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Soft and Tender Snickerdoodle Cinnamon Muffins, you should give it a whirl.
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Snickerdoodle Cinnamon Muffins
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Rest Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 18 minutes
- Total Time: 38 minutes
- Yield: 12 Muffins 1x
- Category: Cake, Cupcakes, Cookies and Tarts
- Cuisine: Teatime
Description
Soft and Tender Snickerdoodle Cinnamon Muffins
Ingredients
Muffin Mixture
- 3/4 cup superfine sugar (Berry sugar) but I guess regular sugar will also work. I always use Berry sugar for baking
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 cup Self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking power
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 cup of vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup Almond milk (regular milk will also work)
- 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract (you can also use caramel essence if you want a different flavor)
Sugary topping
- 2 Tbsp pure butter, melted
- 1/2 cup superfine Berry sugar
- 1 1/2–2 tsp ground (depending on taste)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease muffin wells or use spray and cook or any other cake release agent.
- Beat with an electric hand mixer the sugar and egg until it is light in color and frothy.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg and then blend into the egg mixture and stir to combine.
- Pour in oil, milk, and vanilla extract and continue to mix well until no lumps visible.
- Divide batter evenly into muffin cups, filling each about ¾ full.
- I used a mini muffin scoop as a measure and made 12 muffins, plus one mini loaf pan.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes in preheated oven or until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Finishing touches
- Melt the butter in a small bowl and keep aside for painting on the piping hot muffin once ready.
- Mix sugar with ground cinnamon and set aside.
- Leave the muffin in the pan and immediately paint the tops with melted butter.
- Now, gently remove them one by one, and dip and roll the tops of the Snickerdoodle muffin in the cinnamon sugar. If you like it sweeter, drop the bottom also in the sugar. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
- If you prefer, gently sprinkle some extra cinnamon as decoration on the top before serving it with a steaming cup of tea or coffee.
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested by Esme Slabs from The Recipe Hunter: Tried and Tested Recipes from Home Chefs; SA Tasty Recipes – Saffas Daily Recipes and EsmeSalon Homemade Recipes
Some Health Benefits of Cinnamon

- Has Anti-Inflammatory Properties
- Helps Fight Bacterial and Fungal Infections
- Are Loaded with Antioxidants
- Cinnamon Help with Lowering Blood Sugar Levels and Has a Powerful Anti-Diabetic Effect
- It Cut the Risk of Heart Disease
- Does Have Beneficial Effects on Neurodegenerative Diseases
- May Help Fight the HIV Virus
- May Protect Against Cancer
- Can Help with Preventing Alzheimer’s disease
- May Help with Preventing multiple sclerosis
- May Help with Reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease
- And also helps with Treating and healing chronic wounds
How about a Pumpkin Spice Snickerdoodle Cookie
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This recipe looks great. I love the aroma of cinnamon. Thanks Esme for hosting and sharing. #senisal
Sorry for the slow response. I have been hospitalized, but now at home so doing catch up. Hope you will enjoy it as much as I did the batch I made. Once out of bed this will be on my to bake list again.
Those look great! #SeniSal
Dear Edna, thanks for participating and commenting through #senisal
These look wonderful. I love a muffin in the morning with my coffee. I am saving this recipe. Thanks!
I am the muffin lady and love to have one with a 10am coffee especially now that we work from home
These look great!! Thanks. Do you have to use self-raising flour?
Darlene. No you can use regular flour and just add baking powder to it.
Thanks!!