Fresh strawberry cinnamon muffins. Think of a cinnamon muffin with little bits of strawberry flavor topped with some cinnamon sugar. A great way to start the day.
Based on an allrecipe.com recipe, I added some cinnamon and vanilla to kick up the taste of the muffin. Then sprinkle with a little cinnamon sugar and you have a taste treat. Not much work to surprise the family.
Rating
A nice solid four but not as much strawberry pop as I was hoping for. A 4 from my wife also.
Notes: the original recipe would have been a bit bland. The comments had some suggestions and the most common were adding some cinnamon and vanilla to the muffin. I took it one step further with a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar that was needed.
The strawberries need to be a bit smaller than in my picture. The are moist and will create pockets otherwise.
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Preheat oven to 375 conventional. Prep a regular muffin pan with paper muffin liners for 12 muffins.
Clean and chop 1 cup strawberries. Combine wet: 1/4 cup vegetable oil, 1/2 cup milk, one egg and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.
The strawberries here are a little big. Make the pieces about half this size.
Combine dry: 1 3/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup sugar, one tablespoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Add the chopped strawberries to the dry and stir to coat.
In a small bowl mix one tablespoon sugar with 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.
Add the wet to dry and mix.
Divide it 12 standard size muffin cups. Fill about 2/3 full. Add 1/4 teaspoon of the sugar/cinnamon mixture to the top.
Bake until toothpick comes out clean. About 20 minutes. Move to cooling rack and cool for 10 minutes before serving.
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Strawberry Cinnamon Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup strawberries
Wet
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Dry
- 1 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Topping
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 conventional.
- Clean and chop 1 cup strawberries.
- Combine wet: 1/4 cup vegetable oil, 1/2 cup milk, one egg and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.
- Combine dry: 1 3/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup sugar, one tablespoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.
- Add the chopped strawberries to the dry and stir to coat.
- In a small bowl mix one tablespoon sugar with 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.
- Add the wet to dry and mix.
- Divide it 12 standard size muffin cups. Fill about 2/3 full. Add 1/4 teaspoon of the sugar/cinnamon mixture to the top.
- Bake until toothpick comes out clean. About 20 minutes.
- Move to cooling rack and cool for 10 minutes before serving.
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Nutrition is for one serving. Number of servings is stated above and is my estimate of normal serving size for this recipe.
All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
If you like this recipe or find it useful, the pleasure of a nice 4 or 5 rating would be greatly appreciated.
LCS
July 26, 2014 at 2:59 pmI just made these. Simple, yet delicious! Your instructions were so easy to follow that I was able to include my 3 year old in the measuring/mixing process. Thank you!
bill @thewoksoflife
May 10, 2014 at 6:40 amNever thought about using fresh strawberries for muffins. Have to try this while the strawberries are in season. Thanks for sharing! Oops – correcting some typos
DrDan
May 10, 2014 at 3:26 pmIt was new to me also but seemed like a good idea… I always up for a good muffin.
Thanks for the comment
DrDan
Judy Uhl
April 21, 2014 at 1:25 pmSo, the chopped strawberries should be smaller?
DrDan
April 21, 2014 at 10:38 pmI feel they should. The original recipe was reproduced many places and nobody was very specific (all just said chopped). A couple had a few pictures so I did it somewhat like them. But the strawberries have a lot of moisture and I thing produced some steam pockets. Smaller (maybe 1/2 inch max) would be better.
Dan