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Posted by annie1992 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 20, 13 at 22:52
Yum, those look delicious. They're reminiscent of a recipe that was a huge hit here a few years ago from Sol. She called them "Dirt Bombs" and they had cardamom. I went and bought cardamom on purpose to make them and they were so worth it but looking at your recipe I'm betting I could have just left it out. Ashley told me they tasted a bit like chai....
Dirt Bombs
Yields: 12 muffins*

3 cups AP flour, minus 3 tablespoons
1 tablespoon baking powder
ý teaspoon salt
ý teaspoon ground nutmeg
ü teaspoon ground cardamon
þ cup (1 ý sticks) unsalted butter
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup whole milk **

Topping ***

þ cups unsalted butter, melted
ý cup granulated sugar
1 ý teaspoons ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 400ú F. Place the rack in the center position. Generously grease a 12-cup standard muffin pan.

Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cardamon into a mixing bowl. In another bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Scrape the bowl down half way through. Mix in the eggs. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk in two additions, mixing gently by hand to incorporate all the flour. The batter will be on the stiff side, but airy. DonâÂÂt over mix or beat the batter as this will make the muffins tough. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, without smoothing the tops. Bake for about 25 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. As soon as the muffins are cool enough to handle, turn them out onto a wire rack.

Add the melted butter to a bowl. In another bowl, mix the sugar and cinnamon.
Dip the muffins (top, sides and bottom) in the butter, using a pastry brush -if necessary- to cover areas not buttered by dipping. Immediately roll the muffins in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Serve warm or at room temperature.

*I've made this twice, and both times, this recipe has yielded 16 muffins instead of 12.
**I substituted whole buttermilk for whole milk because I always have it on hand and prefer it for baking.
*** The amounts listed for the sugar and cinnamon are not quite enough to coat all the muffins, so I recommend you double it.

Annie

So happy to see the Dirt Bombs on the right. I'm also glad that picture of compost is gone. That was revolting. Compost is a good thing, but not so pretty to look at. Is Sol still coming around?

You can find the recipe in Lora Brody's The Cape Cod Table, page 35!

Dedtired, do you wanna see a picture of my composting worms at work??? That would be a sight! LOL

Another_Linda, my browser has been checked to UTF-8 all along. I know when people c/p recipes, the fractions get bulleted, or otherwise unreadable. That's why I manually type in the fractions.

This post was edited by jasdip on Wed, Mar 5, 14 at 9:13