I love virtual baking sessions. You get together with people from all walks of life and all over the world. We share recipes, tips and results. Helping each other out and troubleshooting to perfect our efforts. And yes, beyond muffin talk, we do exchange a lot of other … talk … too but um, that can’t be shared.
What makes Muffin Monday special are the people who bake along with me week on week not only spreading joy, but also making it a fun, successful, virtual experiment. There is so much behind-the-scenes excitement, it’s hard to describe. Three cheers and big thank you to all those lovely bakers who support Muffin Monday unconditionally!
We’re entering our 9th week of Muffin Monday today. After the first two editions, I took a moment to consider the level of commitment and questioned whether all the effort was worth it. Blogging is supposed to be fun, right? Not additional pressure to all our already stressful lives. But as I said, every one who participates, helps make it easy, fun, and worth every moment!
We are baking one of the simplest muffins today, the Doughnut Muffin. As the name suggests, yes, it’s the best of two worlds. The pure joy waking up in the morning to a sweet and simple muffin that has been freshly dunked in butter and rolled in sugar and cinnamon is incomparable.
| Muffin Monday: Doughnut Muffins |
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For The Muffin:
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup milk
- Jam
For The Topping:
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon. In a small bowl, combine sugar, oil, egg and milk; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
- Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups half full; place 1 teaspoon jam on top. Cover jam with enough batter to fill muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Place melted butter in a small bowl; combine sugar and cinnamon in another bowl. Immediately after removing muffins from the oven, dip tops in butter, then in cinnamon-sugar. Serve warm.
Muffin Monday: Round Up
On this Magical Monday we have for the very first time 13 bakers joining us. [See. I told you the people make it happen.]
Aimee | Food Je t'Aimee
Alan | Cook'ed With Luv
Annapet | The Daily Palette
Alex | Yums and Loves
Elena | 3 Green Onions
Elizabeth | Asian in America
Jasmin | Cook That Book
Kristen | Mind Your Bees and Trees
Nastassia | Let Me Eat Cake
Yuri | Chef Pandita
Xai | Xai Eats A Lot
Terra | Cafe Terra
Caroline | When Adobo Met Feijoda
Happy Baking!
ahhh i love the doughnut muffins! they are so cute and i’m sure they are the perfect breakfast to wake up for! yay for #muffinmonday :D
Hi An, another beautiful Monday has rolled in. Thanks for the kind support, encouragement and help. It’s such a pleasure to bake alongside with you and the rest of the fun bunch of Bakers ! Let’s keep rocking till the next Monday comes along…
What a lovely post :) I’m thinking we might need a Muffin Monday conference at some point in the future…we’ve got such a great and close knit community of bloggers!
Muffin Monday is so much fun! I see the roundups are getting bigger every week, you might need to hire help soon… Thank you for doing this and letting us bake with you. I promise to send you my photo on time next week. Pinky swear :)
It’s 12:47 a.m. and I’m just about to head off to bed. Saw your post in my reader and once I clicked on it I knew that I should have waited until morning. They look delicious, each and every one of them. I’m craving a handful of these now. Guess I’ll settle for a handful of peanut butter M&M’s before hitting the pillow!
Thanks for another great recipe and a fun one to boot! It’s been a great baking with you and glad to see the group growing. Hurray for #muffinmonday :)
I havent heard of these muffins before..but these sound the most delish I have seen lately! I m crazy about doughnuts – what a lovely marriage of flavors!
I enjoyed making these with all of you:) So glad to be a part of Muffin Monday and learning so much! Have a great week everyone!
It was such a pleasure to be part of this project! It’s a wonderful way to celebrate the start of a new week. Happy Monday, everyone!
Love it! Great muffin Monday round-up!
Seriously? Doughnut Muffins?!? Swoon. Faint. Thump!
9th week… simply awesome… you guys are. Shows your commitment and passion. The dough nut muffins look lovely
Happy India Indiependepnce Day Girlie, signed, Mommy
The doughnut muffins look so luscious tempting me first thing in the morning with my cup of coffee, k send some express as I am brewing my second cup soon.
Thanks Shulie! Big basket of muffins coming right up. Pour me a cup too!
Heelo An,
Im sorry to miss this week’s Muffin Monday again. It’s crunch time for us since my son is leaving for college tomorrow… hopefully next week when everything settles down to normalcy i would love to join you again.
For now, lemme enjoy your posts and feast my eyes on these muffins! happy muffin monday!
Yum! These were great muffins. Thanks for letting me take part! :-)
What’s funny is I thought you had been doing this for a very long time… You came up with this clever idea 9 weeks ago and look at all these fab folks baking with you! I’m totally a Muffin Monday fan. So cool. XO
thanks so much for letting me join! first muffin monday was a blast! and my fave part about this muffin… dunked in butter mmm!
I adore the cinnamony sugary goodness of doughnut muffins and these, my friend, look absolutely perfect to me.
Donut muffins?! I’ve never heard of such a thing. But how delectable they sound. :-)
Donut muffins!!? What an awesome idea!! Wish I came across these earlier!!
12 bakers this week–WOW! I’m so excited it’s starting to take off. Thanks for working so hard to host this every week. It’s always so much fun :).
Look at you and your adorable pics! These donuts were so fun, and versatile this week:-)
Love muffin Monday:-)
Hugs, Terra
Your donut muffins look amazing! I will have to try these out.