Apple Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins
Servings: 12 regular muffins
Equipment
Ingredients
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- ¾ cup milk low fat is fine
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour I used whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 tsp baking power
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 small apples grated
Topping:
- 2 tbsp butter melted
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease a muffin tin with cooking spray or vegetable oil.
- In a large bowl, beat together sugar and egg until light in color. Add in vegetable oil, milk and vanilla extract.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Add to egg mixture and stir to combine. Stir in grated apples.
- Divide batter evenly into 12 muffin cups, filling each about ¾ full.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes, until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean.
- While muffins are baking, melt butter in a small bowl in the microwave. In another small bowl, combine remaining sugar and cinnamon.
- When muffins are done, cool for a few minutes in the muffin pan, remove from pan and dip muffin top in melted butter, then immediately dip in cinnamon sugar mixture. Cool on a wire rack.