the essence

When we were kids Megan always made these baked donut nuggets. They don't taste like donuts but they're still quite tasty! She posted the recipe today & I was inspired so just an hour later I was pulling my own batch out of the oven.



(Click Megan's blog for a much better photo)

Ingredients
(makes about 24-30 mini muffins)

1/2 C butter, softened
1/3 C sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
1 1/2 C flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 milk

Topping:
1/4 C powdered sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon


Beat sugar, butter, vanilla, and egg in one bowl and mix the dry ingredients separately in another. Add half the flour mixture to the butter mixture and stir, then add half the milk and stir again. Repeat process the with remaining flour mixture and milk.

Grease mini muffin pans and fill to 2/3 full. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 F for about 20 minutes.


Immediately remove the muffins from the tins and place 10 at a time into a ziploc bag with powdered sugar and cinnamon. Seal bag, then shake gently to coat.

Addison was very excited & the first thing out of her mouth after trying them was, "mmm...."