp ground cinnamon

¾ cups plus 2 tbsp milk (I used fresh milk)

2 tbsp buttermilk1/2 cups butter, room temperature (I used plain yoghurt + 2 tbsp milk)

¾ cups sugar

2 eggs

1. Preheat the oven 180 degree Celsius. Lightly grease muffins trays.
2. Mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nutmeg powder and cinnamon.
3. Another bowl, combine the milk and buttermilk (mine was yoghurt mixture).
4. Used a mixer on medium speed, cream the butter. Turn the speed to low and gradually add in the sugar. Mix until mixture lightens in colour.
5. Add one egg at a time until it just combined. Add in the dry flour ingredients in 3 batches, alternating with the milk mixture. Mix until smooth and do not over mix.
6. With an ice cream scoop or spoon, scoop the batter into the prepared muffins trays, approximately 2/3 full. 
7. Bake for 20-25 minutes, until the tops are firm to the touch and lightly golden.

 Yield about 22 mini doughnut muffins...

For the coating:

½ cups butter, melted

1 cup sugar (I used icing sugar)

1 tbsp ground cinnamon

I've melted the butter in a slow fire earlier and let it set down for a while. After that I only take the clear part of the melted butter.

1. While the muffins bake, set up 2 bowls to dunk them in.
2. One bowl, you’ll need to have melted butter and in another bowl will have the cinnamon sugar.
3. Let the muffins cool completely on a wire rack. 
4. Dunk them in the melted butter, then coated them with the cinnamon sugar.

 My doughnut muffins doesn't look presentable at all, but the taste is wise. With cinnamon sugar coating on the outside is superb delicious. While inside, it has a very moist and soft texture like a cake. I had many good reviews from my colleagues despite of the look. One of them, quickly made a cuppa to enjoy the muffins. On the other hand, another friend mentioned that hers one was tad sweet. Oops, guess that was my first two muffins which dip too much of sugar. Hehehe...

When my baking mojo is back, I better don't stop. I will try to submit and join Bake Along event as frequent as it can be. Here I submit my cinnamon-sugar doughnut muffins to the hostess of Free and Easy Bake Along event.

• Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids
• Lena from Frozen Wings
• Joyce from Kitchen Flavours