Snicker your doodle a muffin
There are people who do not care for chocolate. I know, I know…it is hard to comprehend, but I’ve heard stories on the internets and I’ve been told that they’re for reals. Those people have suffered long enough and they too deserve special treats that scream love from their flavorful, buttery crumbles. So if you happen to know of one of those people I suggest you bake them up a pile of snickerdoodle muffins…because they are so delightful that I cannot believe I wasted 46 years before I ate one.
I wish I could take credit for this amazing discovery but sadly no, it came from the genius Peabody, and I’m sure she’ll be nominated for a Nobel culinary prize or something for her astounding invention. I’ll admit that while I loved the concept of the muffin I wasn’t crazy about the recipe itself, mostly because it involved a mixer and a creaming technique with the butter and sugar. I generally think of muffins to be a type of quickbread that is formed from melted butter, egg, and milk combined with the dry ingredients and then quickly stirred. So I made some changes and came up with this recipe:
Snickerdoodle Muffins
printer-friendly recipe
2 cups flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon
Preheat oven to 375°F. Either butter a 12 cup muffin tin or use paper muffin cups.
Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl. In another bowl combine the melted butter, sugar, eggs, milk, and vanilla. Stir until combined. Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry and mix lightly with a fork.
Fill the muffin cups with batter. Top each muffin with the cinnamon/sugar mixture…it can be applied heavily.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into a muffin comes out clean.
I know…isn’t that beeauuutiiifffulll? So simple, easy, and so damn good. These muffins taste just like a snickerdoodle, tangy, sweet, cinnamony pleasure…perfect to serve to your true-love for breakfast on Valentine’s Day. Oh, and if you happen to be like me and have fallen hopelessly in love with Uno the Beagle…then bake them for your other true-love…humans will love these muffins, dogs not so much. BTW…my muffins are really yellow because the egg yolks were practically orange…pretty, huh!
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Ohh, I remember when she made these. I actually still have it in my to do list. Still haven’t gotten to make them though… They look very tasty :] Wonderful job!
Oh. my. god.
I love chocolate, but I will pick cinnamon over chocolate any day.
Now you’ve got me craving snickerdoodles! Great concept!
People who don’t like chocolate are crazy… I will make these muffins anyways though, just cause I know how good they are!
You are right, this would be a perfect treat for non-chocolate people! btw—this recipe just screams “old-fashion”–love it!
I am also not one of “those people”, but these look like pure comfort food! I think the girls and I should whip up a batch this weekend to balance out the chocolate overload!
Oooh, these look fabulous. I love your changes, too. I’ve been meaning to make Peabody’s recipe, but making the little dough balls seemed like too much effort. An excellent solution you’ve found!
Soft, fluffy and moist muffins with a sugar and cinnamon topping…mmm…
Love your blog, but these muffins didn’t love me so much. They didn’t turn out anything like the beautiful pictures. They overflowed the muffin cups. Also I made half as much topping which was still too much & also made them not look anything the lightly sprinkled looking ones you depict. Did you use oversized muffin tins? Where did I go wrong? Oh, they did taste nummy……Thanks!
Lori,
Oh I’m so sorry your muffins didn’t turn out well. I think it might be the baking soda. When I made them I couldn’t remember if I put in baking soda or not so I bet I didn’t. Also I’m very bad about measuring and so yes I’m not surprised about the cinnamon/sugar topping being too much. I’ll try again and correct the recipe. Sorry for the mistake and thanks for letting me know.
I made these and they are amazing. I did substitute the baking soda and cream of tartar for 2 teaspoons of baking powder and they were still perfect. Basically I was too lazy to go buy some more cream of tartar. :) And also, I added a bit of cinnamon to the muffin batter and it was perfect! I do agree with Lori about the topping. I put way too much and ended up having to broil the top and even then there was still loose cinnamon sugar and things got messy in my kitchen! But this was an amazing recipe and everyone loved them!
thank you for this recipe. i went a little ape with the sugar on top but it was still a hit at work.