Doughnut muffins.....

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 ½ tsp baking power
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• Zest of ½ an orange
• ¼ cup plus 1 tbs vegetable oil
• ¾ cup plus 2 tbs buttermilk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• For topping:
• 4 tbs butter, melted
• ½ cup sugar, for rolling
• 1 tbs cinnamon, for rolling

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease a muffin tin with cooking spray or vegetable oil.
• In a large bowl, beat together sugar and egg until light in color. Add in all the vegetable oil, all the buttermilk, vanilla extract and mix well.
• In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, orange zest, cinnamon and nutmeg; add this to the wet mixture.Divide batter evenly into 12 muffin cups, filling each about 3/4 full.Bake for 15-18 minutes, until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean.
• While muffins are baking, melt butter in one bowl and in another bowl pour in the ½ cup sugar, plus 1tbs cinnamon.
• When muffins are done, take muffin one by one and brush top of muffin with melted butter then dip into cinnamon sugar mixture. Cool on a wire rack.Makes 12 muffins.