Mimi's Cafe Buttermilk Spice Muffins
"Fill your kitchen with a magnetic aroma!"
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- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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6-12 muffins
ingredients
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Muffin Batter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter or 1/2 cup unsalted margarine
- 3 eggs
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 6 fluid ounces buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon buttermilk, additional
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Nut Topping
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
directions
- Heat oven to 375°F.
- In a mixing bowl, cream the sugar and butter together with an electric mixer.
- When they are thoroughly mixed, add the eggs and beat for 1 more minute.
- Sift the flour into a separate bowl, together with the baking soda, nutmeg and cinnamon.
- Add the flour and buttermilk to the first mixture, and mix at low speed until smooth.
- To avoid lumps in the batter, add the wet and dry ingredients alternately, in small amounts.
- Make the nut topping by combining all the Nut Topping ingredients together in a small bowl.
- Grease muffin tins with additional butter or margarine, or use paper or foil baking cups.
- Fill each cup ¾ full of batter.
- Add a full rounded tablespoon of the nut topping on top of the batter in each cup.
- Bake immediately, or the topping will sink to the bottom of the muffins, and then you will be mad at yourself – and we don’t want that to happen, do we?.
- Bake at 375°F for 20 to 25 minutes until the muffins are golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the middle of a muffin comes out dry.
- (Home ovens’ heat differently from Mimi’s commercial ovens, and so you may need to adjust the temperature and/or the baking time accordingly).
- This recipe yields 12 standard-size muffins, or 6 Jumbo-size muffins.
- If you are using jumbo muffin tins, reduce the oven temperature by 25° and increase the baking time by 5 to 10 minutes.
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Reviews
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Miller, these were wonderful muffins!!! The recipe made 12 (standard size pan) huge muffins! The crowns were really big--the best I've ever made! They were light, moist, and fluffy, and the topping was a really nice addition. The spices were a great combo, and I'm thinking that you could add chopped apples, or blueberries. This is the kind of muffin I always TRY to make, but the other "bakery style" recipes don't cut it! Thanks for sharing! If you have any others like this, please share those, as well!!! -
Due to the fact that I was able to read leeannr’s glowing review of these muffins just before I made them myself I had an opportunity to experiment a wee bit with the tin size. My 12-c. tins are rather ancient and have a somewhat smaller capacity than is currently ‘fashionable’. I had mental images of tops flowing together and making the muffins almost impossible to get out of my all to likely to stick (as opposed to non stick)tins. The resulting mess would hardly suitable for guest fare. I used two six-celled popover tins and still the muffins filled them amply, without loosing that oh-so-desirable peaked top. The muffins themselves were moist and light and the texture and flavour were excellent. With the addition of the topping they were definitely decadent. Unfortunately i will not be able to comment as to whether they remain moist when stored for a day or two...I will be lucky if they last the day. Thank you Miller,I'm looking forward to making this recipe time and time again.
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These muffins were nice. They had a lovely, light texture and a crunchy, toasted nut topping.I didn't have walnuts so I used pecans instead and increased the cinnamon to 1 teas. I found that despite the fact they were light and moist, they were still lacking something. I think next time I'll add 1/8 teaspoon of ginger and cloves and some raisins to the batter.
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I found this recipe extremely disappointing. Good Points: liked the topping and how the muffins did rise - beautiful "crown". Bad Points: completely lacked in flavor - what spice - there wasn't any. Be careful not to overcook, because they will become dry quickly. I can't believe people actually pay someone at Mimi's Cafe to make these. -
I read these reviews before I made the recipe, and they turned out wonderful with the tweaks I made! I doubled all of the spice measurements, added an egg, and increased the sugar by 1/4 of a cup. For mine, I actually halved the recipe, so they only took 10-12 minutes to bake at 375F, plus an extra five minutes at 420F at the beginning. Tastes just like the original!!
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Tweaks
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Okay, I've made these muffins 3 times now, and feel I finally perfected them with some tweaking. I had the same experience as others with muffins being dry, dense, and not sweet enough when baking exactly as recipe calls for. What I did was reduce flour to 2 1/4 cups, add 1/4 c sugar more, rounded the measurements of spices for more flavor, plus added 1 tsp of vanilla. I made sure to add wet ingredients to dry and just gently hand-mixed. I baked for 5 mins. at 420 then reduced heat to 375 for 20 mins. more. I used quick oats instead of walnuts in the topping and brushed them with a bit of egg white to help keep the topping from coming off all over during baking. Came out delicious!! Light, moist, airy, fluffy with shiny, slightly browned, sweet tops. Fantastic!!!!! -
Add 1/3 cup sugar more; 1/2 tsp nutmeg & cinnamon
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Millereg
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Gavin "Miller" Duncan passed away November 12, 2004 in Laurel, MD from complications of a "broken" heart. The outpouring of support from the Recipezaar community while his health was declining was a huge comfort to him and even "perked him up" a bit in his final month. Miller was a huge asset to Recipezaar, not only due to his incredible collection of recipes, but his participation in the forums. Miller was known for his wonderful low-sodium recipes, his warmth, and last, but not least, his wicked, dry sense of humor.
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