Cinnamon Muffin Melt Clones

I’m sitting here in my pajamas, thinking about my resolutions for the new year.  I should probably get dressed, but I burned two dozen muffins this morning made from mixes that cost $7 a box, and I’m still annoyed. 

I followed the instructions to the letter…but never again.  I found a clone recipe online, made a few changes to it and I will never buy these mixes again because the clone recipe is awesome and bakes up perfectly in my calibrated gas oven, as opposed to the mixes I bought from Tastefully Simple.  There’s no way these muffins should bake 16-18 minutes at 400 degrees, like the box states.   Following the instructions in the recipe below, I baked my muffins for 15 minutes at 350 degrees and they were perfect. Very disappointed with the Tastefully Simple product, to say the very least.

Cinnamon Muffin Melt Clone

Ingredients: 

1 1/2 cups cake flour    1/2 cup granulated sugar

 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

 1/2 teaspoon salt

 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

 1 large egg

 3/4 milk

 1/3 cup unsalted butter

 For Rolling:

 1/2 cup granulated sugar

 1  teaspoon cinnamon

 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted

Directions: 

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 12 cup muffin pan. 
•  2. Mix dry ingredients together, set aside.
• Beat egg and milk together in small bowl, set aside. Beat softened butter until light and fluffy. 
•  3. Alternate adding in egg and flour mixtures, mixing after each addition.
•  4. Spoon batter into prepared muffin pan, filling each cup 2/3 full.
•  5. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool 5 minutes, turn pan over onto a wire rack removing all muffins then turning them over with tops up. Let them cool enough so they may be handled. 
•  6. Melt the remaining butter. Mix together sugar and cinnamon in the bowl of a food processor and process for 1-2 minutes, until mixture is very fine not powdered.
•  7. Once muffins have cooled dip all sides in melted butter then roll in cinnamon sugar mixture. Place on wire rack to finish cooling.

Sorry the photo isn’t the best, I just took the pic on the spur of the moment…I wasn’t planning on posting a recipe today.  That’s okay though, I’m happy to share the yumminess, and I’ll do my New Year’s post tomorrow.

S.