Do you love cinnamon rolls as much as I do? Basically anything with cinnamon makes me happy! The other day, I was in a hurry to make something for breakfast and was craving a cinnamon roll. While I have a quick recipe here I still didn't have that much time before taking the kids to school. So, I thought "why can't I make a cinnamon roll muffin?" So I took my basic blueberry muffin recipe, altered it, and also basically made it up as I went along! So, here goes.
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups flour (I like to mix all purpose and whole wheat flours)
1 cup brown sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/3 cup vegetable oil (to lessen the fat, you can substitute apple sauce for the oil)
1 1/2 cup buttermilk (if you don't have in the fridge, just mix 1 Tbsp lemon juice or vinegar with the milk and allow to sit for a few minutes and voila! you have buttermilk)
2 Tbsp butter and 3 Tbsp brown sugar
Glaze
1 Tbsp of milk
1/2-1 cup of powdered sugar (depending on how thick or runny you want it)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F and prepare muffin tins.
- Mix dry ingredients together.
- Mix oil/applesauce and milk together and stir into dry ingredients.
OK this is where I started to "wing it" and make it up. I thought, how do I make cinnamon rolls? I made a dough, roll it out and then rub butter and then sugar/cinnamon. So, I melted a couple Tbsp of butter, added some brown sugar. I put 1/2 of the batter into the muffin tins, then I poured a bit of the butter/sugar mixture and then more batter on top.
- Bake for 18 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean when you poke the middle of one of the muffins.
- After they cooled for a bit, I added a bit of a glaze!! It wouldn't be a cinnamon roll muffin without some icing!
Let me know if you have any questions!
Happy baking!
Janel
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