Straightforward Cinnamon Sugar Espresso Cake Truffles ~ Moist, Appetizing & Freezer Friendly

I found this wonderful recipe on Tasty Kitchen . It used to be posted by Lemanda. If I ever met Lemanda, I’d reciprocate by handing her a plate of my decadent chocolate sea salt brownies for sharing this recipe with us. These blond beauties are unbelievable. They’ve obtained rave opinions over at Tasty Kitchen too. What I like about them is how easy and immediate they whip up. Just a few traditional ingredients work their magic to compose heat-cinnamon- sugared-bliss.


These desserts remind me of snickerdoodle cookies, simplest I admire these better. I highly recommend utilizing honest quality cinnamon and crunchy, molasses-like Sugar In The Raw.

Be warned. They’re moist, homey and extremely arduous to withstand. Brew some espresso and bake some nowadays!


(minimally adapted from Lemanda’s Recipe posted on Tasty Kitchen)

Makes 12 desserts

Some Notes:

Get certain you don’t over bake these desserts. They don’t brown once they’re completed. They proceed to be blond in coloration. They must restful rob about 15-18 minutes to cook dinner. In my oven they rob 17 minutes.

Don’t comprise the muffin tins the total manner to the tip and also you could restful pause up with 12 desserts.

Coat the tops of every muffin in a combination of frequent white sugar and natural Sugar In The Raw. Sugar within the Raw is found in most supermarkets. The sugar crystals aren’t stripped of any coloration or flavor, giving it a natural taste. It’s now not bleached or refined both. The distinctive taste comes from the molasses that naturally occurs within the crystals. It’s very fair honest on these desserts. Will possess to you’re feeling decadent, that you just would be in a position to well be in a situation to coat the total muffin within the cinnamon sugar mixture.

I use Vietnamese cinnamon on this recipe too. Vietnamese cinnamon is the strongest, richest, and sweetest cinnamon spherical. For aged cinnamon recipes equivalent to gooey cinnamon rolls, the shiny flavor of Vietnamese cinnamon in spite of all the pieces shines. It is a long way so strong, that in most recipes it must be decrease motivate by about a third, nonetheless it is ultimate former elephantine strength in any recipe where cinnamon is the major scrumptious flavor, like this one. I salvage it at Penzey’s Spices. The cinnamon-sugar topping is the star right here. So trot for the top likely cinnamon yow will stumble on. Will possess to you don’t are attempting to splurge on the esteem stuff, frequent cinnamon works honest realizing too. Nonetheless again, I highly recommend you peep out Vietnamese cinnamon for this recipe and your complete baked goods. It’s furthermore unbelievable on French toast and oatmeal. Belief me, that you just would be in a position to well like Vietnamese cinnamon.

These desserts are freezer pleasant. For breakfast or a snack on the trot, that you just would be in a position to well be in a situation to rob them straight from the freezer and dad them within the microwave for about a seconds. They’re furthermore scrumptious heat from the oven. Journey! —Vintage Kitchen

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 levels

   Grease muffin tin

   Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon in a bowl.

   Mix the oil, white sugar, egg, vanilla extract and milk in but some other bowl.

   Add the wet ingredients to the dry and chase to combine. Don’t over-mix.

   Pour batter into the challenging muffin tin and bake for roughly 15-18 minutes. The desserts will stay blond in coloration when cooked.

   The topping: Because the desserts are baking, melt the butter within the microwave. Mix the white sugar, the Sugar In The Raw, a pinch of salt and 1/2 tablespoon of Vietnamese cinnamon in a bowl. Whereas they’re restful hot, cast off the desserts from the pan. Dunk the tops of the desserts within the melted butter after which dip into and coat the tops with the cinnamon sugar mixture. Reduction sprinkled with more cinnamon on top. Journey!