Cinnamon Doughnut Muffins

About a year ago my mother in law bought me a muffin cookbook and started me on my muffin obsession. These are great. I love the cinnamon sugar topping. Mmm...


They have another feature I love in that all the ingredients are things you can keep on hand.

A word of advice, the first time I made these I thought I knew better and put more than a teaspoon of jelly inside each one. But then there was so much jelly inside that the muffins couldn’t stay together.

Muffins
1 ¾ cup flour
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
¾ cup milk
10 teaspoons jelly
10 muffin papers

Topping
¼ cup butter
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon

In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon. In a small bowl, combine sugar, oil, egg, and milk; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.

Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups half full (use an ice cream scoop!); place 1 teaspoon jam on top. Cover jam with enough batter to fill muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 350 for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Place melted butter in a small bowl; combine sugar and cinnamon in another bowl. Immediately after removing muffins from the oven, dip tops in butter, then in cinnamon-sugar. Serve warm. Yield:10 muffins.

Garlic Lime Chicken

Here is a recipe for Garlic Lime Chicken. It's super flavorful and really quick and easy to make. One thing I like about this recipe is that you can make as little or as much as you like. The recipe is intended to make 6 servings but if there are only two of you, you can just cook two servings. Sometimes it's good not to have leftovers.

When I make the spice mixture I make a quadruple batch and keep the extra in a little Tupperware container in my spice cabinet. That way I have it on hand all ready to go. It makes this recipe really easy to just whip up in about 15 minutes. I usually serve it with mashed potatoes. I like to get a bite of chicken along with a bite of potatoes together on my fork... MMMMM.

Garlic Lime Chicken
Serves 6

• 1 teaspoon salt
  
• 1 teaspoon pepper
  
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
  
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme
  
• 6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
  
• 2 tablespoons butter
  
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
  
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
  
• 4 tablespoons lime juice
  

In a bowl, mix together first 7 ingredients. Sprinkle mixture on both sides of chicken breasts.

In a skillet heat butter and olive oil together over medium high heat. Saute chicken until golden brown, about 5 minutes on each side. Turn down the heat, remove the chicken (keeping warm) and add the lime juice and chicken broth to the pan, whisking up the browned bits off the bottom of the skillet. Keep cooking until sauce has reduced slightly. Add chicken back to the pan to thoroughly coat and serve.