So I absolutely love watching the Food Network. It gives me such inspiration and gets my creative juices flowing. When I watched the new show Great American Food Finds Mr. Pinkcakeplate was mesmerized by these little muffins called Dirt Bombs. His eyes glazed over and right there and then I knew I had to make these bad boys!!
I woke up early Saturday morning and started in on these cinnamony delicious little devils. I was so excited I even made them wrong. I totally forgot to cream the butter and sugar before adding rest of the ingredients. Guess what???? They turned out totally awesome.
Now I don’t recommend not following the directions and I can tell you I was lucky they were not a total flop but they turned out amazing! This recipe is one I found on the internet I did not use whole milk either I only had 2% and it worked fine.
These muffins turned out moist and tender and oh so good. The cinnamon sugar crusted bombs were out of this world. Two thumbs up from Mr. Pinkcakeplate!
Dirt Bomb Muffins
Ingredients
- 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 butter, room temperature (no substitutes)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup whole milk
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 8 tablespoons 1 stick butter, melted (no substitutes)
Instructions
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mix sugar and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Working one at a time, dip muffins in melted butter, then coat with cinnamon sugar mixture.
I just made these. Huge hit. The only thing I did different was I used 1-1/2 Tbl of heavy and enough skim milk to make a cup. I didn’t have whole milk. I also liberally brushed melted butter on muffins and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar mixture.