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Get the Recipe: Maple Brown Sugar Donut Muffins Recipe

Maple brown sugar donut muffins are a cross between two breakfast classics: donuts and muffins! Maple donut batter is baked in a muffin pan and tossed in three different types of sugar, just like a sugared donut.
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Ingredients

For the Maple Brown Sugar Donut Muffin Batter

For the Maple Brown Sugar Donut Muffin Coating

  • 5 Tablespoons (2.5 ounces or 71 grams) Maple Me Crazy™ Butter Spread, melted and cooled slightly
  • ¼ cup tightly packed (1.85 ounces or 52 grams) light OR dark brown sugar
  • ¼ cup (1.75 ounces or 50 grams) granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup (1.35 ounces or 38 grams) maple sugar

Equipment

  • a muffin pan
  • cooking spray
  • a 1-Tablespoon OR 3-Tablespoon cookie dough scoop
  • a pastry brush

Instructions
 

For the Maple Brown Sugar Donut Muffins

  • Prep the oven and pans. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 400°F. Spray the inside of the cavities in the muffin tin generously with cooking spray.
  • Make the dry mix. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt.
  • Make the wet mix. In a large bowl, mix together the maple syrup, melted Maple Me Crazy™ Butter Spread, eggs, and buttermilk.
  • Make the muffin batter. Gradually mix in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just combined.
  • Assemble the muffins. Use a 1 ½-Tablespoon or 3-Tablespoon cookie dough scoop to fill each cavity with 3 generous Tablespoons of the batter.
  • Bake the muffins. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, or until the muffins are domed and a skewer inserted into the center of a muffin comes out with a few crumbs attached. Cool in the muffin pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes, then turn the muffins out onto the rack to cool slightly.
  • Make the coating. While the muffins are cooling, make the coating. Pour the melted Maple Me Crazy™ Butter Spread into a shallow bowl. In another shallow bowl, whisk together the brown sugar, granulated sugar, and maple sugar.
  • Assemble the muffins. Quickly brush the top and sides of a muffin with the melted Maple Me Crazy™ Butter Spread. Immediately sprinkle with the sugar coating to coat completely and place on a wire rack. Repeat with the remaining muffins.
  • Serve and store. Serve warm or at room temperature. The muffins can be wrapped individually in plastic wrap or stored in an airtight container or under a cake dome at room temperature for up to 2 days.

Notes

  • This recipe instructs you to use melted Maple Me Crazy™ Butter Spread in the muffin batter AND its coating. I find that the easiest way to melt the butter spread is in the microwave. I place the butter spread in a microwave-safe bowl and melt on medium-low power for 10 seconds at a time. The intervals prevent the butter spread from overheating. You want to heat it so gently that the butter does not sizzle, crackle, or pop at all.
  • When prepping recipes that use melted butter or butter spread, I always melt the butter/butter spread first. Doing so gives it enough time to cool while I prep the other ingredients. You don’t want it to be so hot when you add it to the rest of the ingredients—it might accidentally cook the eggs in the batter!
  • To make a less indulgent maple brown sugar donut muffin, you can scale back on the coating and only coat the muffin tops with the Maple Me Crazy™ Butter Spread and sugars! To do so, bake the muffins in paper liners. Then, follow the instructions to brush the muffin tops and sprinkle them with the sugars for the coating. That’s it! Note that, if you go this route, you’ll likely need only half of the quantities listed in the ingredients for the coating.
  • This recipe works best if you coat the donuts while they’re still warm, about 5 to 10 minutes after pulling them out of the oven and turning them out of the donut pan. Warm donuts absorb more butter and hold onto the sugar topping better.
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