Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins are perfect for your next coffee break or a quick bite to satisfy your sweet tooth! Combining a donut and a muffin makes total sense to me! Try my Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls for another easy to make, delicious morning or anytime treat!
Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins
Would you like a donut or a muffin? Hmmmmm…such a hard decision! Well, I have figured it all out for those of you that can’t decide–how about a combination of the two? And, I could add that Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins have a hint of a mini-donut-like taste.
Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins Recipe
The base recipe for this muffin is simple and uses simple ingredients. It could stand on its own or you can add fruits to the batter. I do recommend all-purpose flour in this recipe as well as room temperature (or melted) dairy.
How to Store Muffins
There are a few ways to properly store muffins.
- Room Temperature: Because they are best enjoyed at room temperature, this is usually the recommended way to storing. I use a larger sealable plastic bag or an airtight container to store the muffins in a single layer. Some folks recommend adding a piece of paper towel to the bottom so that it will soak up any condensation. If your muffins are properly cooled before storing, this may not be necessary. However, if I am using an airtight container, I will often add a piece of bread to the container, torn in half, and fit in between the muffins. The bread will soak up moisture as well. Best enjoyed within 2-3 days.
- Refrigerator: (Refrigeration, in general, dries out baked goods faster so a typical muffin recipe shouldn’t be refrigerated.) Place in a sealable plastic bag or airtight container and then place into the refrigerator. They should keep for up to 5 days. To reheat, remove from refrigerator pop into the microwave for 10 seconds or just allow muffin to come to room temperature naturally, about 15 minutes.
- Freezer: Place cooled muffins into a freezer-safe sealable plastic bag or a freezer-safe airtight container and pack as closely as possible without crushing. Remove as much air as possible. Label with date and recipe name.
How to Reheat Frozen Muffins
Remove muffin from the freezer and allow to come to room temperature overnight in the refrigerator or on the counter for a couple of hours.
More Muffin Recipes
Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins
Ingredients
MUFFINS
- 2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups (300 g) granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 ¼ cups (309 g) whole milk
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
TOPPING
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- ¾ cup (150 g) granulated sugar,
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together milk, egg, melted butter, and vanilla.
- Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture and stir just until no big lumps remain. The batter will be a bit runny.
- Fill prepared muffin pan about ⅔ full of batter per spot. For mini muffins bake 12-14 minutes, for full-size muffins, bake 20-24 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let rest in pan for 5 minutes before placing the muffins on a rack to cool.
- Once cooled, combine sugar and cinnamon topping. Dip tops of muffins in the melted butter then roll the top in the cinnamon sugar to coat. Place back on the rack and repeat with remaining muffins.
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tried to find the pumpkin spice donut muffin and the apple donut muffin but it keeps saying
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My apologies! It is here: https://iambaker.net/pumpkin-spice-muffins/
Yummy recipe, easy and better than cinnamon toast! Love the new website and seeing recipe first, a step above other sites. My only comment in the redesign is – would love a picture of the recipe, like it shows before pressing the print button, then the picture disappears
Thanks, Laurie! Will work on that!
Everybody in my family loved these! Said they taste like a popular treat at one of our local coffee shops, Foxy Loxy (Savannah, GA)! Thank you for the recipe!
These are the French Breakfast Muffins from an early Betty Crocker Recipe book. My book was destroyed years and and I have been using another recipe instead. These are awesome.
In line 5 of your directions I noticed an error (Fill prepared pie tin cup). Some people might get confused about using pie tin cups. I’m sure it was a type-o.I really enjoy your recipes. I love the way you have them printed out. It makes it so easy to copy and print. Thank you for all the lovely recipes you share with us.
Oh goodness, I think you are right! I will change to “muffin pan”. Thanks for that!
I make these in my donut pans…just adjust the time for my new oven. We like the donut shape and I am finding more things to make in the donut pans LOL. Kids especially like the shape and have different sized pans and the donut hole pans, too.
Loved these! Thank you
Like your husband, this is a favorite recipe of mine! But I am writing to tell you how much I LOVE the changes you made to your page! LOVE the easy to find recipe now. LOVE that it automatically comes up “print friendly”. THANK YOU so much, Amanda!! You have great recipes that I love! Thank you for the new and improved site!
If you decide to put a picture back on the recipe, please give the option to print without the picture as many sites do; it saves a lot of ink. And it saves us from using an app to remove the picture before printing. I love the new recipe format that prints without a picture.
I could not believe my eyes, When at the 1st glance of your site i spotted your recipe for cinnamon sugar donut muffins, I have been thinking about them for a long time, My mom use to make them in the morning for me. My my recently passed away and i have been wishing i could find the recipe to make them, Just to smell them reminds me of my mom and they look and taste just like hers did, Thankyou, The memories or came back 🙏🏻😀