Doughnut muffins

An amazing recipe from this fabulous chef! These doughnut muffins will be a guaranteed hit among your loved ones!

Ingredients

Doughnut mixture

• 1 3/4 cups plain flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/3 cup light oil e.g canola or rice bran (or melted butter)
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk

Cinnamon sugar coating

• 125g melted butter
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Method

1. Line a 9 or 12 hole muffin tin with patty tins or cupcake papers.
2. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius fan forced.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon until combined.
4. In a medium bowl, whisk egg, milk, oil and sugar together until well combined and pale yellow in colour.
5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until just combined.
6. Spoon batter evenly into patty tins, about 3/4 full.
7. Bake in oven on 180 celcius fan forced for 5 or so minutes to have the muffins to dome nicely, then turn the temperature down to 165 degrees celcius fan forced to finish baking. Total time approximately 20 minutes. Done when springy to touch.
8. While the muffins are baking. stir together the cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl, and melt the butter. (if microwaving butter, keep it covered and on low heat).
9. Once cooked, immediately remove muffins from the tin as soon as possible, and peel off patty pans as soon as they are cool enough to touch. I have made this an optional step, as I have left the muffins to stay in the patty tins.
10. Dip the top of each into melted butter, and coat in the cinnamon sugar. Leave to sit on cooling rack. Once the coating has cooled, you can dip the bottoms in the butter and cinnamon too (optional). Or you can leave them in the patty tins (as mentioned) and dip the tops only.
11. Serve warm or cooled with ice cream!