Bread Recipe ∞ Cinnamon-Pecan Muffins

Moist, delicious cinnamon muffins with pecans. What more could you ask for?

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ⅓ cup milk
• ⅓ cup vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• ½ cup chopped pecans
• ¼ cup chopped pecans
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Cooking Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
2. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt together in a large bowl.
3. Combine milk, vegetable oil, and egg in a separate bowl; beat with an electric mixer until thoroughly blended. Pour into flour mixture and mix until moist; do not overmix. Fold in pecans and transfer about 2/3 cup batter to each prepared muffin cup.
4. Bake muffins in the preheated oven for 8 minutes.
5. While muffins are baking, mix pecans, sugar, melted butter, and cinnamon for the topping in a small bowl. Remove muffins from the oven, top with pecan-butter mixture, and return to the oven. Bake until muffins are golden and tops spring back when lightly pressed, 7 to 12 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

• calories232.5
• carbohydrateContent27.7 g
• cholesterolContent17.3 mg
• fatContent12.8 g
• fiberContent1.3 g
• proteinContent3.2 g
• saturatedFatContent2.1 g
• sodiumContent196 mg
• sugarContent14.5 g