Post #179: "The Sun is Out!"-Cinnamon Doughnut Muffins

I must confess here and now that my favorite doughnut is a cake doughnut. I love cake doughnuts. We do not eat doughnuts much in our house. Don't get me wrong. If my hubby decides to go out and pick up a dozen, then I am not one to object.  I display my lack of objection usually by eating two of my favorite kind of blueberry cake doughnuts, just to prove my point.

Cake doughnuts were not always my favorite. I think my journey through the land of fried dough has been something like this:

1. ages 2-5, any doughnut
2. ages 5-9, doughnuts with sprinkles (like most kids)
3. ages 9-12, chocolate glazed doughnuts
4. ages 12 -16, eclairs
5. ages 16- to present, cake doughnuts

When Shelby of Life and Loves of Grumpy's Honeybunch featured this cinnamon doughnut muffin recipe from the Noble Pig site, I just knew I had to bake these babies this morning and add Cathy's wonderful Noble Pig site to my Google Reader. Check out both ladies' sites. You will be hooked like I am.

The menu this morning was cereal, fresh coffee, fresh cantaloupe, and these amazing muffins!

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These muffins are so easy to make. They also are better than doughnuts from a bakery or store! Much better. I used raspberry preserves to fill mine (refer to Cathy's recipe for step-by-step directions).  They are a combination of a cake doughnut (my favorite!) and a jelly doughnut wrapped up nicely in a cinnamon-sugar dusted muffin! I mean does life get any better than this?

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I made mine a little bigger than Cathy's recipe called for, filling my tins more than 3/4 full. I was able to make 7 big muffins. They were big and beautiful. Just like me at almost 31 weeks of pregnancy!


Here is a close-up of one of the TWO muffins I ate.

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Okay, one and a half. The other half went missing. Wonder where it went...

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A mystery.