Doughnut Muffins?!?!?

Are you serious? Can they really combine those two items?? I know what you're thinking- a muffin can't be a doughnut and a doughnut can't be a muffin - can it?? Don't worry, we're not there yet. After looking into a bit further, they are simply muffins that have a doughnut-esque quality and taste. Supposedly bakes fast and a hit at parties! Found one recipe from http://teamsugar.com/1074593.... but this recipe looks better http://www.thefoodsection.com/foodsection/2006/07/neither_muffin_.html. I cut and paste Number 1, but number 2 sounds more delicious.

Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins
2 cups of flour

1 tablespoon of baking powder

½ teaspoon of baking soda

½ teaspoon of salt

2 large eggs

1 cup plain yogurt

2/3 cup of brown sugar

4 to 8 Tablespoons of oil

1 teaspoon of vanilla

Topping:

½ stick of melted butter

¼ cup of sugar

1 teaspoon of cinnamon

Preheat oven to 400 and line muffin tin with paper cups. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl and set aside. In another bowl whisk together the eggs, yogurt, sugar, oil, and vanilla. Add the flour mixture in to the wet mixture and combine with light strokes until all of the dry ingredients are just moistened. The batter will be really lumpy and won’t be smooth at all. Divide the batter amongst the cups and bake 12-15 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.

Melt the butter in a small bowl so that just the muffin top will fit. And combine the sugar and cinnamon in another bowl. As soon as the muffins are done baking, take them out of the muffin tin and dip them one at a time in the melted butter and then roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture. This is where the asbestos hands come into play. Then set on the rack to cool completely. This makes 12 muffins.

Two great tastes that go great together. The technical definition of a donut muffin is somewhat tricky: There's no frying involved, but usually plenty of butter and sugar. They exist in that grey "third realm" of the baked good world.