Baked Donut Muffins

The muffins are wonderful! They are highly addictive, so I recommend doubling the recipe. I live in upstate New York, and one of the treats around here that everyone knows and loves are apple cider donuts. These muffins taste a lot like those, so they keep my family satisfied during winter, spring, and summer (when apple cider donuts are not available). I was thinking of substituting apple cider or juice for the milk, just to see if the taste would come closer. Also, to make the recipe more decadent, I used a pastry brush to put some melted butter on the muffins before I rolled them in cinnamon and sugar. It makes the mixture stick more and gives the muffins a little bit more of a sinful flavor. I saw a show on the Food channel called "The Best Thing I Ever Ate," and one of the cooks suggested donut muffins from one of her favorite bakeries. When they showed how they made the muffins, they slathered the muffins in butter when they came out of the oven and then dusted them with the cinnamon and sugar, so that gave me the idea. It's worth the extra calories.

I liked these very much. I agree with some of the other reviewers in that I didn't think they tasted like doughnuts, but they stand on their own merit I think. Plus they are quick and easy to make. (i was a little worried about adding the milk after the dry ingredients, in my experience it's usually the dry ingredients that go in last, but it worked OK) I made one batch as the recipe The second batch I made with a little blob of jam (jelly) in the middle and that worked well too. Thanks Petunia (and your aunt!)

Absolutely yummy! I doubled the batch, then made half mini muffins with cinnamon topping and then added a squirt of lemon juice and a handful of blueberries to the rest of the batter and made them regular size and they were perfect! I'm going to freeze some so I don't eat them all at once.

Made these yesterday and boy do they smell good. I couldnt resist one right out of the oven. They do have a donut taste and would be good w/confec sugar on top as well.

Yummy. Very versatile. I doubled the batch and made 4 different muffins - raspberry, cherry, plain and passionfruit cheesecake (mixed together cream cheese and passion fruit jelly - this mixture kind of disappeared into the muffin somehow - gave a bit of flavour but no cheesecake layer). Easy and very tasty. I made some of the plain ones as directed except I did brush the hot muffins with melted butter before sprinkling on the cinnamon sugar. On the rest of the plain ones I sprinkled the cinnamon sugar before baking - gave a nice crunchy top. All were great! Thanks so much.