Did They Eat It: French Breakfast Muffins

I make French Breakfast Muffins pretty often because like Snickerdoodles, I almost always have the ingredients on hand. Butter, an egg, milk, flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla. Easy! Apparently my pantry is French.

You can find several variations of this recipe but I like the one I saw in Family Fun years ago the best.

First you combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg in a large bowl using a wire whisk. Make a well in the middle of it, like so:

Whisk the egg until it's frothy then blend in the milk and melted butter like so.

Pour the mixture into the well in the middle of the dry ingredients.

Stir to combine but don't over mix!

Use some butter to grease your muffin pan and evenly spread your mix among 12 muffin cups.

Melt another bit of butter in a bowl and mix up some cinnamon sugar in another bowl and have them ready for the next step.

Dip each muffin into the melted butter:

Here's where my camera battery went out so I had to use my phone to take the last few pictures. After the butter, dip the muffins into the cinnamon/sugar.

Look, yum!

Here they are all done and looking good enough to eat 5 of them throughout the day. Not that I did.

Okay, look it was MLK Day, the kids were home, they'd been sick for the last few days and we were all a little stir crazy. I did what I had to.

Did They Eat It?

Coated in sugar? Filled with sugar? Duh.

Complete recipe here.

Comments

[amy]

Those look marvelous!

Where are your flour and sugar bins from? I have ones that I hate and am looking to replace. I love that those are short and rectangular.

[JRM]

Seriously, those look so good!

[ErikaMSN]

I want to know about the flour & sugar bins too--those are awesome!

[Phoe]

Holy cow, those look amazing! You are welcome at my house any time.

[Tina]

I am starving...skipped lunch, these look great... thinking of skipping right on to red wine.

[Amy]

I've made these before and they are SO yummy. They are like doughnuts, but you don't need a deep-fryer to make them. It's been way too long, though--maybe I'll make them again soon.

[Andria Stanley]

I'm with Amy... WHERE are your flour and sugar bins from?! Lurve them!

[Bill in Clinton Twp]

The bins look like Lock-N-Lock containers to me, with p-touch labels. I use them the same way.

[Melissa Summers]

Yes!

Sent from my iPhone with fat fingers on tiny keys.

[Abby]

Maybe a dumb question, but I am not so much with the cooking: do you have to temper the eggs before you add the melted butter?

[Tracy Purrenhage]

looked so good that after reading your post at 9:30 last night, I made them instead of going to sleep. the kids had them for breakfast this morning and loved them. thanks.

[Angie]

My family is french, and we had these every weekend. My mom used to pipe in thinned-jam into the middle too. Yumm.

[Carolyn]

Love these and so do my kids. I use Pioneer Woman's recipe, although I don't roll the entire muffin in cinnamon and sugar like she does (have to show some restraint).

[Tracy]

Someone just brought these to work this morning and they are messy but SO damn yummy.

So, is that bluish-green (or greenish-blue) pottery a butter crock? So cute! Where did you get it?

[Melissa Summers]

I've never seen them there. Off to look. Her recipes are always good. I wish I lived on a ranch so I could work off all those calories!

[krissy]

Those look so delicious!!! I need to start writing down the recipes that I make. I love to cook and would love to share! I want to make these, my kids would love them!

[Melissa Summers]

I do have a butter crock I just bought, LOVE IT. That is a cute little Le Creuset jar I have kosher salt in, my sister in law gave it to me at Christmas.

[Stacy]

Are those fake red tulips? not judgin'. Tulips are my favorite and seeing them alive in my house year round would be an awesome thing.

Regarding today's post: you go girl.

[Melissa Summers]

They're real...part of my New Year's Resolution.

[Natalie]

I noticed the tulips as part of your New Years Resolution! Do I get points?

[Laura]

Ooh, I love those muffins! My aunt gave me a similar recipe years ago and I always make them into mini muffins and roll the whole darn thing in butter and sugar. Yum!

[Rosemarie]

Just wanted to say thanks for the recipe....I've several variations of these and this recipe was the best! Of course, now I'm trying not to eat them all.......