Description
These French breakfast muffins deliver pure morning comfort right from a French bakery straight to your kitchen. Sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and baked until golden, these delicate treats will make your breakfast feel like a sweet Parisian morning.
Ingredients
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Dry Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
Wet Ingredients:
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 egg
- ½ cup warm milk
Coating:
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
Instructions
- Heat your oven to 350°F and coat a 12-cup muffin pan with cooking spray or butter.
- Blend 1 ½ cups flour, ½ cup sugar, 1 ½ tsp baking powder, ½ tsp salt, and ¼ tsp nutmeg in a large mixing bowl.
- Whisk 5 Tbsp melted butter, 1 room temperature egg, and ½ cup warm milk in a separate bowl until smooth.
- Gently fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients, stirring only until ingredients are just combined.
- Divide batter evenly across muffin cups, filling each about two-thirds full.
- Slide pan into preheated oven and bake precisely 18-20 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Mix ⅓ cup sugar and ¾ tsp cinnamon in a shallow dish while muffins are baking.
- Remove muffins from oven and let them rest for 3-4 minutes.
- Brush each muffin top with 3 Tbsp melted butter.
- Roll buttered muffin tops in cinnamon-sugar mixture until completely coated.
- Transfer muffins to a wire rack and serve warm for maximum flavor and texture.
Notes
- Nutmeg adds a subtle warmth that makes these muffins distinctly French-style, so don’t skip this spice.
- Mixing wet and dry ingredients separately ensures a tender, light texture without overmixing the batter.
- Brush melted butter on muffins while they’re still warm to help the cinnamon-sugar coating stick perfectly.
- For a gluten-free version, swap regular flour with a cup-for-cup gluten-free blend and check baking time carefully.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 18-20 minutes
- Category: Muffins
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: French
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6
- Calories: 229 kcal
- Sugar: 17 g
- Sodium: 174 mg
- Fat: 11 g
- Saturated Fat: 7 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 30 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 44 mg