Doughnut Flavoured Muffins

Yes I make muffins often becuase they are good lunch box fodder. I know doughnut flavoured muffins sounds odd, but really you could call them cinnamon-nutmeg muffins. I love cinnamon, so I guess that's why they work for me!

2 ½ cups flour
2 ½ tsp Baking powder
½ tsp salt
½ tsp cinnamon
¾ tsp nutmeg
½ cup oil
1 1/8 cup sugar
1 1/8 cup milk
1 large egg
Berry jam

TOPPING
¼ cup melted butter
½ cup sugar
1 – 2 tsp cinnamon
Set oven to 190C. Put muffin liners in 12 muffin pan.
Into large bowl sift together flour, baking powder, salt and spices.
In another bowl mix together oil, sugar, egg & milk. Add this mixture to the dry ingredients and stirt to combine. Spoon mixture to half fill muffin pans. Add half teaspoon of jam in centre of each muffin, then top up with remaining mixture. Bake for 20 mins. Remove from oven and while still warm brush with the melted butter then sprinkle with combined sugar and cinnamon.

Lemon Muffins with a cream-cheese centre

This is a recipe I've cut out of a magazine ages ago, and they disappear quickly.
Makes 12 muffins.

2 cups plain flour
1 tsp bicarb soda
2 eggs
125g butter
250ml milk
2 tsp grated lemon rind
2 tsp lemon juice

Filling
150g cream cheese, softened
2 tbsp caster sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp vanilla

Heat oven tp 180 C. Grease muffin pan or use liners.
Filling: Combine cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and vanilla.
Sift together flour and bicarb. in a large bowl., then add sugar.
In a jug, lightly wisk together melted butter, eggs, milk, lemon rind and juice. Mix this into the flour until JUSt combined.
Spoon batter into muffin tray to half fill.. Spoon the cream cheese mixture into muffin, then top up muffin with remaining batter.
Bake for 20 mins. Cool 5 mins then turn out.

Muesli muffins

Despite being the owner of numerous cookbooks, even one dedicated to muffins,  I googled 'breakfast muffins' in search of a recipe and found the following one at Taste.com: http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/13907/breakfast+museli+muffins

Of course I tweaked the recipe (as I always do), but the result was a quite wholesome substantial muffin that could be a replacement breakfast on the run.

Ingredients:

2 eggs

1 cup milk

1/4 cup light olive oil

2 tbs honey

2 cups muesli (I used half bircher muesli mix and half cereal mix)

1/2 cup of sultanas

1/2 cup chopped nuts eg pecans, walnuts

1 1/2 cups plain flour

1/2 tsp bicarb soda

1tsp baking powder

1 orange

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees C or 180 for fan forced. Line a 12 cup muffin pan with paper cases.

2. Whisk eggs, milk, oil and honey together. Combine muesli, flour, dried fruit, nuts,soda and baking powder in a bowl. Finely grate orange rind into dry ingredients. Juice orange and add 1/2 cup of the juice to egg mixture.

3. Pour wet ingredients into dry and mix together quickly using a wooden spoon until just combined. Mixture may be lumpy and does not have to be evenly mixed.

4. Spoon mixture into paper cases. Bake for 20 mins or until golden and cooked through. Cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely