Recipe: Delicious Churro Muffins

Churro Muffins. Churro Muffins transform a sweet cinnamon Mexican dessert into bite-sized mini muffins that are baked instead of fried! Have you ever been to a Mexican restaurant and ordered Churros for dessert? You know the fluted fried pastry dough covered in cinnamon sugar.

Divide batter between greased muffin tin cups. In a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon. Based on Spain's deep-fried doughnuts, these muffins are outrageously good, without getting out the fryers! You can have Churro Muffins using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Churro Muffins

1. You need of white sugar.
2. You need of butter melted.
3. You need of milk (I use Silk Almond).
4. Prepare of vanilla.
5. It's of all-purpose flour.
6. Prepare of baking powder.
7. Prepare of salt (I use pink Himalayan salt).
8. It's of Churro Cinnamon Topping:.
9. Prepare of butter melted.
10. It's of sugar.
11. It's of cinnamon.

Rolling the light muffins in butter and cinnamon sugar while they are still warm gives them the taste of being fried. They taste exactly like the real thing! Take each half and fold the smooth part of the dough inward to create a spiral shape. Place the spirals in a muffin tin and brush the tops with egg wash.

Churro Muffins instructions

1. Pre heat oven to 375 degrees F. Coat a 24 mini-muffin pan with cooking spray..
2. Mix 1/2 cup sugar and 1/4 cup butter in a large bowl. Stir in the milk and vanilla, then mix in the flour, baking powder, and salt until just combined. Fill the prepared mini muffin cups about half full. (I used a cookie scoop for the muffin fill.).
3. Bake the preheated oven until the top of the muffins are lightly golden, 15 to 20 minutes..
4. While muffins are baking, place 1/4 cup of melted butter in a small bowl. In a separate bowl, combine 1/2 cup of sugar and cinnamon..
5. Turn muffin tin pan over to release the muffins on a plate or cooling rack..
6. Dip each muffin in the melted butter, and roll in the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Let cool and serve..

Combine the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Fill the prepared mini muffin cups about half full. These itsy bitsy teeny weeny homemade churros bites - churros muffins are coated in cinnamon sugar and are kind of like a cross between a muffin and a donut hole. One huge difference is these are baked in Instant- pot and not fried. It's a perfect way to use the egg bite molds addon for Instant Pot.