Breakfast puffs

15 Servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
cupShortening
½cupSugar
1Egg
cupAll-purpose flour*
teaspoonBaking powder
½teaspoonSalt
¼teaspoonGround nutmeg
½cupMilk
½cupSugar
1teaspoonGround cinnamon
½cupMargarine or butter; melted

Directions

Heat oven to 350-F. Grease 15 muffin cups, 2½ x 11/4 inches. Mix shortening, ½ cup sugar and the egg. Stir in flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg alternately with milk. Fill muffin cups about two-thirds full.

Bake until golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Mix ½ cup sugar and the cinnamon. Immediately after baking, roll puffs in melted margarine, then in sugar-cinnamon mixture.

*If using self-rising flour, omit baking powder and salt.

Recipe by: Betty Crocker's Best of Baking Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #1002 by "M. Hicks" <nitro_ii@...> on Jan 11, 1998