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One Bowl Cinnamon Sugar Beer Muffins

One Bowl Cinnamon Sugar Beer Muffins

One Bowl Cinnamon Sugar Beer Muffins

There is a feeling in the depths of winter that the quiet will swallow you whole if you don’t keep moving. As if you’d just be that misplaced bracelet that never gets found, disappearing behind furniture and then just ceasing to exist.

I’m not used to this. Born and grown in California, the winter was hardly different from the summer other than a lower flow of tourist, grabbing a sweater for Cinespia, and the absence of Vin Scully’s voice. You’d have to stop and think, just for a second, when you wanted to reference what season you were in. Like being on a vacation where the actual days of the week lose meaning and you have to stop to figure out if it’s Tuesday or Wednesday. Winter just meant a different set of activities, not an entirely different wardrobe and lifestyle.

Winters up North are different. There is a beauty in those clear crisp days when it feels like your voice and the sound of your footsteps on wet pavement will travel forever. The perpetually dewy trees, the misty morning fog, the light and unobtrusive snow fall, even the rain. It’s all majestic in a way that feels intensely calming. What they don’t tell you, when you plan to move a thousand miles North, is that it’s dark. Really dark. The cloud cover mid-day that blocks the sunlight from ever hitting the grass out front, and the sun finally calling it quits around 4PM.

Baking has become a winter activity. It fits in the culture of this newly acquired season in a way that makes me appreciate it so much more than the sun filled, warm day baking I used to do. Just the smell and the warmth from the oven seems like a missing piece of furniture finally being put back into place . Spring is on it’s way, and I’ve a few trips planned between now and then, but for the next few months I’ll be warming the days with baked goods.

One Bowl Cinnamon Sugar Beer Muffins

One Bowl Cinnamon Sugar Beer Muffins

Ingredients
  

For the muffins:

  • 2 cups 248g all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp 4g baking powder
  • 1 tsp 4g baking soda
  • 3/4 cup 150g granulated sugar
  • ½ tsp 3g salt
  • ½ tsp 2g cinnamon
  • 1 tsp 4g vanilla extract
  • 2/3 cup 150g wheat beer
  • 1/3 cup 75g whole milk
  • 2 large eggs

For the topping:

  • 2 tbs 15g cinnamon
  • ¼ cup 50g granulated sugar
  • 3 tbs 42g butter, melted

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • In a large bowl stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt and cinnamon.
  • Make a well in the center, add the vanilla, wheat beer, milk, and eggs. Stir until just combined.
  • Line muffin tin with muffin papers, spray lightly with cooking spray.
  • Place the muffins in the oven, lower temperature to 325. Bake for 20-22 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched. Allow to cool.
  • Stir together the cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl.
  • Dip the muffin tops in melted butter, then roll gently in the cinnamon sugar mixture.

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Mary-Clay | The Open Oven January 13, 2016 um 12:05 pm

Beer in breakfast muffins! I love it and I want it. Thanks for sharing.

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Nicole January 13, 2016 um 1:23 pm

These look wonderful! Will be making them ASAP as baking is definitely the thing to do on these dark Seattle winter days. Really love the way you describe winter here too, I couldn’t agree more!

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Katrina January 13, 2016 um 1:47 pm

Baking is definitely a winter activity! I’m seeing more baked goods being brought into the office than ever right now. I’ll have to up the game with these…seriously, coming in to work to see a plate of these beauties will make everyone’s day!

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Tori January 14, 2016 um 1:19 am

These look crazy delish, Jackie! I’m so craving one right now!

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helen smith January 14, 2016 um 5:27 am

these look good.can you use regular beer with this receipe. also can you buy just one bottle of wheat beer and would that be in a liquor store,grocery etc.

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Jackie January 14, 2016 um 8:55 am

What do you mean by regular beer? A macro pale lager? That will work fine. And you can usually buy a bomber of wheat beer easily, but buying one bottle is usually OK at larger grocery stores.

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Kelley January 14, 2016 um 9:06 am

Those of us in Colorado never buy beer at the grocery store!

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Jackie January 14, 2016 um 9:19 am

The grocery stores in Seattle have some pretty awesome local craft beer. I really like that I now have the option to buy something I like at the store when I can’t get to a bottle shop. Hope more shelves are devoted to craft beer and less to macro beer in the future, but that won’t happen unless consumers buy it up.

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Nathalie February 2, 2016 um 1:26 pm

You have such a revolutionary blog! Mmmm the pictures and recipes! I like so much to come back and see what is here on offer even I never drink beer but I really really want to add it to my cooking.

http://potsofsmiles.blogspot.co.uk/
xx

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