French Breakfast Puffs are light and fluffy muffins rolled in butter and then dipped in cinnamon and sugar. These donut like muffins are the best breakfast or brunch treat!
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My mom is seriously the best. She spoiled my siblings and I with the most delicious homemade treats including these French Breakfast Puffs. Honestly these were my favorite muffins growing up. You just can’t beat a tender fluffy muffin rolled in melted butter and cinnamon and sugar. They’re good at room temperature but eat them fresh out of the oven an you won’t be able to resist going back for seconds.
How to Make French Breakfast Puffs:
The first step is to mix the dry ingredients together so that everything, especially the leavening agents, are properly distributed. Then you cream the butter, sugar, and eggs together and add in the dry ingredients to it a little at a time, adding the milk in between adding the dry ingredients.
You’ll then fill the muffin liners and bake. I find using a trigger cookie scoop makes this process way faster, easier, and less messy.
Once the muffins come out of the oven and are cool enough to handle, take them out of the liners and roll in melted butter. Then roll them in a bowl of cinnamon and sugar. Now it’s time to enjoy! And thoroughly enjoy them, you will!
Tools used to make French Breakfast Puffs:
Trigger Ice Cream Scoop– This makes filling muffins tins so much faster, easier, and cleaner. Plus, adds the perfect amount of batter to the well.
Muffin/Cupcake Tin– Every kitchen needs a muffin tin. This is my favorite. I use it for cupcakes, muffins, mini frittatas….
Rubber Bottom Mixing Bowls– The rubber handle and bottom of these bowls makes them the perfect mixing bowls. I use them all the time from mixing pancake batter to pie dough to cake batter.
More Muffin Recipes to try:
- Nutella Swirl Muffins
- Strawberry Glazed Muffins
- Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Cinnamon Roll Muffins
French Breakfast Puffs
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 5 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
For Sugar Coating:
- 5 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line muffin tin with foil or paper baking cups.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix softened butter, sugar, and egg. Add in the dry ingredients a little at a time alternately with the milk.
- Once the mixture is well blended, spoon into lined muffin tin and bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
For Sugar Coating:
- In a small bowl, mix sugar and cinnamon together. Melt butter in a separate bowl.
- Once the muffins are cool enough to handle, gently remove the baking cup from each muffin.
- Roll each muffin in the melted butter and then cinnamon/sugar. Set muffins back in baking cups.
Recipe Source: RaeJean Eisenhauer
Ranisa Brletich
February 28, 2014 at 9:08 amLove these! Make them occasionally.
Paige
February 28, 2014 at 12:06 pmThese look super easy and delicious! I bet Derek would love them since he served his mission in France!
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Grace Weston
February 28, 2014 at 4:43 pmI made these for breakfast this morning and everyone loved them. My favorite part is the cinnamon sugar topping. They were so good!
– Grace
Melanie
February 28, 2014 at 4:51 pmAwesome Grace! I’m glad your family liked them. The cinnamon sugar topping is definitely my favorite part too!
Talisha
March 1, 2014 at 12:43 pmMitch has been talking about these all weekend!! Can’t wait to make them 🙂
Melanie
March 1, 2014 at 2:23 pmHahaha! Nick mentioned that Mitch really wanted to make them. Enjoy! 🙂
Camille
March 5, 2014 at 10:32 amWe had a little extra time for breakfast this morning so I tried these. Very yummy! My oldest said, “These are great. Next time put in a cream filling then they’d be even more awesome.” 🙂
Melanie
March 5, 2014 at 10:58 amHahaha! That’s a great idea!!! I’m sure my husband would love cream in them too. Glad your family enjoyed them!
Julie @ Lovely Little Kitchen
April 4, 2014 at 8:04 pmSorry about your finger. These look so cute and yummy. Pinning to try soon!
Melanie
April 4, 2014 at 8:21 pmThanks Julie!
Betty Ferguson
March 31, 2018 at 12:32 pmHi Melanie,
The muffins look really good.I’m making them tomorrow.I do have one question,do you mix the milk with the
Softened butter,sugar and egg then add the dry ingredients.The post said to add dry ingredients to milk but
Not sure if you do that,then add sugar egg and butter.Thanks.
Melanie
March 31, 2018 at 10:39 pmBetty, Sorry that was confusing. I edited it to make it more clear. You’re adding the flour and the milk to the butter mixture, alternating adding a little of each.