French Breakfast Puffs
Ingredients
Puffs:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
Coating:
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 pound (2 sticks butter)
- 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degreesFahrenheit. Lightly grease 12muffin cups.
- In a large bowl, stir together theflour, baking powder, salt andnutmeg. Set aside.
- In a separate large bowl, creamtogether the sugar and shortening.
- Add the eggs and mix again.
- Alternate adding one-third of the flour mixture and one-third of the milk to the creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
- Fill the muffin cups two-thirds full.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until golden. Remove the muffins from the pan and set aside.
- To make the coating, melt the butter in a bowl or glass pan. In a
separate container, combine the sugar and cinnamon. - Dip the warm muffins in the butter, coating thoroughly…
- Then roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- After cooling completely, puffs can be frozen in plastic bags and reheated later.
