What is the secret to moist muffins?

How to Make Homemade Muffins Moist: Our Top Tips Tips to Make Homemade Muffins Moist. Keep Wet and Dry Ingredients Separately. Add All Flavorings Last. Consider Paper Liners. Don't Overfill the Muffin Cups. Check the Temperature of Your Oven. Test if Muffins Are Fully Cooked. Top Your Muffins with Flavor. More items... Aug 9, 2021

What is the secret to high muffins?

Chilling your muffin batter overnight in the fridge is the BEST thing you can do for amazing muffins. It makes them more moist, tender, and TALLER! It's very similar to chilling cookie dough, which if you know me you know I'm obsessed with chilling cookie dough.

Why are Bakery muffins so much better?

The best bakery-style crumb muffins start with cake flour Cake flour is more finely ground and has less protein, which leaves the muffins with a fine, light crumb and soft texture . Using cake flour is an easy way to avoid heavy, dense muffins even if you end up stirring just a bit too much.

What not to do when making muffins?

Overmixing the batter . When you overmix the batter, it crushes the air bubbles and ruins the fluffy texture. → Follow this tip: To ensure a batch of light, fluffy muffins, mix the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients until just barely combined, and no more dry flour is visible.

What does adding an extra egg do to muffins?

If there isn't enough egg, your batter or dough may not be able to hold its structure or could end up overly dry or dense. On the other hand, if there is too much egg, your baked goods could lose their shape due to excess liquid, or have a rubbery (or even overly cakey) texture depending on the recipe.

Should you let muffin batter rest?

Rest the Muffin Batter The first, most hands-off way to make your muffins pop (literally) is to let the batter rest . Make the batter, cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and let the batter rest at room temperature for about 1 hour. If you're short on time, just 30 minutes can make a difference.

How do you keep muffins moist and fluffy?

The Best Way to Store Muffins STEP ONE: Let the muffins cool completely on a wire rack. STEP TWO: Line an airtight storage container with paper towels. STEP THREE: Place muffins in the container, on top of the paper towels. STEP FOUR: Place an additional paper towel layer on top of the muffins. More items...

What to add to muffin mix to make it moist?

Add greek yogurt to your muffin mix for extra moistness. Top with a vanilla glaze or sugar sprinkles.

How do you keep homemade muffins moist?

The Best Way to Store Muffins STEP ONE: Let the muffins cool completely on a wire rack. STEP TWO: Line an airtight storage container with paper towels. STEP THREE: Place muffins in the container, on top of the paper towels. STEP FOUR: Place an additional paper towel layer on top of the muffins. More items...

Why are my muffins not moist?

If the muffins are dry, it is possible that they were baked for slightly too long. The oven temperature is slightly higher that you would normally use for cakes, as this helps to give the muffins nicely domed tops, a good crust and a moist interior. This means that the baking time is only 15-20 minutes.

Are muffins better with oil or butter?

The muffins made with oil had a very light and soft texture, they were perfect! The texture of the oil muffins was superior to the texture of the butter muffins . I will also say using butter is probably best in a recipe that doesn't have a lot of flavor add-ins, like a basic muffin recipe.

Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins Recipe - Lilyrose Bakers Blog (2024)

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Cinnamon sugar donuts are one of my favorite comfort foods, but I (almost) never want to stand over the stove deep frying donuts… so, I tried this donut muffins recipe and they were perfect! The fluffy inside and buttery cinnamon sugar top mimic the original donuts and you (almost!) can’t tell the difference.

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What are donut muffins?

Donut muffins are really just a muffin disguised as a donut! It’s a shortcut to making donuts, which is a long and tedious process. Of course, if I’m honest with myself, I would have to admit that donut muffins are not quite the same as actual donuts… but they do come close!

Ingredients for this Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins recipe:

You can easily make this recipe with ingredients you have on hand. You can make the recipe non-dairy with a few simple adjustments.

Milk (or non-dairy milk such as almond milk, soy milk etc)
Vinegar, to create homemade buttermilk
Egg
Oil, I used Sunflower oil, but Canola works well
White Sugar, you can also use a mix of white and brown
Flour
Baking Powder
Salt
Cinnamon
Nutmeg, this is optional but it adds a nice depth of flavor
Vanilla
Butter for topping, you can use non-dairy butter as well

How to make this recipe:

Follow these super simple steps and you’ll have these donut muffins in under 30 minutes from start to finish!

First we create our own homemade buttermilk by mixing milk with vinegar and letting it sit for a few minutes.
Then mix together the wet ingredients.
And add the dry ingredients to combine.
Bake in a mini muffin tin for just 10 minutes.
Once the donut muffins are slightly cooled, dip the tops in melted butter and cinnamon sugar.

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Can you freeze Donut Muffins?

Yes! These donut muffins freeze beautifully. If making them ahead of time, I recommend putting them in a ziplock bag or airtight container and freezing.

When ready to eat, remove them from the freezer about an hour in advance to defrost and pop them in the microwave for 10 seconds to warm up.

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More recipes like this:

Try the Easy Baked Donuts from my blog.

Or these Chocolate Baked Donuts from my friend Dee over at One Sarcastic Baker.

Did you try this recipe?

I’d love to hear what you think when you try my recipes! Please rate this recipe and leave a comment 🙌🏻

Donut Muffins

Cinnamon sugar donuts are one of my favorite comfort foods, but I (almost) never want to stand over the stove deep frying donuts… so, I tried these donut muffins and they were perfect! The fluffy inside and buttery cinnamon sugar top mimic the original donuts and you (almost!) can't tell the difference.

5 from 1 vote

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Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Baking, Easy, Muffins

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Servings: 24 mini donut muffins

Calories: 154kcal

Cost: 4$

Equipment

Mini Muffin Tin

Ingredients

¾ cup milk or non dairy alternative such as almond milk
½ tsp white vinegar
1 L egg
¼ cup sunflower oil or canola oil
½ cup white sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1½ cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg optional

Topping

⅓ cup white sugar
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 Tablespoons butter melted

Instructions

Bake Donut Muffins

Pre-heat oven to 350°F (180° C).
In a small bowl, or glass measuring cup mix milk with vinegar. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl whisk oil, egg, sugar and vanilla together until light and fluffy.
Add in the milk mixture and whisk some more.
Stir in dry ingredients and mix with a spatula until JUST combined, don't over mix.
Generously spray mini muffin tin with non-stick spray.
Using a cookie scoop or quarter cup measuring cup scoop muffin batter into prepared tin.
bake for 10-12 minutes until the center is set (not jiggling). Let cool for about 5-10 minutes.

Top the donut muffins

In a small bowl mix sugar and cinnamon.
Gently remove donut muffins from tin and dip the tops into the melted butter and then directly into the cinnamon sugar mix.
Enjoy!!

Notes

These donut muffins freeze beautifully, but will most likely be eaten straight out of the oven 😅

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Dee says
July 30, 2020 at 1:06 am

Yay for 10 minutes cinnamon donuts!! Thes e looks soo good!!!
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- Rosa says
  July 30, 2020 at 6:43 am
  Yay! Thank you so much Dee! Hope you LOVE them too 😘
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