Since I recently announced my semi-secret blog to the world, I’ve been having lots of discussions at work about food and photography. It felt about time that I bring in baked treats for the office, pictures and words are all very well but the essence of food is eating.
But what do I make? I wanted to make something new, something not already on my blog, but something that I know will go down well with my colleagues. As I am Coffee Muffins after all, I thought muffins would be perfect to start off with. With some lemon curd in the fridge and some blueberries in the freezer it was really tempting to go ahead and make these Lemon and Blueberry Muffins again.
But I managed to resist, out of all the things that make it on to the office “shared food counter” doughnuts are by far the most common. Usually from Tesco, often with jam and custard fillings, they tend to disappear quick.
So what could be more perfect than a Doughnut Muffin? Thankfully such a thing already existed! I had seen this wonderful recipe for Sugar Donut Muffins a couple of months back.
I made one batch, which should make 10 muffins, I ended up making 6 large muffins and 6 smaller fairy cake sized muffins. Half I topped with cinnamon sugar, the other with plain old caster sugar (and one of them I topped with caster sugar and raspberry jam – which I had for breakfast).
These are almost too simple to make (and far to easy to eat) the thing that shocked me the most was that they were a lot healthier than I imagined. I mean these are not for those of you on diets, but they must be a healthier option to the usual deep fried doughnut.
I stuck to Cinnamon Spice’s recipe for Sugar Donut Muffins religiously and they worked perfectly. The only problem is that next time I will have to make more :)
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I don’t usually like doughnuts but these look divine! I can’t get onto Cinnamon Spice’s website at the moment but intrigued to find out how you make these so have this bookmarked :-)
Is the texture more cake-like then? The texture is mostly what puts me off ‘normal’ doughnuts.
Hungry Jenny x
The texture is quite cake like, more so than a normal doughnut. It’s really good – I am actually thinking about buying a mini muffin tin so I can make more of these but bite sized – because then they would be perfect!
these look so good, checking out your blog while I have my coffee this morning is making me wish I had one of those delicious looking muffins….sigh
You really do a great job in your presentation of your blog…..I love it!!
I made these same muffins, they are truly delicious! Great pictures!
Our refrigerator has been out of commission for about a week. We’re waiting for a part and we’re about out of patience. For dinner, we cook from the garden so it’s been ok. But breakfast has been really difficult, especially for the kids. These would be great to make for them to eat in the morning. I bet they’d be really good toasted first. Thanks for the idea!
I like recipes that yield 8-12 treats and this is perfect. I love doughnuts and muffins and these look and sound so good!
I’ll bet your colleagues immediately became fans of your site after sinking their teeth into these little treats!
Lauren, these look absolutely delicious. I prefer to bake than to cook and I will definitely be making these. Thank you for sharing this from Cinnamon Spice.
Going “public” is a big step, and you picked a great recipe to seal the deal – I’ll bet they flew off the plate at work! I think I’d need jam on mine too. Yum!!
Thanks for sharing this…healthy and delicious at the same time :)
wow these look delicious and are such a healthier option than a donut, goona have to make these with my neice