Dirt Bombs

(from castro15’s recipe box)

Categories: Desserts

Ingredients

  • muffins
  • Nonstick vegetable oil spray
  • 21/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • topping and assembly
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted

Directions

  1. muffins

  2. Preheat oven to 375°. Coat a standard 12-cup muffin pan with nonstick spray. Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg in a medium bowl; set aside.
  3. Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Beat in egg. With mixer on low speed, add dry ingredients in 3 additions alternating with milk in 2 additions, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
  4. Divide batter among muffin cups and bake, rotating pan halfway through, until a tester inserted into center comes out clean, 30–35 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes in pan, then transfer to a wire rack.
  5. topping and assembly

  6. Mix sugar and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Working one at a time, dip tops of muffins in melted butter, then cinnamon sugar.

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