Cinnamon Muffins | Cookies & Cups

Issues to Love About These Cinnamon Muffins

Ah, cinnamon muffins, how I really like you. Allow us to rely the methods. This recipe makes massive, fluffy breakfast muffins bursting with healthful oats, chocolate chips, and all of the flavors of a freshly baked cinnamon roll. They’re smooth and buttery, full with a gooey cinnamon sugar layer inside. Right here’s why they’re a morning deal with to have on repeat:

• Cinnamon roll-inspired. At any time when I don’t really feel as much as the duty of creating basic yeasted cinnamon rolls, these cinnamon muffins are a scrumptious (and really shut) second. They even have that gooey filling I crave in the true factor!
• Simple to make. These muffins have a buttery oat topping, cinnamon sugar filling, and the muffin itself (plus a glaze, as a result of I couldn’t resist). The recipe may be very beginner-friendly, although, and every step takes only a few minutes. 
• Baked in 20 minutes. With a fast, 20-minute baking time, these muffins are excellent for a weekend morning. You’ll have to funds one other 15-20 minutes of prep time, however you possibly can have smooth, fluffy cinnamon muffins prepared for the breakfast desk in underneath an hour.

Elements You’ll Want

Lots of the elements for the filling, topping, and muffin batter overlap, and virtually all of them are pantry staples. Listed below are some notes to get issues began. Scroll right down to the printable recipe card for the complete elements checklist, quantities, and recipe particulars.

For the Muffins

• Butter – Salted or unsalted, melted within the microwave. 
• Milk – This may be complete milk, 2%, or any dairy or non-dairy milk you could have readily available.
• Eggs – You may convey these to room temperature.
• Flour – All-purpose flour works completely right here.
• Oats – I like to recommend utilizing old school (rolled) oats. Keep away from on the spot oats as they are usually mushy.
• Cornstarch – The key to additional smooth, fluffy, and tender muffins.
• Baking Powder and Salt – Make sure to examine the dates in your baking powder to make sure it’s not expired.
• Spices – Since there’s loads of cinnamon within the filling, I taste the muffins with floor nutmeg. You may as well use cinnamon right here.
• Chocolate Chips – I exploit white chocolate chips, however any sort goes. You should utilize milk, darkish, or semisweet chocolate chips, or go away them out altogether if you happen to want.
• Streusel – I make a variation of a streusel topping with oats, brown sugar, flour, softened butter, and cinnamon.
• Glaze – I end these cinnamon muffins with a easy (elective) glaze made out of powdered sugar, softened butter, and milk. 

For the Filling

• Butter – Additionally melted.
• Brown Sugar – This may be mild brown sugar or darkish brown sugar, it’s as much as you. Granulated sugar may also work in a pinch.
• Cinnamon – Floor cinnamon, or you should use a mix of heat spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, or pumpkin pie spice.

Learn how to Make Cinnamon Muffins

A number of steps are concerned in making these cinnamon sugar-filled cinnamon muffins, however don’t fear. All of them are tremendous simple! Observe beneath and scroll right down to the recipe card for the printable directions.

Recipe Ideas

• Preheat the oven. Make it possible for your oven is absolutely preheated to 400ºF earlier than you bake your cinnamon muffins (or any muffins, for that matter). Muffins want excessive warmth to get these tall, stunning domes similar to you see within the bakeries!
• Don’t overmix the muffin batter. As is the case with most baked items, overmixing the batter for these cinnamon muffins will yield dense, powerful, chewy muffins as a substitute of sunshine, fluffy ones. Fold the elements collectively gently and watch out to not overwork the batter when you’ve mixed the moist and dry elements.
• Adapt the consistency of the glaze. Should you’re glazing your cinnamon muffins, you possibly can add extra milk to skinny out the glaze, or extra powdered sugar to assist thicken it.
• Extra add-ins. These muffins are fairly absolutely loaded as-is, however if you wish to, you possibly can substitute the white chocolate chips with completely different add-ins like blueberries, cranberries, or chopped nuts, like pecans.

Learn how to Retailer Do-it-yourself Muffins

• At room temperature. These cinnamon muffins are at their freshest when saved at room temperature for as much as 3 days. You may preserve them within the fridge, however I recommend taking them out forward to take pleasure in them at room temperature.
• Freeze. I like to recommend freezing these cinnamon muffins unglazed. Let the muffins cool fully and retailer them in a freezer bag or container. Freeze for as much as 3 months, and thaw at room temperature for serving.