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Muffins that bake up beautifully tall and rounded, loaded with cinnamony-sugary goodness.
WOW! Yum! My word! MMMMM! Amazing! Oh my! Schmakalacka! Whoa! YIKES! Fab! ....... What's your superlative word? You know, the one you use when something is quite extraordinary, the one you'll say for sure when ...........
............. you smell the intoxicating aroma of these delightful SnickerDoodle Muffins wafting through your kitchen.
............. when you take a peek in the oven and see them rising up so beautifully tall and rounded.
............. when you pull them out, all golden and glistening with cinnamony-sugary goodness.
............. when you can't resist any longer, breaking one apart, warm from the oven, slathering a touch of the sweet, spicy butter as it melts right before your eyes, filling every little moist nook and cranny.
............. but most of all, when you take that first, melt-in-your-mouth, delicious bite.
.............. Oh yeah, be ready - cause whatever your superlative word is, you'll find yourself saying it ................. more than once!
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Snickerdoodle Muffins with Doodlesnicker Butter
Ingredients
Ingredients for the cinnamon/sugar mixture:
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
Ingredients for the muffins:
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 stick butter, softened (for the DoodleSnicker Butter)
Instructions
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 400˚F.
- Combine the first ½ cup sugar with the one tablespoon of cinnamon. Mix well to combine. Set aside.
- Spray 12 muffin pan cups liberally with cooking spray. Using your index finger wrapped with a paper towel rub inner surfaces of muffin cups to ensure complete coverage. Sprinkle approximately 1 teaspoon of the sugar mixture into each muffin cup. Holding the pan over the sink, tilt pan to coat each cup with the sugar cinnamon mixture. If needed use a little more of the sugar/cinnamon and sprinkle any unsugared places with mixture. When cups are coated, discard any loose sugar into the sink.
- Beat butter and sugar. Add egg and beat well. Combine milk and sour cream. Combine dry ingredients and add alternately with milk mixture beating just until combined.
- Spoon by rounded teaspoons into greased muffin cups, sprinkling a ½ teaspoon of the cinnamon/sugar mixture over each teaspoon full. Continue till each muffin cup is ⅔ full. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon over top of each muffin. Reserve the rest of the sugar for the DoodleSnicker Butter. (You should have about ¼ cup left.)
- Bake at 400˚F for 5 minutes. Reduce temperature to 325˚F and continue to bake another 10 -15 minutes until springy when gently touched on top. (This initial burst of heat helps the muffins rise tall and round.)
- Remove from oven. Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes then remove from pan and place onto a cooling rack. Try to control yourself a bit if you can!
Instructions for the DoodleSnicker Butter:
- Place remaining sugar in a microwave-safe bowl.
- Add 2 teaspoons of the butter and microwave on high for 10-20 seconds or until butter is melted. Remove from microwave and stir to combine. Mixture should be like a thick paste.
- Allow to cool then add to softened butter, swirling through butter just a bit. Serve at room temperature with the muffins.
Nutrition
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Another great muffin to add to my recipe book. These muffins just melt in your mouth and easy to make...sooo good. Thanks!
Yay! Thanks for sharing your review!
My husband and I made these this afternoon. The aroma of the cinnamon and nutmeg was so comforting at this time. We waited ten minutes before removing from the pan, but then ate one withing the next 5 minutes. We will be freezing some and having some tomorrow for breakfast. Thanks again for another wonderful recipe.
I'm so happy you enjoyed them, Karen! Thanks for taking the time to share your results!
Amazing, My husband loves these SnickerDoodle Muffins. Even I enjoy it, and I am not a big fan of SnickerDoodle Muffins..
Thanks so much!
My daughter and I tried these with soup for supper last night! In a family of 9, they were a hit. And why not? Good muffin flavor, cinnamony-sugar crunchiness top and bottom (I was in a hurry and did mini muffins --made 24--without the sugar mix inside), and for Mom, easy to prepare!
I enjoy reading your "chemistry experiments" kitchen style, but more so, I enjoy trying your recipes in my own kitchen. So many "tasty" recipes in the "blog world" sound and look fantastic, but when I read through the recipe, they tend to be complicated and include ingredients I just don't have, and I tend to have a well-stocked pantry and spice cupboard. Your recipes look and taste good, with truly ease of preparation. Yay!
Most of all, I love that you found Christ and are living for Him!
Oh good grief...now you have done it!!
chris, i'll probably dreaming of these muffins tonight!! i'm going to bookmark this right away!
Ok you've absolutely sold me - I'm making these tonight!!
mary x
HOly Snickerdoodleness!!!! Fantabulicious!!!!
I have a feeling that Liv and her girlfriend would devour a batch of these beauties. Beautiful photos by the way.
Loving this recipe!
Hi, wow... your muffins look delicious. Very nice click like 3D, wish I can grab one now from my screen. LOL
I always love cinnamon flavor, yum yum. Have a nice week ahead.
I had the chance to make these tonight to go with soup for dinner. They're heavenly. My family could only say Mmmmm!
I dont know the word! But these look absolutely amazing I want one now to my coffe LOL
What a delicious muffin!! blessings dear. Catherine xo
I love snickerdoodles! I always make them this time of year because of the spice mix. These muffins are beautiful and the butter - mmmmm divine!
Fabulous!
wowo! you got me at the name and the photo! they look perfect! got here from TS, and I'd love it if you could share this recipe with the BakeFest blog event on my blog:
http://www.funandfoodcafe.com/2012/10/blog-event-bake-fest-12.html
Thanks,
Mansi
Ooh, boy, these look magnificent, Chris!! I know I'd need more than one...and that butter is making me swoon~
I do not make muffins very often but you have convinced me that these are worth trying 🙂 Keep well Diane
I love the name snicker doodles, who ever came up with that one!? It's so cute -I've never seen muffins baked with these flavors and they are making me very happy(and a little hungry;-) They look fantastic;-)
They sound great and look beautiful! My saying for amazing food is "that's just not right"-meaning it's just too good:@)
Thanks Anonymous for getting back to us about your yummy muffins! I do hope sister #2 got a least one! 🙂
Wow! Wow! These muffins (and the butter) looks absolutely AMAZING! Plus these are stunning!
Oh my heavens ~ is this combination divine, or what?!
You feature the best recipes! Thank you for sharing this one. ((hugs)) and blessings! ~m. 😉
I had my daughter take them out of the oven while I dropped off my other daughter and when I walked through the door she exclaimed "these muffins are awesome!" She has already eaten 3 since they came out of the oven. Hope there's some left for when her sister comes home!
I didn't have nutmeg so I substituted cinnamon instead, but followed the rest of the recipe. They are delicious! My daughter told me to make another batch now so she can eat all the muffins!
I'm imagining how good snickerdoodles smell while they're baking and I bet these are at least 5 times more delicious.
Mmm mmm mmm nom nom nom.
I'm swooning, I can just smell them right now!
Lucen absolutamente lindos y tentadores me encantan a la canela Mmmmmm ....Woooww quiero uno,abrazos hugs hugs.
I love that one Sandra, it's new to me! You always teach me new things!
Jenifer - you totally crack me up!
Alrighty then, I have to have these. These are moving to the top of the must make list. They are going to be the bomb/diggity-ist! How's that for a superlative.
Mmmmm....snickerdoodles are my favorite cookie so I am certain these would quickly become by favorite muffin.....and, topped with snickerdoodle butter...what could be better!!
Chris I am absolutely drooling. I can smell them baking now. This is the kind of thing I could diet all week if I knew I could have one on the weekend. Slathered in butter - oozing and dripping - eat it with a folk frenzy!
These sound like something I would love to try.
I love snickerdoodles, but the muffins never seem to live up to the hype. These definitely look like they will with all that cinnamon sugar goodness! YUM 🙂
My word is "Holy Crapper Dapper Doos'! and that is exactally what these muffins are ! I have to make them! Snickerdoodles are in my top three favorite cookies and you tuirned them into a muffin! Yummy!!
Another of your fantastic recipes I have pinned to my page.
I love snickerdoodle cookies, so I have no doubt I will love these muffins. I'm already imagining one with a piping hot cup of Earl Grey.
I would love to have one right now 🙂 Wow, they look so yummy!
Hi Chris, I can smell a lot of cinnamon in the air... 🙂 Lovely muffins, just in time for breakfast...
I've always loved Snicker Doodle cookies but had no idea about the muffin form.
Have to get my hands on some of these.
These muffins look heavenly, I think I need one for my Monday breakfast! 🙂