Cinnamon Sugar Munchkin Muffins

My fabulous neighbor, Colleen, has invited us to the annual "neighborhood game", where she gets game passes to the BC Football game.  Tomorrow there is plans for tailgating before the early afternoon game.  Wanting to come up with something to contribute to the festivities, I turned to Pinterest.  I had pinned this recipe off a blog a few weeks back.  When I pinned it, I thought it said "French Toast Muffins", but it really said "French Breakfast Muffins".  Reading through it, the recipe seemed relatively easy, but also seeing the comments by the blogger and others, it seemed like an "anytime" type of treat, and someone referred to it as a "cinnamon sugar donut", so I am calling it a "Cinnamon Sugar Muffin".  Might I say, it reminds me of bite-sized bits of Monkey Bread.  I hope they will taste just as good tomorrow!  GO EAGLES!

• 2/3 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs (preferably room temperature)
• 3 cups flour
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• ½ tsp. nutmeg
• 1 cup milk

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F. 
2. In a medium-large bowl, sift together all dry ingredients. 
3. Add wet ingredients and stir just until combined, but still a bit lumpy. Do NOT overmix; overmixing will ruin the texture of the finished muffins. Also? Don't overmix the batter. Finally, don't overmix. 
4. Scoop batter into muffin tins that have sprayed with cooking spray. 
5. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until they just start to turn a bit golden at the edges.

Topping:

• 1½ cup sugar
• 3 tsp. cinnamon  
• 1-1½ cup butter, melted

 DIRECTIONS

1. For the topping, mix sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. 
2. Place melted butter in another small bowl. 
3. Dip the warm muffins in melted butter (you can dip just the top, but it's even tastier to dip the whole muffin!), then dip/roll the muffin in cinnamon sugar. 
4. If there is left-over topping, the extra topping can be used for dipping, while eating the muffins.

Yields:

If you use a large scoop, you can get 8 medium-large muffins out of this batter; you could get 10-12 muffins by distributing the batter a little less generously.

If you use a small scoop, you can get at least 48 mini muffins 
(This is what I did -- picture above)

Adapted from Velvet Lava Cafe blog